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Guard rails at Diêu Trì railway station, Vietnam This curved track in Myanmar, near Pekon, includes a guard rail on the inside rail of the curve. In rail transport, guard rails or check rails are rails used in the construction of the track, placed parallel to regular running rail to keep the wheels of rolling stock in alignment to prevent derailment.
A guard rail is a protective boundary feature. Guard rail or guardrail may also refer to: Railroad guard rails (otherwise known as check rails), installed parallel to trackbed rails, for railway safety; RC-12 Guardrail, a U.S. Army intelligence-gathering aircraft based on the C-12 Huron
Traffic barrier with a pedestrian guardrail behind it. Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, [1] in Britain as crash barriers, [2] and in auto racing as Armco barriers [3]) keep vehicles within their roadway and prevent them from colliding with dangerous obstacles such as boulders, sign supports, trees, bridge abutments, buildings, walls, and large storm drains ...
Donald Trump is returning to the White House without many of the guardrails of his first term.
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An example of a common residential guard rail (US) handrail (Brit.) is a wood railing around a deck or patio. In the US this is typically built on-site from pressure treated lumber thus featuring a simplistic design of vertical baluster spaced every 3.5 inches (8.9 cm) demonstrating compliance with Building Codes (Standards).
Network Rail said the line would be closed for "at least another week", but added that the planned engineering work is running on schedule. The new track will allow trains to run to the reinstated ...
During the closure, 50 sheet piles (8m (26.2ft) long sheets of metal) and a 30m (98.4ft) section of soil nails (steel rods) were installed to help underpin the line. Network Rail Wessex's Project ...