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67 relations: Abraham Fitzgibbon, Acronym, Akershus, Articulated locomotive, Østfold Line, Bergen Line, Break of gauge, Buffers and chain coupler, Cape Colony, Cape Government Railways, Chalmers University of Technology, Civil engineer, Decauville, Duke of Sutherland, Everard Calthrop, Ffestiniog Railway, Gasworks, General Register Office for England and Wales, Gloucester railway station, Gothenburg, Grand Trunk Railway, Henry Archer, Henry Tyler (Conservative politician), Institution of Civil Engineers, Ipswich, John Ericsson, Kongsvinger Line, Loading gauge, London and North Western Railway, Meråker Line, Ministry of Labour (Norway), Namaqualand Railway, Narrow-gauge railway, Newfoundland and Labrador, Norway, Norwegian coupling, Norwegian Railway Club, Norwegian Railway Museum, Norwegian State Railways, Norwegian State Railways (1883–1996), Oslo, Paul Decauville, Pumping station, Queensland, Queensland Rail, Railway coupling, Røros Line, Registration district, Robert Francis Fairlie, Robert Stephenson, ..., Royal Commission on Railway Gauges, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sørlandet Line, Seaman, Skien, South Africa, Standard-gauge railway, Stavanger, Suffolk, Telemark Canal, The Sydney Morning Herald, Thomas Hall (railway engineer), Toronto and Nipissing Railway, Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway, Transshipment, Trondhjem–Støren Line, Trunk Line. Expand index (17 more) »
Abraham Fitzgibbon
Abraham 'Abram' Fitzgibbon (23 January 1823 – 4 April 1887) was an Irish-born railroad engineer and a pioneer for narrow-gauge railways.
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Acronym
An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in NATO or laser) and sometimes syllables (as in Benelux).
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Akershus
Akershus is a county in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo, and Østfold; it also has a short border with Sweden (Värmland).
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Articulated locomotive
The term "articulated locomotive" usually means a steam locomotive with one or more engine units which can move independent of the main frame.
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Østfold Line
The Østfold Line (Østfoldbanen) is a railway line which runs from Oslo through the western parts of Follo and Østfold to Kornsjø in Norway.
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Bergen Line
The Bergen Line or the Bergen Railway (Bergensbanen or Bergensbana), is a long scenic standard gauge railway line between Bergen and Hønefoss, Norway.
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Break of gauge
With railways, a break of gauge occurs where a line of one gauge meets a line of a different gauge.
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Buffers and chain coupler
Buffers and chain coupler (also called buffers and screw, screw coupler, or English coupler; in EU standards, it's two devices: buffers and draw gear and screw coupling) is the standard train coupling system used in Europe, outside the former Soviet Union.
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Cape Colony
The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), was a British colony in present-day South Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope.
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Cape Government Railways
The Cape Government Railways (CGR) was the government-owned railway operator in the Cape Colony from 1874 until the creation of the South African Railways (SAR) in 1910.
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Chalmers University of Technology
Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers tekniska högskola, often shortened to Chalmers) is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that focuses on research and education in technology, natural science, architecture, maritime and other management areas.
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Civil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.
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Decauville
Decauville was a manufacturing company was founded by Paul Decauville (1846–1922), a French pioneer in industrial railways.
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Duke of Sutherland
John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, by Allan Warren Duke of Sutherland is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom which was created by William IV in 1833 for George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford.
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Everard Calthrop
Everard Richard Calthrop (3 March 1857 – 30 March 1927) was a British railway engineer and inventor.
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Ffestiniog Railway
The Ffestiniog Railway (Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in Gwynedd, Wales.
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Gasworks
A gasworks or gas house is an industrial plant for the production of flammable gas.
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General Register Office for England and Wales
The General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO) is the section of the United Kingdom HM Passport Office responsible for the civil registration of births (including stillbirths), adoptions, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths in England and Wales and for those same events outside the UK if they involve a UK citizen and qualify to be registered in various miscellaneous registers.
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Gloucester railway station
Gloucester railway station (formerly known as Gloucester Central station) is a railway station serving the city of Gloucester in England.
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Gothenburg
Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries.
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Grand Trunk Railway
The Grand Trunk Railway was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
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Henry Archer
Henry Archer (1799–1863) was the son of an Irish landowner and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
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Henry Tyler (Conservative politician)
Sir Henry Whatley Tyler (7 March 1827 - 1908) was a British Inspector of Railways, Railway Company director and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1892.
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Institution of Civil Engineers
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom.
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Ipswich
Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk, England, located on the estuary of the River Orwell, about north east of London.
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John Ericsson
John Ericsson (born Johan) (July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American inventor, active in England and the United States, and regarded as one of the most influential mechanical engineers ever.
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Kongsvinger Line
The Kongsvinger Line (Kongsvingerbanen) is a railway line between the towns of Lillestrøm and Kongsvinger in Norway and onwards to Charlottenberg in Sweden.
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Loading gauge
A loading gauge defines the maximum height and width for railway vehicles and their loads to ensure safe passage through bridges, tunnels and other structures.
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London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.
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Meråker Line
The Meråker Line (Meråkerbanen) is a railway line which runs through the district and valley of Stjørdalen in Trøndelag county, Norway.
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Ministry of Labour (Norway)
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Arbeids- og sosialdepartementet) is a Norwegian ministry established in 1916.
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Namaqualand Railway
The Namaqualand Railway was a narrow gauge railway operating between Port Nolloth and O'okiep in the Namaqualand region of the former Cape Colony in South Africa.
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Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.
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Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; Akamassiss; Newfoundland Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradar) is the most easterly province of Canada.
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Norway
Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.
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Norwegian coupling
A Norwegian coupling (or meat chopper) is a manual coupling consisting of a central buffer with a mechanical hook that drops into a slot in the central buffer.
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Norwegian Railway Club
The Norwegian Railway Club (Norsk Jernbaneklubb) is an association which is involved in the preservation of Norwegian museum railways.
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Norwegian Railway Museum
The Norwegian Railway Museum (Norsk Jernbanemuseum) is located at Hamar in Hedmark, Norway.
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Norwegian State Railways
Norges Statsbaner AS, trading as NSB AS and known in English as the Norwegian State Railways, is a government-owned railway company which operates most passenger train services in Norway.
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Norwegian State Railways (1883–1996)
The Norwegian State Railways (Norges Statsbaner or NSB) was a state-owned railway company that operated most of the railway network in Norway.
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Oslo
Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.
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Paul Decauville
Paul Decauville (1846–1922) was a French engineer and businessman.
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Pumping station
Pumping stations are facilities including pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Queensland Rail
Queensland Rail, also known as QR, is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia.
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Railway coupling
A coupling (or a coupler) is a mechanism for connecting rolling stock in a train.
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Røros Line
The Røros Line (Rørosbanen) is a railway line which runs through the districts of Hedmarken, Østerdalen and Gauldalen in Hedmark and Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.
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Registration district
A registration district in the United Kingdom is a type of administrative region which exists for the purpose of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths and civil partnerships.
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Robert Francis Fairlie
Robert Francis Fairlie (born either March 1831 or 5 April 1830, in Glasgow, died 31 July 1885, in London) was a Scottish-born railway engineer.
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Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an early railway and civil engineer.
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Royal Commission on Railway Gauges
The Royal Commission on Railway Gauges was held in the United Kingdom in 1845 to choose between the Broad Gauge of the Great Western Railway and its allies, and the so-called narrow gauge used by most of the rest of the country.
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.
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Sørlandet Line
The Sørlandet Line (Sørlandsbanen) is a railway line between Drammen (though this is connected to Oslo by means of the Drammen Line) via Kristiansand to Stavanger.
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Seaman
Seaman is a naval rank and is either the lowest or one of the lowest ranks in most navies around the world.
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Skien
Skien is a city and municipality in Telemark county, Norway.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Standard-gauge railway
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.
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Stavanger
Stavanger is a city and municipality in Norway.
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Suffolk
Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.
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Telemark Canal
The Telemark Canal connects Skien to Dalen in southern Norway by linking several long lakes in the Skien watershed through a series of 18 locks.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.
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Thomas Hall (railway engineer)
Richard Thomas Hall, born 31 May 1823, was a British railway engineer.
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Toronto and Nipissing Railway
The Toronto and Nipissing Railway, T&N, was the first public narrow-gauge railway in North America.
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Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway
The Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway was chartered in 1868 to build a narrow-gauge railway from Toronto to Grey and Bruce Counties in Ontario, Canada.
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Transshipment
Transshipment or transhipment is the shipment of goods or containers to an intermediate destination, then to yet another destination.
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Trondhjem–Støren Line
The Trondhjem–Støren Line was Trøndelag's first railway.
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Trunk Line
The Trunk Line (Hovedbanen) is a railway line in Norway which runs between Oslo and Eidsvoll.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Abraham_Pihl
