railway line

English edit

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