railway track

Locomotive's metal road

The structure on which trains run, consisting of parallel steel rails fixed to wooden or concrete sleepers.

Railway track may refer to the rails themselves or to the entire right-of-way including the railbed beneath.

Workers were repairing the railway track after the derailment.

In American English, railroad track is more common.

Related

sleepers · subgrade · permanent way · ties · turnout · gauge · embankment · spikes · passenger · caboose · conductor · platform · junction · siding · steel · signal · level crossing · crossing

Opposites
mode of transportation infrastructure

railway trackhighway

Major road for travel

road · motorway · freeway · airway · shipping lane

movement constraint

railway trackopen road

Unobstructed route ahead

open water · open sky · open sea · airspace · ocean

travel medium

railway trackairspace

Regulated overhead flight zone

sea lane · shipping route · flight corridor · ocean · sky

Family

track, rail, railroad, tracks, railing, railway, tracking, tracked, sidetrack

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G