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    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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Chenab Rail 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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  • Thumbnail for Penang Hill Railway
    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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  • Thumbnail for State Railway of Thailand
    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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  • Thumbnail for Gauntlet track
    Gauntlet track or interlaced track (also gantlet track) is an arrangement in which railway tracks run parallel on a single track bed and are interlaced...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Quadruple-track railway
    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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for Bangabandhu Railway Bridge
    the bridge does not allow trains to run at full speed and being a single-track railway takes longer to cross the bridge, trains are prone to schedule disruptions...
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    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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    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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    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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    Siding (rail) (redirect from Team track)
    efficiency on single track lines, and add to the capacity of other lines. Private siding describes a siding not belonging to a railway, but linking a...
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  • Thumbnail for Delhi Sarai Rohilla railway station
    started from Sarai Rohilla which became a railway terminus. By September 2006, the second metre-gauge track from Sarai Rohilla to Rewari was also converted...
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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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    Monorail (redirect from Track beam)
    A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or a beam. Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of...
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    passenger and freight railway services on 1,097 km (682 mi) of track in Taiwan. Passenger traffic in 2018 was 231,267,955. The railway was previously operated...
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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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  • 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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    590 notably retained its original form until its demise. The railway is a single track line with passing loops at Dinas, Waunfawr, Rhyd Ddu, Beddgelert...
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    Funicular (redirect from Funicular railway)
    (/fjuːˈnɪkjʊlər, f(j)ʊ-, 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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    Arms. The line was originally planned as double-track, but was built and operated as a single-track railway. Prior to preservation, the Severn Valley line...
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    railroad system totals only 680 kilometres (420 mi) of non-electrified, single-track railway, all of it 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) broad gauge. The system connects...
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