page_title: Guide rail
section_title: Railway guide rail
hierarchical_section_title: Guide rail / Railway guide rail
caption_attribution_description: I took this picture. Any reproduction, and subsequent reproductions, must include the following attribution: "Matthew Anderson, 2006"
context_page_description: A guide rail is a device or mechanism to direct products, vehicles or other objects through a channel, conveyor, roadway or rail system.
  Several types of guide rails exist and may be associated with:
  Factory or production line conveyors
  Power tools, such as table saws
  Elevator or lift shafts
  Roadways and bridges
  A central rail that guides the rubber tired train of a rubber tired metro
context_section_description: On the Sapporo Municipal Subway a central rail guides the train. Translohr and Bombardier Guided Light Transit are also guided by a central guide rail.
caption: Sapporo Subway guide rail and flat steel roll ways
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