An adhesion railway relies on adhesion traction to move the train, and is the most widespread and common type of railway in the world. Adhesion traction...

mounted vehicles up or down inclines. These include simple rail adhesion, rack railways and cable inclines (including rail mounted water tanks to carry...

de Ferro Santos-Jundiaí. The São Paulo Railway consists of three parts: The 20 km (12 mi) long adhesion railway at the coast from Santos to Piaçaguera...

standard gauge adhesion railway from Romanshorn to St. Gallen St. Fiden (19.13 km) opened on 3 October 1910 and the standard gauge adhesion line from St...

Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald from Interlaken. The railway is rack assisted (that is although an adhesion railway, rack and pinion operation is used on steep...

is the highest railway crossing in Europe and the third-highest railway in Switzerland. It also ranks as the highest adhesion railway of the continent...

Slippery rail, or low railhead adhesion, is a condition of railways (railroads) where contamination of the railhead reduces the traction between the wheel...

Brünig Pass, using sections of rack railway to overcome the gradients, but with most of the line operated by normal adhesion methods. The line is 74 kilometres...

above sea level, it is the third highest railway crossing in Europe. It also ranks as the highest adhesion railway of the continent, and – with inclines...

towards Wanlockhead and is the highest adhesion railway in the UK. The rack and pinion Snowdon Mountain Railway is higher. Trains are currently diesel...

sections and elsewhere operate as a regular railway, are described as rack-and-adhesion lines. On rack-and-adhesion lines, trains are equipped with propulsion...

has a maximum gradient of 7.9% and is the steepest standard gauge adhesion railway in Europe. It carries both leisure and local commuter traffic. The...

at the northern end of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel. The network is an adhesion railway but using Abt rack assistance on the steeper inclines. Between Realp...

directly on the rails. Where the line is too steep to rely on adhesion for climbing, a rack railway may be used, in which a toothed cog wheel engages with a...

Monistrol Vila, is operated by conventional adhesion. The remainder of the line is operated as a rack railway using the Abt system, overcoming a height...

Transandine Railway (Spanish: Ferrocarril Trasandino) was a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge combined rack (Abt system) and adhesion railway which operated...

used to finish the ends of rods of various forms. Adhesion railway The most common type of railway, where power is applied by driving some or all of the...

funicular railway, which was replaced in 2006), the second an adhesion railway. At Brienz the Brienz Rothorn Bahn (BRB), a steam-hauled rack railway, ascends...

Erzberg Railway (1872–1978). The last rack-railway engine was in use until 1978, when the route was electrified and converted into an adhesion railway. In...

Rocket was almost entirely new. Stephenson was an advocate of the adhesion railway, against the fashion of the time, and believed that the light loads...

heritage railways in Switzerland. For convenience, the list includes any pre-World War II railway in the large sense of the term (either adhesion railway, rack...

Cable car Funicular railway Grade (slope) Lickey Incline Mountain railway Rack railway Ruling gradient Slope Steepest gradients on adhesion railways...

gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways built to a track gauge of 800 mm (2 ft 7+1⁄2 in). Whilst this gauge is uncommon amongst adhesion railways, some...

maximum grade of 11.6%, the Pöstlingbergbahn is one of the steepest adhesion railways in the world. There are steeper grades on at least one other tram...

will be adhesion only. Gebishi Railway Kunming–Hai Phong Railway Qingzang railway Colombian Railways Lika line Rijeka line Eritrean Railway Artouste...

This article lists the highest railways in the world. The table only includes non-cable passenger railways whose culminating point is over 3,000 metres...

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(3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge railway which would be 18.0 kilometers (11.2 mi) long. Most of the railway would be built as an adhesion railway with a 2.5 percent...

railway companies to operate on four different gauges. Whilst most lines are conventional adhesion railways, the FGC also operates two rack railways and...

investigation found evidence of low wheel/rail adhesion and that the sanders, which help increase adhesion when braking, may not have been working. A formal...