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    its own than a guard rail and provides support. Guardrails also apply in a technology context. Many public spaces are fitted with guard rails as a means...
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    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...
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    The rail is then known as grooved rail, groove rail, or girder rail. The flangeway has the railhead on one side and the guard on the other. The guard carries...
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  • A guard rail is a protective boundary feature. Guard rail may also refer to: Railroad guard rails (otherwise known as check rails), installed parallel...
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  • either wheel or rail and possibly derailing. The traditional form of grooved rail is the girder guard section illustrated below. This rail is a modified...
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  • There is no legal distinction between a guide rail and a guard rail. Several types of roadway guide rail exist; all are engineered to guide vehicular traffic...
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  • panel construction Guard rail, for protective separation Hand rail, for physical support, such as on stairways and steps Picatinny rail, a bracket used on...
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    initially under the State Rail Authority and later on CityRail. The T sets were built as "third-generation" trains for Sydney's rail fleet, coinciding with...
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  • steel steps. Page performed a springboard clothesline to Page from the guard rail and attempted to hit Page with a weight plate, but Page ducked. Nese then...
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    Airport Amsterdammertje Automatic number-plate recognition Coal-tax post Guard rail Guard stone Highway marker Jersey barrier Milestone Stanchion Sump buster...
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  • Security guard, who protects property, assets, or people Conductor (rail) § Train guard, in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and India Guard (computer...
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    Railroad switch (redirect from Rail switch)
    hardening to increase service life. A guard rail is a short piece of rail placed alongside the main (stock) rail opposite the crossing. These ensure that...
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    British Rail, there were several grades of guard, depending on whether the guard worked on freight or passenger trains—and a purely operational guard grade...
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  • Weinstein Company The Third Rail (album), a 1996 album by New York City-based blues rock band Railroad Jerk A Guard rail (rail), used to prevent a train...
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    derail it or the train. In the UK, small metal bars called life-guards, rail guards or guard irons are provided immediately in front of the wheels. They knock...
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    fastest time at that point, spun on an oil patch and crashed against the guard-rail, being thrown out of the cockpit. He sustained leg injuries and was not...
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  • Railings (horse), a racehorse Guard rail, a structure blocking an area from access Cable railings, a type of guard rail Handrail, a structure designed...
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    Cambridge. A modern parapet with integrated lighting functions as a guard rail along the BP Pedestrian Bridge in Chicago The Mirror Wall at Sigiriya...
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    flatbed trucks Baluster Bollard Buttress Column Fencepost (disambiguation) Guard rail Handrail Post (structural) Steel fence post Agricultural fencing Tie down...
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    Deck railing is a guard rail to prevent people falling from decks, stairs and balconies of buildings. Over time, many different styles of deck railing...
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    make them forgiving. As a last option, isolate the obstacle with a guard rail. Guard rails are used to reduce the severity of roadway departure crashes...
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    lap he lost control of his open-wheel 312, its left rear wheel hit the guard rail, and sent it into an erratic skid. Impacting a light pole, the car overturned...
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    acquired slang names. A pabellón con barandas (baranda is Spanish for guard rail) is served with tajadas because the long plantain slices placed on the...
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    create a crumple zone, absorbing energy. Others flatten a corrugated steel guard rail section, or split a steel box beam. Friction. Some attenuators work by...
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    Virginia, it hit seven occupied vehicles and destroyed 97 feet (30 m) of guard rail: 5  before plunging through the ice into the Potomac River. The aircraft...
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    On January 14, 2015, a GO bus on Highway 407 near Weston Road hit a guard rail and rolled into a ditch. One passenger was ejected and crushed to death...
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  • attacking Nash outside the ring with the use of a steel chair and the guard rail. Vicious continued with a leg drop and a scoop slam. Vicious sent Nash...
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    what he later described as being "these flesh-colored things" behind a guard rail as he drove along a rural country road named German Church Road, approximately...
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    aware, however, that the trailer could slide up against parked cars or a guard rail, or that the wheels could slide into a ditch. This situation can occur...
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  • A hand rail may refer to: A banister on a stairway A handrail on a stairway A guard rail for safety or security This disambiguation page lists articles...
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