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guardrail

a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety

Espalier

A railing or trellis upon which fruit trees or shrubs are trained as upon a wall a tree or row

Proximate security

Proximate security, 'proximate security' means protection provided from close quarters, during journey by road, rail, aircraft, watercraft or on foot or any other means of transport and shall include the places of functions,

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Railway

Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if

Highways

Acts, 1835 to 1885; the Local Government Acts, 1929 and 1933; Road Traffic Acts, 1930-1934; and Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933; and other Acts set out in Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Highways'; and the 11th s. of

Interest

Co., (1892) 1 CH, p. 146; Re Edwards, (1891) 61 LJ Ch 22; and London, Chatham & Dover Rail Co. v. South Eastern Rail Co., 1893 AC 429. Judgments and, under the (English) Arbitration Act, 1934 (24

Point switch

A switch made up of a rail from each track both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of

Snakehead

A loose bent up end of one of the strap rails or flat rails formerly used on American railroads It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a

Motor vehicle

a body has not been attached and a trailer; but does not include a vehicle running upon fixed rails or a vehicle of a special type adapted for use only in a factory or in any other

Rolling stock

carri-ages (whether powered or not), wagons, trollies and vehicles of all kinds moving or intended to move on rails. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(1)(a)] By the Railway Rolling Stock

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