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  2. 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 ...

  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. Cable barrier - Wikipedia

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    Also at this level, a 4,400 pounds (2,000 kg) pickup truck impacts at 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) and 25°. TL-4 includes both these tests but adds a 17,600 pounds (8,000 kg) single-unit truck impacting at 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) and 25°. All cable barrier systems available today are approved at either TL-3 or TL-4.

  5. Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail - Wikipedia

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    The Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail is an airborne signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection platform based on the Beechcraft King Air and Super King Air.While the US military and specifically the United States Army have numerous personnel transport variants of the King Air platforms referred to with the general C-12 designation, the RC-12 specification refers to a heavily modified platform that ...

  6. Guard rail - Wikipedia

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    Staircase railings in the Degré du roi, part of the Petit appartement du roi, in the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France. Guard rails, guardrails, railings or protective guarding, [1] in general, are a boundary feature and may be a means to prevent or deter access to dangerous or off-limits areas while allowing light and visibility in a greater way than a fence.

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  8. Guard rail (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A guard rail is a protective boundary feature. Guard rail or guardrail may also refer to: Railroad guard rails (otherwise known as check rails), installed parallel to trackbed rails, for railway safety; RC-12 Guardrail, a U.S. Army intelligence-gathering aircraft based on the C-12 Huron; Roof edge protection, rails installed on roofs to protect ...

  9. Great Western Railway wagons - Wikipedia

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    There were also match or 'shunting' trucks to connect broad and standard gauge wagons until the broad gauge was abandoned in 1892, [29] or to run with overhanging or dangerous loads. [30] These were originally just ordinary flat trucks run without a load, but in later years a number of old wagons were kept for this purpose and given diagrams ...