railway line

English

A railway track. The long metal bars are rails, and the short wooden bars are railway sleepers.

railway line (plural railway lines)

(chiefly UK) A railway track; a pair of rails on which a railway train runs.
(chiefly UK) A group of railway tracks running parallel, allowing one track to be used for each direction (a double-track railway line), or allowing segregation of fast trains from stopping trains (a four-track railway line).
(chiefly UK) An organization that runs a railroad.

railway track — see railway track

stretch of track(s) connecting two points and associated infrastructure — see also railway

Danish: jernbanelinje c, togforbindelse c
Dutch: spoorlijn (nl) f, spoorweglijn f
Estonian: raudteeliin
French: ligne de chemin de fer (fr) f
German: Eisenbahnlinie (de) f
Hungarian: vasútvonal (hu)
Italian: linea ferroviaria f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: jernbanelinje m or f

Nynorsk: jarnbanelinje f, jernbanelinje f
Polish: linia kolejowa (pl) f
Portuguese: trilho (pt), linha do trem, linha de trem, linha ferroviária
Swedish: järnvägslinje (sv) c
Ukrainian: залізни́чна лі́нія f (zaliznýčna línija)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.