Rail or rails may refer to:
Rail transport
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Rail transport and related matters
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Rail (rail transport) or railway lines, the running surface of a railway
Arts and media
Film
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''Rails'' (film), a 1929 Italian film by Mario Camerini
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''Rail'' (1967 film), a film by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films
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''Thodari'' () is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language action-romance film co produced, written and directed by Prabhu Solomon. It stars Dhanush and Keerthy Suresh, with D. Imman composing the film's music. Set on an express train, ''Thodari'' follow ...
'' or ''Rail'', a Tamil-language film and its Telugu dub
Magazines
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''Rail'' (magazine), a British rail transport periodical
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''Rails'' (magazine), a former New Zealand based rail transport periodical
Other arts
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The Rails
The Rails is a folk rock band from London, England, composed of husband and wife James Walbourne and Kami Thompson. Thompson and Walbourne first met during the recording sessions for ''Versatile Heart'' by Thompson's mother Linda Thompson in 2 ...
, a British folk-rock band
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Rail (theater) or batten, a pipe from which lighting, scenery, or curtains are hung
Technology
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Rails framework
Ruby on Rails (simplified as Rails) is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby under the MIT License. Rails is a model–view–controller (MVC) framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service, and web ...
or Ruby on Rails, a web application framework
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Rail system (firearms)
Rail systems on firearms are straight mounting brackets (usually made of strips of metal or polymer) on the gun's receiver, handguard or fore-end stock to allow sliding/variable-position attachment of Iron sights, Scopes , Holographic Sig ...
, a mounting system for firearm attachments
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Front engine dragster
The front-engine dragster is a type of racing car purposely built for drag racing. Commonly known as a "rail", "digger", or "slingshot", it is now considered obsolete, and is used only in nostalgia drag racing. Wheelbases ranged from .
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*Runway alignment indicator lights, a configuration of an
approach lighting system
An approach lighting system (ALS) is a lighting system installed on the approach end of an airport runway and consisting of a series of lightbars, strobe lights, or a combination of the two that extends outward from the runway end. ALS usually ...
*Rule Augmented Interconnect Layout, a specification for expressing guidelines for printed circuit boards; companion to the
Input/output Buffer Information Specification
Other uses
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Rail (bird), a family of birds
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Rail (name)
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Rail, Missouri, a ghost town in the United States
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Rail drink, an alcoholic beverage ordered with house liquors
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*Rail, a line of
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See also
*Curtain rail, a rail from which
curtain
A curtain is a piece of cloth or other material intended to block or obscure light, air drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain), water. A curtain is also the movable screen or drape in a theatre that separates the stage from the auditorium ...
s are hung
*Door rails, a horizontal outside member on a door or in a
frame and panel
Frame and panel construction, also called rail and stile, is a woodworking technique often used in the making of doors, wainscoting, and other decorative features for cabinets, furniture, and homes. The basic idea is to capture a 'floating' pane ...
construction
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Guard rail, for protective separation
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Hand rail
A handrail is a rail that is designed to be grasped by the hand so as to provide safety or support. In Britain, handrails are referred to as banisters. Handrails are usually used to provide support for body or to hold clothings in a bathroom or ...
, for physical support, such as on stairways and steps
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Picatinny rail, a bracket used on some firearms as a mounting platform
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Power supply rail or voltage rail, a single voltage provided by a power supply unit
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Rail profile, the cross sectional shape of a railway rail
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Railing (disambiguation)
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Railway (disambiguation)
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Railways (disambiguation)
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Rayl (disambiguation)
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Riding a rail
Riding the rail (also called being "run out of town on a rail") was a punishment most prevalent in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries in which an offender was made to straddle a fence rail held on the shoulders of two or more beare ...
or being run out of town on a rail
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Third rail, a method of providing electric power to a railway train
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