Sentence examples for section of rails from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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".

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".

Down in the street, a switch point -- the moving section of rail in a switch -- had been dislodged, probably by the trucks pounding in and out of the Army Terminal during the night.

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.

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.