Guide rail#Railway guide rail

Most factories use guide rails convey products and component parts along an assembly line. This conveyor system propels products of various sizes, shapes, and dimensions through the factory over the course of their assembly.[http://www.flexlink.com/ru/Images/11GR.pdf Guide Rail Components section of Flexlink’s catalog]

Accessory to a power tool, such as a straight, swivel or angle jig for a circular saw, and can also be referred to as a fence. The guide rail system provides an acute method of cutting material.[http://www.woodcraft.com/Family/2080310/WoodRiver-Guide-Rail-System.aspx Woodriver Guide Rail System]

Guide rails are part of the inner workings of most elevator and lift shafts, functioning as the vertical, internal track. The guide rails are fixed to two sides of the shaft; one guides the elevator car and the other for the counterweight. In tandem, these rails operate both as stabilization within the shaft during routine use and as a safety system in case of emergency stops.[http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/engines-equipment/elevator3.htm How Stuff Works, Elevators]

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A guide rail is a system designed to guide vehicles back to the roadway and away from potentially hazardous situations.{{cite news |title=Guide Rail: Introduction |url=http://www.clrp.cornell.edu/techassistance/guiderail%20pdfs/GR1%20intro%20bite.pdf |access-date=9 November 2005 |work=Quick Bites |publisher=Cornell Local Roads Program |date=January 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051109034308/http://www.clrp.cornell.edu/techassistance/guiderail%20pdfs/GR1%20intro%20bite.pdf |archive-date=9 November 2005}} There is no legal distinction between a guide rail and a guard rail. According to the US Federal Highway Administration, the terms guardrail and guiderail are synonymous.{{cite web |title=W-Beam Guardrail |url=http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/roadway_dept/policy_guide/road_hardware/ctrmeasures/wbeam/ |publisher=Federal Highway Administration |access-date=8 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208101917/http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/roadway%5Fdept/policy%5Fguide/road%5Fhardware/ctrmeasures/wbeam/ |archive-date=8 December 2010}}

Several types of roadway guide rail exist; all are engineered to guide vehicular traffic on roads or bridges. Such systems include W-beam, box beam, cable, and concrete barrier. Each system is intended to guide vehicles back onto the road as opposed to guard them from going off the road into potential danger.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}

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On the Sapporo Municipal Subway a central rail guides the train. The Lille Metro, Translohr and Bombardier Guided Light Transit are also guided by a central guide rail.

Image:Sapporo subway rollers.jpg|Sapporo Subway guide rail and flat steel roll ways

File:Guide rail used in the Translohr guidance system for rubber-tyred trams.jpg|Section of the Translohr guidance rail (during the Clermont-Ferrand installation in 2006)

File:Ligne 1 du métro de Lille Métropole - Garage-atelier des Quatre Cantons (19).JPG|VAL tracks on the Lille Metro showing the center guide rail and rollways.

File:BTC 4005.jpg|Busan Subway Line 4

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• Automated guideway transit
• Baluster
• Concrete step barrier
• Crash barrier
• Flangeways
• Guard rail
• Guide bar
• Handrail
• Jersey barrier
• Rubber-tyred metros
• Rubber-tyred trams

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