Railway

Railway

Relating to the infrastructure developed for the transport of trains.

Industry: Transportation

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All-relay interlocking with sectional route release

Transportation; Railway

Signalbox with push-button route-setting free from any mechanical interlocking and equipped with sectional release route locking, whereby all interlockings are performed using electrical circuits and ...

Contraflow track

Transportation; Railway

System for running a line with one or more tracks used by trains travelling in both directions. On these tracks, safety devices are installed to ensure that trains are not dispatched in head-on ...

Ambulance train

Transportation; Railway

Standard train used during WWI for ferrying patients. The train included a pharmacy car, kitchens, a personnel car, a brake car and a stores van.

Swing bridge

Transportation; Railway

Bridge fitted with rails that can rotate 360° and generally used in depots for turning locomotives (as steam engines only had one driver's cab, they had to be turned to face the right direction) or ...