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2. Guide rail - Wikipedia

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   A guide rail is a device or mechanism to direct products, vehicles or other objects through a channel, conveyor, roadway or rail system. Several types of guide rails exist and may be associated with: Factory or production line conveyors; Power tools, such as table saws; Elevator or lift shafts

3. Guard rail (rail transport) - Wikipedia

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   Guard rails at Diêu Trì railway station, Vietnam This curved track in Myanmar, near Pekon, includes a guard rail on the inside rail of the curve. In rail transport, guard rails or check rails are rails used in the construction of the track, placed parallel to regular running rail to keep the wheels of rolling stock in alignment to prevent derailment.

4. Guard rail - Wikipedia

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   Railway trackage has guard rails (aka check rails) to guide wheels through possible catch points on turnouts or diamonds. Similarly, guard rails may be installed inside the innermost running rails on very sharp curves. The other most common usage is to prevent damage to other structures, especially bridges, in a derailment.

5. Traffic barrier - Wikipedia

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   Traffic barrier with a pedestrian guardrail behind it. Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, [1] in Britain as crash barriers, [2] and in auto racing as Armco barriers [3]) keep vehicles within their roadway and prevent them from colliding with dangerous obstacles such as boulders, sign supports, trees, bridge abutments, buildings, walls, and large storm drains ...

6. History of monorail - Wikipedia

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   This embodied lateral guide rails, but was basically a pannier design hauled by a locomotive having double vertical steam boilers. General LeRoy Stone demonstrated in 1876 his Centennial Monorail for transporting passengers, but failed to exploit the concept also on the Bradford and Foster Brook Monorail , and this was closed after only one ...

7. Comparison of train and tram tracks - Wikipedia

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   The guide flange (ridge) is on the inside to prevent the vehicle from slipping sideways off the rails. The horizontal (cone-shaped) rim makes contact with the slightly convex top of a steel rail in different (horizontal) places so that the outer wheel has a larger effective diameter than the inner wheel.