A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as a train track or permanent way (often "perway"...
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A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the...
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A quadruple-track railway (also known as a four-track railway) is a railway line consisting of four parallel tracks with two tracks used in each direction...
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The railway track or permanent way is the elements of railway lines: generally the pairs of rails typically laid on the sleepers or ties embedded in ballast...
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In rail transport, track gauge is the distance between the two rails of a railway track. All vehicles on a rail network must have wheelsets that are compatible...
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Train station (redirect from Over-track train station)
(mainly North American terminology) and railway station (mainly UK and other Anglophone countries) is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload...
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A single-track railway is a railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track. Single track is usually found on lesser-used rail...
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the combined track structure. Ballast also physically holds the track in place as the trains roll over it. Not all types of railway tracks use ballast...
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Railroad tie (redirect from Track sleeper)
English), railway tie (Canadian English) or railway sleeper (Australian and British English) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Generally...
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A ballastless track or slab track is a type of railway track infrastructure in which the traditional elastic combination of sleepers and ballast is replaced...
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of railway track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails. For ridable miniature railways and minimum gauge railways, the...
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Guernsey Track and field athletics Track cycling Velodrome, a track for bicycles, track cycling competitions Railway track, metal tracks on which trains...
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cog railway was the Mount Washington Cog Railway in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, which carried its first fare-paying passengers in 1868. The track was...
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A suspension railway is a form of elevated monorail in which the vehicle is suspended from a fixed track (as opposed to a cable used in aerial tramways)...
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Rapid transit (redirect from Elevated track)
designated lines between stations typically using electric multiple units on railway tracks. Some systems use guided rubber tires, magnetic levitation (maglev)...
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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The first passenger train ran on Konkan railway tracks on 20 March 1993, between Udupi and Mangalore. During its initial years...
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Rail transport (redirect from Railway)
Jessop opened the Surrey Iron Railway, a double track plateway, erroneously sometimes cited as world's first public railway, in south London. William Jessop...
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Jammu–Baramulla line (redirect from Kashmir railway)
Jammu–Baramulla line is a railway track being laid to connect the Kashmir Valley in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir with Jammu railway station and thence...
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Railways with a railway track gauge of 5 ft (1,524 mm) first appeared in the United Kingdom and the United States. This gauge became commonly known as...
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A railway platform is an area alongside a railway track providing convenient access to trains. Almost all stations have some form of platform, with larger...
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in 2001. The railway is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. In 2023, the railway owned approximately 20,100 kilometres (12,500 mi) of track in seven provinces...
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A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in). The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George...
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the track ownership and management from running the trains, there are now many track-only companies and train-only companies. Southern African Railway Association...
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Rail transport in Afghanistan (redirect from Track gauge in Afghanistan)
construction of the rail line. The Khaf-Herat railway is 225 kilometers long, with 140 km of the railway track traversing Afghanistan and the remaining 85 km...
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the Minister of Railways. With more than 1.2 million employees, it is one of the world's largest employers. The first railway track was operational in...
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Railway Track & Structures (RT&S) is an American trade journal for the rail transport industry, focusing on the fields of railroad engineering, communication...
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manages the fourth largest national railway system by size with a track length of 132,310 km (82,210 mi), running track length of 106,493 km (66,172 mi)...
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the first passenger railway line in North India was opened, which falls under Northern Railway zone. In 1864, a broad-gauge track from Calcutta to Delhi...
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Funicular (redirect from Funicular railway)
few-NIK-yoo-lər, f(y)uu-, f(j)ə-) is a type of cable railway system that connects points along a railway track laid on a steep slope. The system is characterized...
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Calcutta in 1864. Metre-gauge track from Delhi to Rewari and further to Ajmer was laid in 1873 by Rajputana State Railway and metre-gauge trains from this...
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