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Rail

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Rail or rails may refer to:

Rail transport

  • Rail transport and related matters
  • Rail (rail transport) or railway lines, the running surface of a railway

Film

  • Rails (film), a 1929 Italian film by Mario Camerini
  • Rail (1967 film), a film by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films
  • Mirattu or Rail, a Tamil-language film and its Telugu dub

Magazines

  • Rail (magazine), a British rail transport periodical
  • Rails (magazine), a former New Zealand based rail transport periodical

Other uses

  • Rail (bird), a family of birds
  • Rail (name)
  • Rail (theater) or batten
  • The Rails, a British folk-rock band
  • Rail, Missouri, a ghost town in the United States
  • Rail drink, an alcoholic beverage ordered with house liquors
  • Rails framework or Ruby on Rails, a web application framework
  • Rail system (firearms), a mounting system for firearm attachments
  • Rural Appalachian Improvement League, an American non-profit organisation
  • Front engine dragster or rail
  • Runway alignment indicator lights or RAIL, a configuration of an approach lighting system
  • Rail, a line of cocaine
  • RAIL (Rule Augmented Interconnect Layout), a specification for electronic expression of timing and layout guidelines for printed circuit boards; a companion to the Input/output Buffer Information Specification

See also

  • Curtain rail, a rail from which curtains are hung
  • Door rails, a horizontal outside member on a door or in a frame and panel construction
  • Guard rail, for protective separation
  • Hand rail, for physical support, such as on stairways and steps
  • Picatinny rail, a bracket used on some firearms as a mounting platform
  • Power supply rail or voltage rail, a single voltage provided by a power supply unit
  • Rail profile, the cross sectional shape of a railway rail
  • Railing (disambiguation)
  • Railway (disambiguation)
  • Railways (disambiguation)
  • Rayl (disambiguation)
  • Riding a rail or being run out of town on a rail
  • Third rail, a method of providing electric power to a railway train
  • All pages with titles beginning with Rail
  • All pages with titles containing rail
  • All pages with titles containing railway or railways
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