Sentence examples for 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.

A track inspector checked the faulty section of rail the night before the derailment, and he did not see a crack.

The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the crash, has said it identified a fractured section of rail that is "of interest to investigators".

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".

Ahead, somewhere in a tunnel below 96th Street on the West Side of Manhattan, a 20-foot section of rail had broken.

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

Rails with squat defects in different stages were removed from the site, investigated and inspected visually, ultrasonically, optically and by using electron microscopy to find the main cause of crack initiation and squat formation Microscopic observations revealed primary, secondary and tertiary cracks in the transverse section of rails, and differences in crack surface appearance.

Committee members represent a wide cross-section of rail users and conduct their meetings in public.

This paper reports on a series of tests which were carried out on full-scale sections of rail that had been treated by laser cladding aiming to create a layer (~1 2 mm) of high performance material on the rail head.

In the meantime, Network Rail has started painting some sections of rail white so that they absorb less heat.