A siding, in rail terminology, is a low-speed track section distinct from a running line or through route such as a main line, branch line, or spur. It...
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up siding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Siding may refer to: Siding (construction), the outer covering or cladding of a house Siding (rail), a...
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Classification yard Goods station List of rail yards List of railway roundhouses Rail transport operations Siding (rail) Traction maintenance depot The Lehigh...
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Catch points (redirect from Safety siding)
points where the tongues of rail are longer, so that the trap point rail nearest the main line continues over the siding rail with a common crossing or...
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Pocket track (redirect from Centre siding)
A pocket track, tail track, or reversing siding (UK: centre siding, turnback siding) is a rail track layout which allows trains to park off the main line...
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Classification yard (redirect from Marshalling siding)
December 1942 Nanxiang Classification Yard in Shanghai, China List of rail yards Siding (rail) James T. Kneafsey (1975). "Major Problems of Railroad Service"...
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Railcar mover (redirect from Rail King)
in a rail siding or small yard. Vollert has developed an unmanned road-rail remote controlled vehicle VLEX for shunting up to 300 t. Road–rail vehicle Unimog...
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The Broadstore Siding was a 1.6-kilometre (1.0 mi) long railway siding in the suburb of Campbellfield, Melbourne, Australia, that served the Australian...
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Port of Melbourne (section Rail access)
were later removed and not restored until 2003 as a 1500 metre long siding. Rail sidings at Appleton Dock reopened in 2000 to serve a new export grain terminal...
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Siding or wall cladding is the protective material attached to the exterior side of a wall of a house or other building. Along with the roof, it forms...
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of the rail-assiociated buildings remain. Two long parallel sidings, the northernmost serving a loading platform, and also two short sidings setting...
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Trans-Australian Railway (redirect from Fisher (railway siding))
Western Australia, crossing the Nullarbor Plain in the process. As the only rail freight corridor between Western Australia and the eastern states, the line...
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Railway track (redirect from Rail (rail transport))
welded rail and is less desirable for high speed trains. However, jointed track is still used in many countries on lower speed lines and sidings, and is...
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reach their maximum speed. For example, high-speed rail with a 200 km/h average speed and commuter rail with a 60 km/h average can co-exist on quadruple...
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completely replaced by flat-bottom rail on British railways, although it survives on the national rail system in some sidings or branch lines. It can also be...
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considered included a rail route along the Mina corridor. This rail route would have originated at the Fort Churchill Siding rail line, near Wabuska. The...
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Clapboard (redirect from Bevel siding)
also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of those terms, is wooden siding of a building in the...
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Passing loop (redirect from Passing siding)
has extensive use in high-speed rail and East Asian rapid transit systems. In this layout a local train enters the siding allowing a scheduled express train...
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Dharamtar (section Rail siding)
Mumbai–Goa–Konkan railway line with an approved rail siding. It is a tri-modal port with rail (Dharamtar has an approved rail siding, the construction for which is under...
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shared passenger-freight tracks (sidings, terminal capacities, switching routes, and design type). Transport by rail is an energy-efficient but capital-intensive...
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by train. The railroad has 656 miles (1,056 km) of track, including sidings, rail yards and branch lines. The main line between Seward and Fairbanks is...
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Inglenook Sidings, created by Alan Wright (1928 - January 2005), is a model railway train shunting puzzle. It consists of a specific track layout, a set...
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Railway platform height (category Rail loading gauge)
top of rail (ATR) – of passenger platforms at stations. A connected term is train floor height, which refers to the ATR height of the floor of rail vehicles...
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Harrow & Wealdstone station (redirect from Harrow & Wealdstone rail station)
replaced by a single siding. This allowed the curve at the northern end of platform 2 to be eased using the space vacated by the removed siding. In practice,...
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Carlingford railway line (section Sidings)
line is a former heavy rail line in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, which now largely forms part of the Parramatta Light Rail. It was opened from Clyde...
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The Anglesey Sidings is a former sidings terminal located on the South Staffordshire Line, Staffordshire, England, and served for a time as an oil terminal...
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Manguri Siding is located in the Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor at the locality of Mount Clarence Station, about 42 kilometres (26 mi) west of the opal...
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November 2016. "Phosphate Works". Rail Geelong. Marcus Wong. Retrieved 3 November 2016. "Distillers Siding". Rail Geelong. Marcus Wong. Retrieved 3 November...
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Train station (redirect from Rail station)
There may be other sidings at the station which are lower speed tracks for other purposes. A maintenance track or a maintenance siding, usually connected...
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A refuge siding is a single-ended, or dead-end, siding off a running line, which may be used to temporarily accommodate a train so that another one can...
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