Illustration: At a small Japanese railway museum, a child crouches beside a short, accessible section of track beneath a stationary maintenance trolley. Two steel rails run parallel across wooden sleepers, with their fastening plates clearly visible.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

レール

reeru

rail, railway track

Example sentences

  1. レール温度おんどが上昇じょうしょうした影響えいきょうで、列車れっしゃは３０分遅ふんおくれで到着とうちゃくした。

    The train arrived 30 minutes late due to a rise in the temperature of the rails.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. またレールが固定こていされないため線路間隔せんろかんかくがずれて列車れっしゃが脱線だっせんすることもあった。

    Further, the gauge became uneven because the track was not fixed, and trains sometimes went off the track.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 先さきに路盤ろばんが完成かんせいしていた七瀬ななせまであと少すこしの距離きょりであったが、ついに七瀬ななせまでレールが延のびることはなかった。

    The tramline remained unfinished for a little distance up to Nanase where roadbeds had been completed, but the tramline has never been extended up to Nanase.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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