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    The second use of the TOPS classification Class 21 for locomotives used on the British railway network came through the use of a number of related diesel-hydraulic...
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  • the North British Locomotive Company from 1958-1960. British Rail Class 21 (MaK) - a group of diesel-hydraulic locomotives produced by MaK/Vossloh and...
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  • (NBL), British diesel-electric locomotive British Rail Class 21 (MaK), various locomotives used by Eurotunnel GS&WR Class 21 Hormuz 21-class landing...
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    The British Rail Class 47 or Brush Type 4 is a class of diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. A total of 512 Class...
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    Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK) for German coal supplier RAG Aktiengesellschaft and is a follow-on to the MaK G1205 locomotive class built as the SNCB Class 77. Production...
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    East Rail line (Chinese: 東鐵綫) is one of the ten lines that form MTR, the mass transit system in Hong Kong. The railway line starts at Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau...
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    Hua Mak the express line can bypass the city line via a passing loop. Nine four-car and three-car Siemens Desiro EMUs based on the British Rail Class 360...
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    (Arabic: البُراق, romanized: al-burāq) is a 323-kilometre (201 mi) high-speed rail service between Casablanca and Tangier in Morocco. The first of its kind...
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    The MaK plant where the locomotives were built was part of the Krupp group in the 1990s See 16–21 December European snowfall "loks-aus-kiel.de - MaK - DE...
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    EMU100 series (category 25 kV AC multiple units)
    service in 2009. This class of railcars were the first to operate on the electric Tzu-Chiang Express. Due to the unit's British origin, rail buffs have variously...
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    any other in the MTR system. The Tuen Ma line is a merger of two former MTR lines, the West Rail line and the Ma On Shan line via a new stretch of mostly...
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    The history of rail transport began before the beginning of the common era. It can be divided into several discrete periods defined by the principal means...
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    Southeastern. Having been in planning since 2004, a preview service of the British Rail Class 395 trains, popularly known as Javelins, started in June 2009, and...
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    MTR (category 25 kV AC railway electrification)
    Bus routes, the First Class section of the East Rail line, the Airport Express, as well as journeys to and from Lo Wu, Lok Ma Chau and Racecourse stations)...
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    Higher-speed rail (HrSR), also known as high-performance rail, higher-performance rail, semi-high-speed rail or almost-high-speed rail, is the jargon...
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    A-Class F-Cell were delivered to Landsvirkjun and Reykjavik Energy. A DHL version of F-Cell was unveiled in FC EXPO 2008. According to a 2008 British satisfaction...
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    years ago. Britain has a history of high-speed rail, starting with early high-speed steam systems: examples of engines are GWR 3700 Class 3440 City of...
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    Railgun (redirect from Rail Gun)
    A railgun or rail gun, sometimes referred to as a rail cannon, is a linear motor device, typically designed as a weapon, that uses electromagnetic force...
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    Canadian Northern Railway, terminating at Vancouver. The British Columbia Electric Railway provided rail services in Victoria and Vancouver between the nineteenth...
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    Indian Railways (redirect from Indian rail)
    carried 8.44 billion passengers. Indian Railways also operates different classes of rail freight transport. In 2022–23, it operated 8,479 trains on average...
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    Euroduplex (category 15 kV AC multiple units)
    Kenitra–Tangier high-speed rail line. The contract of €400 million expected commissioning in 2015. The ordered trains are electrified at 25 kV and 3 kV and can operate...
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    Kalka–Shimla Railway (category Rail transport in Haryana)
    connect Shimla, the summer capital of India during the British Raj, with the rest of the Indian rail system. Its early locomotives were manufactured by Sharp...
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    Acela (category Passenger rail transportation in Connecticut)
    Americas, reaching 150 miles per hour (240 km/h) (qualifying as high-speed rail), but only over 49.9 miles (80.3 km) of the 457-mile (735 km) route. Acela...
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    (PDF). Retrieved September 21, 2014. Progress Rail Acquires GE Transportation's Inspection Products Business – Progress Rail Services. Progressrail.com...
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    Acton Central railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 3)
    equipment (25 kV AC) to third rail (750 V DC), or vice versa, depending on direction of travel (overhead line is used to Stratford, third rail to Richmond)...
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    Northeast Regional (category Commuter rail in the United States)
    The Northeast Regional is an intercity rail service operated by Amtrak in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States. In the past it has been known...
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    specifications, General Motors designed the JT26CW-SS (British Rail Class 59) for Great Britain, the GT26CW-2 for Yugoslavia, South Korea, Iran, Morocco...
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    of town. The town has no rail or air service, though the town used to have rail service on the Hanover branch. The nearest rail service is the Kingston-Route...
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  • and British mechanical equipment. Alstom, Dandenong Downer Rail, Cardiff, Maryborough & Newport UGL Rail, Broadmeadow formerly United Group Rail, United...
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    Santa Fe: Merger". RailNews. Pentrex: 87. March 1997. Archived from the original on October 6, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012. "Form 10-K: Burlington Northern...
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