Explore Rail through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like track or railroad. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Rail in a sentence
Related words
Rail meaning
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
Synonyms of Rail
Using Rail
- The main meaning on this page is: A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing. | The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad. | A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- Useful related words include: bar, complain, inveigh, wader.
- In the example corpus, rail often appears in combinations such as: the rail, light rail, rail and.
Example sentences (20)
The ONS said it was also changing the data used to calculate rail fares, switching from the Office for Rail and Road’s rail fares index to the Rail Delivery Group, which uses more than 30 million price points in producing the index.
All lines are light rail except the A, a commuter rail line. citation FasTracks is a light rail/bus/rail expansion project approved by voters in 2004 which will serve neighboring suburbs and communities.
To maximize the signal range modern op-amps commonly have rail-to-rail output (the output signal can range from the lowest supply voltage to the highest) and sometimes rail-to-rail inputs.
Rail Baltic (also known as Rail Baltica) will connect Estonia with its southern neighbors and Central Europe by rail.
The Russian rail market is segmented into freight rail and passenger rail.
Network Rail, the UK’s rail infrastructure manager, says this huge shake-up of the rail timetable is partly down to an ‘unprecedented’ decline in coal traffic and dips in iron and steel demand.
Bipolar rail-to-rail comparators have a common-emitter output that produces a small voltage drop between the output and each rail.
Columbus is now the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. without either a local rail or intercity rail connection (Phoenix opened a light-rail system in 2008, but still lacks an Amtrak connection.
Freight rail is dominated by the founding cross-country Canadian National Railway and CP Rail companies, which during the 1990s sold many short rail lines from their vast network to private companies operating mostly in the south.
Hong Kong MTR 's East Rail Line and West Rail Line were built to commuter rail standards but are operated like a metro system.
Japanese commuter rail also tends to be heavily interlined with subway lines, with commuter rail trains continuing into the subway network, and then out onto different commuter rail systems on the other side of the city.
Regional rail does not exist in this sense in the United States, so the term "regional rail" has become synonymous with commuter rail there, although the two are more clearly defined in Europe.
Since all the previous LO routes were operated by National Rail franchise Silverlink until November 2007, they have continued to be shown in the National Rail timetable and are still considered to be a part of National Rail.
There are some scheduled passenger services on their own privately managed, non-Network Rail lines, for example Heathrow Express which also partly runs on Network Rail track and the London Underground also overlaps with Network Rail in places.
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Andy Bagnall, chief executive of industry body Rail Partners, described Mr Harper’s speech as “a needed push to reinvigorate rail reform, which is essential for passengers and freight customers as well as for the taxpayer and the wider economy”.
A Network Rail spokesman said: “Managing the closure area between Ferry Hinksey Road and the rail bridge is a very complex and challenging operation.
A new 12th Street Red/Orange Line light rail station will also be built to facilitate transfers between the Silver Line and the existing light rail corridor.
A new rail freight facility at the company's bottling plant in Blackford was completed and commissioned, meaning that 40% of all production is now transported by rail.
As part of a career spanning almost 40 years with British Rail, Thomas had carried out a number of roles, including that of a trade apprentice, then an apprentice Wheelwright, before working as a qualified Wheelwright at British Rail’s Earlestown site.
Common combinations with rail
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the rail 35×
- light rail 30×
- rail and 20×
- rail line 19×
- metro rail 17×
- commuter rail 16×
- network rail 16×
- of rail 16×
- high-speed rail 10×
- rail safety 8×