Sentence examples for sections of rail from inspiring English sources

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

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.

"When it's all done, this will be one of the most modern sections of rail in the city it's got to go down for a while, before it goes up," he told me.

The equivalent model to calculate GIC is shown in Fig. 4, where U 1 U 3 represent, respectively, the equivalent voltage sources acting on different sections of unit length of rails as ground-induced electric field, R 1 R 3 represent, respectively, the different sections of unit resistance of rails, and R 01 R 04 represent, respectively, the different sections of rail-to-ground contact resistance.

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.