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    The rail profile is the cross sectional shape of a railway rail, perpendicular to its length. Early rails were made of wood, cast iron or wrought iron...
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    Railgrinder (redirect from Rail grinder)
    A railgrinder (or rail grinder) is a maintenance of way vehicle or train used to restore the profile and remove irregularities from worn tracks to extend...
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    can carry. Other profiles of rail include: bullhead rail; grooved rail; flat-bottomed rail (Vignoles rail or flanged T-rail); bridge rail (inverted U–shaped...
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    gauge is a two-dimensional profile that encompasses a cross-section of the track, a rail vehicle and a maximum-sized load: all rail vehicles and their loads...
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  • Power supply rail or voltage rail, a single voltage provided by a power supply unit Rail profile, the cross sectional shape of a railway rail Railing (disambiguation)...
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  • paper in offset printing Web, the vertical element of an I-beam or a rail profile Web, the interior beams of a truss Web (2013 film), a documentary Webs...
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  • (in the case of steel plate) a torch which burns oxy-acetylene or other oxy-gas. Hollow structural section Metal profiles Rail profile Structural steel...
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    indicate deviations. The vertical alignment (or profile in North America, but not to be confused with rail profile) is the surface uniformity in the vertical...
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  • re-profiled with rail grinding machines to maintain the safe and proper rail profile. Rails that cannot be brought back to the proper rail profile are...
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  • Pound (mass), a unit of mass Pound (force), a unit of force Rail pound, in rail profile A basis weight of paper, related to grammage Pound sign, the...
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    The Metro Rail Transit Line 3, also known as the MRT Line 3, MRT-3 or Metrostar Express, is a light rapid transit system line of Metro Manila, the Philippines...
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    or a belt. A longitudinal channel formed in a hot rolled rail profile such as a grooved rail. This groove is for the flange on a train wheel. Grooves...
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    Train wheel (redirect from Rail wheel)
    a profile, before being installed onto an axle. All wheel profiles are regularly checked to ensure proper interaction between the wheel and the rail. Incorrectly...
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  • Block rail is a lower profile form of girder guard rail, where the web is eliminated. In profile it is more like a solid form of bridge rail with a flangeway...
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  • History of trams (category Light rail)
    unreliable. Siemens' line, for example, provided power through a live rail and a return rail, like a model train, limiting the voltage that could be used, and...
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    The Light Rail Transit Line 2, also known as LRT Line 2, LRT-2 or Megatren, is a heavy rail rapid transit line in Metro Manila in the Philippines, generally...
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    Barlow rail. Loughor railway viaduct was rebuilt in 1880 and the new decking was constructed of Barlow rail, laid crosswise. Rail profile Rail tracks...
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    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 transition...
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    operated by Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC) and owned by the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) as part of the Manila Light Rail Transit System. Originally...
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  • enterprise Operation Blue Star Original British Standard, a bullhead rail profile OBSS (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    management systems to create a profile of the track being inspected. Track geometry cars emerged in the 1920s when rail traffic became sufficiently dense...
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    Railroad switch (redirect from Rail switch)
    1920s on the German Reichsbahn. The first step was to have different rail profile for the stock rails and switch rails, with the switch rails being about...
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    compares the rail to a pre-determined profile in order to identify damage. Each rail is identified using its Differential GPS location. The rail inspection...
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  • The history of rail transport in Germany can be traced back to the 16th century. The earliest form of railways, wagonways, were developed in Germany in...
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    Tram (redirect from Trolley (rail))
    trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of a rail vehicle, either individual railcars or self-propelled trains...
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    dovetail rail usually refer to any straight mounting bracket with an inverted trapezoid (dovetail) cross-section (though the hexagonal-profiled Weaver rail and...
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    Wagonway (redirect from Edge rail)
    cars. Trains portal Barlow rail Granite Railway Guide rail Hay Railway Holy Island Waggonway Horsecar Mine railway Rail profile Verdelis, Nikolaos (1957)...
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    models (but particularly older models), and these require overscale rail profile and much larger clearances on pointwork than is prototypical. Pointwork...
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    lines Rail gauge Rail lengths Rail profile Rail sabotage Railroad switch (points) Rail tracks Rail terminology Railway platform Strap iron rail Structure...
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  • research program circa 2010 to 2012 Revised British Standard, a bullhead rail profile Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford Line, a railway line in England Orbost Airport...
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