Sentence examples for a section of rail from inspiring English sources

The train, travelling at more than 100mph, derailed after passing over a section of rail which then fractured.

In the morning, a section of rail on the Babylon branch of the Long Island Rail Road near Amityville snapped, said a spokesman for the agency, Brian Dolan.

The agency said late Saturday afternoon that its investigators had found a section of rail on the eastbound track "that was fractured at a rail joint".

While the machine was at work in Queens, a worker, far left, guided a section of rail onto new ties, while Web Merrithew manned a control panel that guided new ties along a conveyer belt to the bed.

Transit officials say they now believe that a section of rail that pierced the bottom of a subway car on Monday was a damaged piece that had been taken out of service and was sitting on the track bed for more than a year, waiting for pickup.

The Health and Safety Commission had appointed Tony Barrell to head the inquiry into the crash in west London, which happened on a section of rail where Heathrow Express trains will run alongside mainline trains when the airport branch opens next year.

There it waits, on a section of rails and sleepers.

A track circuit is made by the two rails of a section of track, insulated at their ends.

It detects a train's location when the wheels and axles cause a short circuit along a section of running rail -- not when a metal shoe on the train bridges a gap in the electrified third rail, completing a circuit.

The Stewards enquired into why there was a section of running rail missing about seven furlongs out.

It has underground and surface mines, as well as coal-processing plants and a section of freight rail lines, onto which mined coal can be directly loaded.