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    technology is overhead line. It is known variously as overhead catenary, overhead contact line (OCL), overhead contact system (OCS), overhead equipment (OHE)...
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  • An overhead power line is a structure used in electric power transmission and distribution to transmit electrical energy along large distances. It consists...
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    An overhead line crossing is the crossing of an obstacle—such as a traffic route, a river, a valley or a strait—by an overhead power line. The style of...
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  • Overhead line pylon may refer to: A transmission tower A traction current pylon This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Overhead...
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  • Bosporus overhead line crossings refers to the three transmission line crossings of the Bosporus, the strait in Istanbul, Turkey. Map all coordinates...
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  • Protocol overhead, additional bandwidth used by a communications protocol Line code or encoding overhead, additional bandwidth required for physical line transmission...
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    voltage (rarely above 750 V) and is far less used for main lines than overhead line, which with a higher voltage permit more distance between the substations...
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    usually a lattice tower made of steel that is used to support an overhead power line. In electrical grids, transmission towers carry high-voltage transmission...
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    conductor running along the track that usually takes one of two forms: an overhead line, suspended from poles or towers along the track or from structure or...
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    located halfway between feeder stations, provides switching to feed the overhead line from adjacent feeder stations if one feeder station loses grid supply...
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  • by an 18.95 kilometres long line with 4 overhead line and 3 submarine cable sections for strait crossings. The overhead line sections, which have a total...
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    around New York City, use electric power, supplied by a third rail and/or overhead catenary wire, which provides quicker acceleration, lower noise, and fewer...
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  • long overhead line, which is installed on 63 pylons. Estlink 2 is a classic bidirectional monopolar high-voltage direct current connection with line-commutated...
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    The Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing is a major electrical power line built across the Suez Canal in 1998, located near Suez, Egypt. It is designed...
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    London Railway, now part of the London Underground Northern line. The Liverpool Overhead Railway followed in 1893, being designed from the outset to be...
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    railroad maintenance of way vehicle that is used to maintain and inspect overhead line (also known as catenary) on electrified railroad or metro tracks. Such...
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    An overhead cable is a cable for the transmission of information, laid on utility poles. Overhead telephone and cable TV lines are common in North America...
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    Tram (redirect from Trolley line)
    shorter than main line and rapid transit trains. Most trams use electrical power, usually fed by a pantograph sliding on an overhead line; older systems...
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  • British Railways converted the articulated unit to a two-car set for overhead line maintenance. The centre car was removed and the number of engines in...
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    train, tram or trolley buses to collect power through contact with an overhead line. The term stems from the resemblance of some styles to the mechanical...
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    concerns from the Federal Aviation Administration that the overhead lines of the rail line would interfere with the landing paths of airplanes. Amid ambivalence...
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    An underground power line provides electrical power with underground cables. Compared to overhead power lines, underground lines have lower risk of starting...
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    The Yamanote Line (Japanese: 山手線, romanized: Yamanote-sen) is a railway loop service in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East)...
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    cables, as overhead line, or as a combination of ground cable and overhead line. HVDC electrodes are used in most bipolar thyristor-based line-commutated...
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    overhead lines, although to a much lesser extent. Nevertheless, for a long AC overhead transmission line, the current flowing just to charge the line...
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    single overhead line proved more practical. Since the 1980s, modern electric locomotives use three-phase AC internally, generated from a single overhead line...
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    one heavy rail line (running both underground and on elevated guideways). In 1954, the TTC opened Canada's first underground rail line, then known as...
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    C851E – run on the NEL, which is powered by an overhead line. The NEL is Singapore's first Art-in-Transit line, with 19 artworks displayed across its 17 stations...
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    1968 and was extended in 1977. HVDC Vancouver Island consists of three overhead line sections with a total length of 42 kilometres and two submarine cable...
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  • megawatts at a symmetrical voltage of 250 kV. The whole line is implemented as overhead line on steel lattice towers, with a single conductor per HVDC...
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