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 lines...
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Single track may refer to: Road, track or railway only wide enough for one vehicle at a time. See: Single-track railway Single-track road Singletrack (mountain...
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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 single-track road or one-lane road is a road that permits two-way travel but is not wide enough in most places to allow vehicles to pass one another...
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Single (locomotive), a steam locomotive with a single pair of driving wheels As a verb: to convert a double-track railway to a single-track railway Single...
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require the use of physical signals, and some systems are specific to single-track railways. The earliest rail cars were hauled by horses or mules. A mounted...
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Chenab Rail Bridge (redirect from Chenab River Railway Bridge)
Chenab Rail Bridge is a steel and concrete arch bridge carrying a single-track railway line, located between Bakkal and Kauri in the Reasi district of the...
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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 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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Norilsk Railway (Russian: Норильская железная дорога) is a single-track railway and formerly the northernmost railway line in Russia. The railway is in...
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The railway first opened in 1923 as a two-section railway, but was overhauled in 2010 into a one-section system. It is a single-track railway with a...
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kilometres (4,363 mi) of track, or 3,013 route km. Three quarters of it is electrified, one third is single track. Railway lines are built in standard...
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Railroad switch (redirect from Track switch)
is a mechanical installation enabling railway trains to be guided from one track to another, such as at a railway junction or where a spur or siding branches...
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Bangabandhu Railway Bridge also known as Jamuna Railway Bridge is an under-construction dual-gauge, double-track railway bridge on Jamuna River. This bridge...
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the outermost rails. The tracks were laid on concrete sleepers mortised into the bedrock. The single car used on the railway was a 45 by 22 ft (13.7 by...
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The Feldkirch–Buchs railway is a 18.52 km (11.51 mi) electrified single track railway line that links Austria and Switzerland passing through Liechtenstein...
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Standedge Tunnels (redirect from Standedge Railway Tunnels)
was re-opened in May 2001. The first, single-track railway tunnel, built for the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) on its line between Huddersfield...
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SRT had 4,044 km (2,513 mi) of track, all of it meter gauge except the Airport Link. Nearly 91% was single-track railway (3,685 km (2,290 mi)) while 6%...
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Train station (redirect from Over-track train station)
one track, and a station building providing such ancillary services as ticket sales, waiting rooms, and baggage/freight service. Stations on a single-track...
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Pingtung line (category Railway lines opened in 1941)
and Linbian railway stations will be upgraded from a single-track railway to a double-track railway in December 2019 while the section between Chaozhou...
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The Lhasa–Nyingchi railway (Chinese: 拉林铁路) also known as the Lalin Line (Chinese: 拉林线), is a single-track railway across the southeast Tibet, China, linking...
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power engineering Single-line working, the practice of using one track out of two on a double track railway Single-track railway Single yellow line This...
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Belfast–Derry line (redirect from Belfast-Derry railway line)
Killagan, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Bellarena. The line is the busiest single track railway line in the United Kingdom, carrying over 4 million passengers per...
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Monorail (redirect from Track beam)
A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or beam. Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of...
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breaks. In April 1868, the Metropolitan & St John's Wood Railway (M&SJWR) opened a single-track railway in tunnel to Swiss Cottage from new platforms at Baker...
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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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Zambia's Central Province. The single-track railway is 1,860 km (1,160 mi) long and is operated by the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA). The governments...
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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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Siding (rail) (redirect from Team track)
important for efficiency on single track lines, and add to the capacity of other lines. A private siding does not belong to a railway, but to a factory, government...
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Gauntlet track or interlaced track, also gantlet track (AE) is an arrangement in which railway tracks run parallel on a single track bed and are interlaced...
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