Rail (Disambiguation) Information
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Rail or rails may refer to:
- Railway transportation
- A generic term for railroads, railways, rail transport, and related matters
- Rail tracks, or railway lines, the running surface of a railway
- Rail profile, the cross sectional shape of a railway rail
- Third rail, a method of providing electric power to a railway train
- Conductor rail, a structural steel surface fitted alongside a rail track to provide electrical power to the train
- Science, technology, biology, and medicine
- Picatinny rail, a bracket used on some firearms in order to provide a standardized mounting platform for telescopic sights and other accessories
- Rails or Rallidae, a family of birds which includes crakes, coots, and gallinules
- Railing, a slang term for insufflation (medicine), whereby a substance, such as cocaine, is inhaled for recreational effects
- Structural
- Guard rail, for protective separation of persons (including those in vehicles) from dangerous places or situations
- Hand rail, for physical support, such as on stairways and steps
- Theatre rail, see batten (theater), from which lighting fixtures, theatrical scenery, tabs or curtains may be hung
- Curtain rail, see curtain, from which curtains are hung
- Door rails, see frame and panel, a horizontal outside member on a door or in a frame and panel construction
- Electrical engineering
- Internal combustion engines
- Other users
- Crayon Rails, the generic term for a board game which recreates the building of railroads via the use of crayons
- Rail (1967 short film), made by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films
- An archaic term for sexual intercourse
- Ruby on Rails, often shortened to "Rails" or "RoR", is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language
- RAIL (magazine), a magazine on the subject of current rail transport in the United Kingdom
- Rural Appalachian Improvement League (RAIL), a non-profit corporation based in Mullens, West Virginia, USA
- See also
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