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railway track

Railway Track

Text and emoji forms

Same symbol, two display styles.

Text symbol

Emoji

🛤️ is the railroad emoji: train tracks, a railway trip, or the journey ahead. It points to the route itself more than a train, with no fixed slang meaning. Those converging tracks also make it handy for a long journey metaphor.

EmojiSince 2014

Search it as: railroad · train tracks · railway · tracks · train journey
Type it as: :railway_track:
Around since: 2014 · Emoji 0.7
Shows up on: Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux

What 🛤️ means

🛤️ is the railway track emoji, filed under Travel & Places in the transport-ground subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.

It was added in Emoji 0.7 (2014) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 7.0 (2014).

How it is encoded

🛤️ is a sequence of 2 code points (U+1F6E4 U+FE0F), joined so that they render as one glyph. Software that counts characters will report 2, not 1 — the usual source of broken emoji handling.

It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.

Don't confuse it with

Worth knowing

🛤️ is not one character. It is 2 of them glued together, which is why deleting it sometimes takes two presses of backspace and why it breaks character counters.

Questions people ask

Why does 🛤️ look different on other phones?

Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.

How to type 🛤️

Windows

Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “railway track”.

macOS

Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.

iOS / Android

Emoji keyboard → search “railway track”.

Chat apps

:railway_track:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.

HTML

🛤️

Codes and encoding2 code points

HTML decimal

🛤️

HTML hex

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CSS content

content: "\1F6E4\FE0F";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9F%9B%A4%EF%B8%8F

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Vehicles & transport82 symbols

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