Rail or rails may refer to:

Rail transport

  • Rail transport and related matters
  • Railway track or railway lines, the running surface of a railway

Arts and media

Film

  • Rails (film), a 1929 Italian film by Mario Camerini
  • Rail (1967 film), a film by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films
  • Rail (2024 film), a Tamil-language film

Magazines

  • Rail (magazine), a British rail transport periodical
  • Rails (magazine), a former New Zealand based rail transport periodical

Other arts

  • The Rails, a British folk-rock band
  • Rail (theater) or batten, a pipe from which lighting, scenery, or curtains are hung

Technology

  • Rails framework or Ruby on Rails, a web application framework
  • Rail system (firearms), a mounting system for firearm attachments
  • Front engine dragster
  • Runway alignment indicator lights, a configuration of an approach lighting system
  • Rule Augmented Interconnect Layout, a specification for expressing guidelines for printed circuit boards; companion to the Input/output Buffer Information Specification

Other uses

  • Rail (bird), a family of birds
  • Rail (name)
  • Rail, Missouri, a ghost town in the United States
  • Rail drink, an alcoholic beverage ordered with house liquors
  • Rural Appalachian Improvement League, an American non-profit organisation
  • Rail, a line of cocaine

See also

  • Curtain rail, a rail from which curtains are hung
  • Door rails, a horizontal outside member on a door or in a frame and panel construction
  • Guard rail, for protective separation
  • Hand rail, for physical support, such as on stairways and steps
  • Picatinny rail, a bracket used on some firearms as a mounting platform
  • Power supply rail or voltage rail, a single voltage provided by a power supply unit
  • Rail profile, the cross sectional shape of a railway rail
  • Railing (disambiguation)
  • Railway (disambiguation)
  • Railways (disambiguation)
  • Rayl (disambiguation)
  • Riding a rail or being "run out of town on a rail"
  • Third rail, a method of providing electric power to a railway train