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    Rail Link, and operate with an engineer and a conductor. However, most railroads are contractually obligated to employ a brakeman/assistant conductor...
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    A third rail, also known as a live rail, electric rail or conductor rail, is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through...
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  • Conductor rail may refer to: A third rail A fourth rail A Ground-level power supply Conduit current collection Linear motor Stud contact system The guide...
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    overhead conductor rail profile at the transition end section before it is terminated at the portal. There is a gap between the overhead conductor rail at the...
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  • three-phase (3φ). Conductors: overhead line or conductor rail, usually a third rail to one side of the running rails. Conductor rail can be: top contact:...
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    In physics and electrical engineering, a conductor is an object or type of material that allows the flow of charge (electric current) in one or more directions...
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  • conductivity Bus conductor, checking tickets Conductor (rail), on a train Conductor (underground railroad), freeing slaves Mr. Conductor, a character in...
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    both overhead lines and conductor rails. The two most common systems are 25 kV AC using overhead lines, and the 750 V DC third rail system used in Southeast...
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    Singapore, these trains will draw power from a 1,500 V DC overhead conductor rail. The coupling configuration of a CR151 in revenue service is DT–Mp–Mi+Mi–Mp–DT...
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    Traction substation (category Electric rail transport)
    as well as light rail, trams and trolleybuses. 750 V is the standard for metros using conductor rail collection and tram or light rail (using overhead...
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  • conductor rail configurations: The original configuration is nominally 630 V with a −210 V centre conductor rail and a +420 V outside conductor rail. This...
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  • prison or jail Security guard, who protects property, assets, or people Conductor (rail) § Train guard, in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and India Guard...
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    lighting loss in passing conductor rail gaps. The conductor rail was altered to the outside position normal for the third-rail system. There was no train...
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  • PowerPoint template files Pot, a ceramic insulator supporting an electric conductor rail to provide electric traction power to trains Potentiometer, a variable...
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    Zhang Yufeng (category Conductor (rail))
    age of 14, she began working as a conductor on the Mudanjiang-Beijing railway. In 1963, she was assigned as a conductor on Mao Zedong's personal train....
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  • Contact rail may refer to: Overhead conductor rail Third rail Fourth rail Conduit current collection Current collector Ground-level power supply Guide...
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  • Leonard DiMaria (category Conductor (rail))
    railroad conductor for the Long Island Rail Road and employee of the New York and Atlantic Railway. These early jobs earned him the nickname "The Conductor"....
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    trains is provided by an overhead conductor rail instead of a wire, and there are short lengths of overhead conductor rail either side of the bridge on the...
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    Charley Eugene Johns (category Conductor (rail))
    Florida briefly, and then worked for ten years as a railroad brakeman and conductor. He set up an insurance agency that would operate for 40 years, occasionally...
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  • Hannah Dadds (category Conductor (rail))
    Hannah Maureen Elsie Dadds (née Head, 16 October 1941 – 26 November 2011) was a British train driver known for being the first female train driver on the...
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    Lars Ohly (category Conductor (rail))
    at Statens Järnvägar (Swedish State Railways), where he later became a conductor (Swedish: tågmästare). He is still employed at SJ, but is on leave of...
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  • Asquith Xavier (category Conductor (rail))
    Retrieved 26 July 2018. Thorpe, Stewart (13 June 2019). "RailStaff June 2019: An unsung hero". RailStaff. Retrieved 4 June 2020. "Short History of Immigration"...
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    systems usually use the running rails as the return conductor, but some systems use a separate fourth rail for this purpose. In comparison to the principal...
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  • follow the others but Konstantinov stops him, pointing out that the conductor rail is still electrically live. The water level rises, a short circuit occurs...
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  • John Holder (umpire) (category Conductor (rail))
    settling in Battersea. For London Transport, Holder was employed as a conductor on the London Underground. In 1965, Holder began playing club cricket...
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    regulate the Diesel engine's power output and to help it emulate the DC conductor rail. Overall, the modifications add approximately 7.5 tonnes to each driving...
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  • Horace Barks (category Conductor (rail))
    Horace Barks, OBE (1895-1983) was a British Labour politician. He was Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent in 1951–2. Barks was born in Ipstones in the Staffordshire...
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    did not have a booster to maintain traction power over gaps in the conductor rail. However, they could move forward onto an electrified section under...
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    Märklin's system to be a true three-rail system. However, older sections of 'M-Track' do have an actual conductor rail rather than studs. This older system...
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    Charge equipment installed. This will entail the installation of a conductor rail that becomes live only when a train is above it. This is then used to...
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