railway line

English

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

Noun

railway line (plural railway lines)

1. (chiefly UK) A railway track; a pair of rails on which a railway train runs.
2. (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).
3. (chiefly UK) An organization that runs a railroad.

Synonyms

• (all senses): railroad line (US)

Translations

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)