Rail Explained

Rail or rails may refer to:

Rail transport

• Rail transport and related matters
• Railway track or railway lines, the running surface of a railway

Arts and media

Film

• Rails (film), a 1929 Italian film by Mario Camerini
• Rail (1967 film), a film by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films
• Rail (2024 film), a Tamil-language film

Magazines

• Rail (magazine), a British rail transport periodical
• Rails (magazine), a former New Zealand based rail transport periodical

Other arts

• The Rails, a British folk-rock band
• Rail (theater) or batten, a pipe from which lighting, scenery, or curtains are hung

Technology

• Rails framework or Ruby on Rails, a web application framework
• Rail system (firearms), a mounting system for firearm attachments
• Front engine dragster
• Runway alignment indicator lights, a configuration of an approach lighting system
• Rule Augmented Interconnect Layout, a specification for expressing guidelines for printed circuit boards; companion to the Input/output Buffer Information Specification

Other uses

• Rail (bird), a family of birds
• Rail (name)
• Rail, Missouri, a ghost town in the United States
• Rail drink, an alcoholic beverage ordered with house liquors
• Rural Appalachian Improvement League, an American non-profit organisation
• Rail, a line of cocaine

See also

• Curtain rail, a rail from which curtains are hung
• Door rails, a horizontal outside member on a door or in a frame and panel construction
• Guard rail, for protective separation
• Hand rail, for physical support, such as on stairways and steps
• Picatinny rail, a bracket used on some firearms as a mounting platform
• Power supply rail or voltage rail, a single voltage provided by a power supply unit
• Rail profile, the cross sectional shape of a railway rail
• Railing (disambiguation)
• Railway (disambiguation)
• Railways (disambiguation)
• Rayl (disambiguation)
• Riding a rail or being "run out of town on a rail"
• Third rail, a method of providing electric power to a railway train