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rail line

n. the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed [syn: line, railway line]

Usage examples of "rail line".

At the beginning of the story, in summer 1633, Frank Jackson complains that the rail line to Halle had not yet been completed.

They prepared their way by laying tracks across the point where the rail line was broken.

Crowds surged along the Van Buren Street rail line, fleeing from the West Division.

Here, the Guild has failed twenty-three citizens, now dead, found murdered as they worked to construct a new mag-lev rail line that would have benefited the holdings of Carsus and Bondalar.

The rail line angled sharply and ran parallel with the road into the Schwabenwald Forest.

Then there were shanties on both sides of the rail line, crude booths of straw and reeds.

They were intended as a private rail line, but abandoned after only a few years.

It's convenient to our new university town, near a working rail line to Portland, and the hunting's spectacular-everything from rabbit to tiger, with the Coast Range close.