Rail profile
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The rail profile is the cross-sectional shape of a rail as installed on a railway or railroad, perpendicular to its length.
Rail from 1896 showing manufacturer's name and specification impressed into the web of rail during rolling
Early rails in the United States (not to scale)
Section of the Translohr guidance rail (during the Clermont-Ferrand installation in 2006)
Fishbelly edge rails laid on stone blocks on the Cromford and High Peak Railway
Railway track
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Railway track or railroad track, also known as permanent way or "P way", is the structure on a railway consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers and ballast, plus the underlying subgrade. It enable
Rail profile
…The rail profile is the cross-sectional shape of a rail as installed on a railway or railroad, perpendicular to its length. Early rails were made of wood, cast iron or wrought iron. All modern rails are hot…
Common contemporary practice in track construction, featuring well-drained ballast spread level with the tops of concrete sleepers/crossties – Australian National Railways, ca 1982
Traditional railway track showing ballast, sleepers, and rail fixings
Guideway of the Light Rail Transit system, Singapore, on which rubber-tyred automated people-mover vehicles operate
Slab track with flexible noise-reducing rail fixings, built by German company Max Bögl, on the Nürnberg–Ingolstadt high-speed line