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Railway signalling
Railway signaling, also called railroad signaling or railway traffic control, is the system of signals, track detection, and interlocking that keeps trains safely separated and prevents conflicting movements at junctions.
Railway station naming conventions
Railway station naming conventions are the rules and practices railways use to assign, disambiguate, rename, and code station names, balancing location, brevity, and uniqueness across systems.
Railway Technical Centre
The Railway Technical Centre in Derby, England, was British Rail's central research and engineering complex, opened in 1964 and described in 1979 as the world's largest railway research center.
Railway track
Railway track, also called the permanent way, is the structure of rails, fastenings, sleepers, and ballast or concrete slab, built to guide trains and carry wheel loads into the ground.
Railways in Melbourne
Railways in Melbourne, also known as the Melbourne train network, are Australia's largest metropolitan rail network, operated by Metro Trains Melbourne, with 219 stations radiating from the city center.
Raim Laode
Raim Laode is the stage name of La Ode Raimudin, an Indonesian singer-songwriter and former stand-up comedian from Wakatobi whose 2022 song "Komang" set Indonesian streaming records and won him two AMI Awards.
Raima Sen (রাইমা সেন)
Raima Sen (রাইমা সেন), also known as Raima Dev Varma, is an Indian actress in Hindi and Bengali cinema, born in 1979 into the famous acting family of Suchitra Sen.
Raimondi Stela
The Raimondi Stela (Estela Raimondi) is a carved granite slab from Peru's Chavín culture, showing the fanged Staff God, famed for reading differently upside down.
Raimondo D'inzeo
Raimondo D'Inzeo (1925-2013), Italian show jumping rider, 1960 Rome Olympic individual gold on Posillipo; with brother Piero first Olympian to compete in eight Games, and twice world jumping champion (1956, 1960).
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609-1680) was an Italian general and military writer in the service of the Holy Roman Empire, victor over the Ottoman Turks at Sankt Gotthard in 1664.
Raimund Dutzler
Raimund Dutzler is a structural biologist and Full Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich, its Department head since 2024, known for structures of anion channels including TMEM16A.
Raimund Erbel
Raimund Erbel is a German cardiologist who directed the Clinic for Cardiology at University Hospital Essen from 1993 to 2015, known for echocardiographic diagnosis of aortic dissection and the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study.
Raimundo Correia
Raimundo Correia (1859–1911) was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, judge, and diplomat, a founder of the Academia Brasileira de Letras and of the Trindade Parnasiana with Olavo Bilac.
Raimundo Diosdado Caballero
Raimundo Diosdado Caballero, also known as Ramón Diosdado Caballero, was a Spanish Jesuit exiled to Italy in 1767 who wrote the first catalog of Spanish incunables and supplements to the bibliography of Jesuit writers.
Raimundos (1994 debut)
Raimundos is the 1994 self-titled debut album by the Brasília band Raimundos, which fused forró with hardcore punk into forró-core, went gold, and launched the band nationally.
Rain
Rain, also called a rain storm, is precipitation in which liquid water drops larger than 0.5 mm fall from a cloud; smaller, closely spaced drops are drizzle.
Rain (비) (entertainer)
Rain (비, Jung Ji-hoon, born 1982) is a South Korean K-pop and R&B singer, actor, and producer; solo debut 2002, hit album It's Raining (2004), Hollywood films Speed Racer and Ninja Assassin, founder of R.A.I.N Company.
Rain Alley
Rain Alley (雨巷) is a 1927 poem by the Chinese poet Dai Wangshu, whose musical style made his reputation and earned him the nickname "rain alley poet".
Rain Dogs
Rain Dogs is Tom Waits' eighth studio album, released September 30, 1985 on Island Records; the second of his Frank trilogy, recorded in New York with Marc Ribot and Keith Richards, best known for Downtown Train. Also an HBO/BBC 2023 series named after it.
Rain Dove
Rain Dove (Rain Dove Dubilewski) is an American gender-nonconforming model and activist who walks both menswear and womenswear runways, calls the approach "gender capitalism", and became news in 2018 for turning over Asia Argento texts to police.
Rain fade
Rain fade is the reduction in radio signal strength caused by raindrops absorbing and scattering microwave energy, dominating satellite link attenuation above about 10 GHz.
Rain Financial, Inc.
Rain Financial, Inc. is a Delaware technology company founded in 2017 as the US filing entity for Rain, a Bahrain-licensed cryptocurrency exchange serving the Middle East.
Rain garden
A rain garden, or stormwater garden, is a shallow planted depression that collects stormwater runoff from roofs and driveways and lets it soak into the ground.
Rain gauge
A rain gauge is an instrument that measures rainfall by collecting water over a known area and reporting it as depth, serving as the reference for calibrating radar and satellite estimates.
Rain gutter
A rain gutter, also called an eavestrough in Canada, is a channel along a roof's eaves that collects runoff and carries it through downspouts away from walls and foundations.
Rain Man (1990 film)
Rain Man (1988) is a Barry Levinson drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise about an autistic savant heir; it won four Oscars, topped the 1988 box office, and shaped autism representation.
Rain of animals
A rain of animals, also called raining animals, is a reported weather event where fish or frogs fall from the sky, explained by tornadoes and waterspouts.
Rain on Me (Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande song)
Rain on Me is a 2020 Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande dance-pop single from Chromatica, produced by BloodPop and BURNS, that debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and UK chart and won an MTV VMA for Best Cinematography.
Rain or Shine (Euphoria)
"Rain or Shine" is the seventh episode of Euphoria season 3, written and directed by Sam Levinson, aired on HBO May 24, 2026. The penultimate episode features Nate Jacobs' death by burial and rattlesnake, an Ali flashback with Natasha Lyonne, and mixed reviews.
Rain or Shine (그냥 사랑하는 사이) (TV series)
Rain or Shine (그냥 사랑하는 사이, Just Between Lovers) is a 2017-2018 JTBC 16-episode melodrama by writer Yoo Bo-ra and director Kim Jin-won, starring Lee Jun-ho and Won Jin-ah as survivors of a mall collapse loosely based on the 1995 Sampoong disaster.