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About Cable railway
Cable railway - photo wallpapers; Megawallpapers.org Cable railways are steeply graded railways that use a cable or rope to haul trains. The gradient of these lines is typically so steep that a conventional adhesion train could not climb the track. Most commonly the cable is operated by a stationary engine, although other methods such a gravity or water balance are also used. Many cable railways connect to conventional adhesion lines at their top and bottom, allowing trains to be lifted from a lower line to a higher one. A specific type of cable railway is the funicular which is a self-contained railway, unconnected to another line. This requires the loading and unloading of passengers and goods at both ends. In the United Kingdom cable railways are sometimes known as "inclined planes" or simply "inclines".
Normally graded tracks are arranged above and below the gradient to allow wagons to be moved onto the incline either singularly or in short rakes of two or more. On the incline itself the tracks may be interlaced to reduce the width of land needed. This may mean that a single track of two rails or a three-rail track where trains share a common rail. At the centre of the incline there will be a passing loop to allow where ascending and descending trains pass each other (a gantlet track). Railway workers attach the cable to the upper wagon, and detatch it when it arrives at the other end of the incline. Generally special-purpose safety couplings are used rather than the ordinary wagon couplings. The cables may be guided between the rails on the incline by a series of rollers so that they do not fall across the rail where they would be damaged by the wheels on the wagons. A few inclines hauled up locomotives using the cable, but these were comparatively rare as it was normally cheaper to provide a separate fleet of locomotives on either side of the incline, or else to work the level sections with horses. On early railways, cable-worked inclines were also used ...
Cable railway - photo wallpapers; Megawallpapers.org Cable railways are steeply graded railways that use a cable or rope to haul trains. The gradient of these lines is typically so steep that a conventional adhesion train could not climb the track. Most commonly the cable is operated by a stationary engine, although other methods such a gravity or water balance are also used. Many cable railways connect to conventional adhesion lines at their top and bottom, allowing trains to be lifted from a lower line to a higher one. A specific type of cable railway is the funicular which is a self-contained railway, unconnected to another line. This requires the loading and unloading of passengers and goods at both ends. In the United Kingdom cable railways are sometimes known as "inclined planes" or simply "inclines".
Normally graded tracks are arranged above and below the gradient to allow wagons to be moved onto the incline either singularly or in short rakes of two or more. On the incline itself the tracks may be interlaced to reduce the width of land needed. This may mean that a single track of two rails or a three-rail track where trains share a common rail. At the centre of the incline there will be a passing loop to allow where ascending and descending trains pass each other (a gantlet track). Railway workers attach the cable to the upper wagon, and detatch it when it arrives at the other end of the incline. Generally special-purpose safety couplings are used rather than the ordinary wagon couplings. The cables may be guided between the rails on the incline by a series of rollers so that they do not fall across the rail where they would be damaged by the wheels on the wagons. A few inclines hauled up locomotives using the cable, but these were comparatively rare as it was normally cheaper to provide a separate fleet of locomotives on either side of the incline, or else to work the level sections with horses. On early railways, cable-worked inclines were also used ...
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