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23 relations: Adhesion railway, Cable car (railway), Elevator, Fell mountain railway system, Friction, Funicular, Gear, Gelmer Funicular, Grade (slope), Hillclimbing (railway), List of funicular railways, List of steepest gradients on adhesion railways, Mountain, Mountain railway, Pöstlingbergbahn, Pilatus Railway, Rack and pinion, Rack railway, San Francisco cable car system, Tourism, Track brake, Winter sport, Wire rope.
Adhesion railway
An adhesion railway relies on adhesion traction to move the train.
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Cable car (railway)
A cable car (cable tram elsewhere, apart from North America) is a type of cable transportation used for mass transit where rail cars are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed.
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Elevator
An elevator (US and Canada) or lift (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa, Nigeria) is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure.
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Fell mountain railway system
The Fell system was the first third-rail system for railways that were too steep to be worked by adhesion on the two running rails alone.
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Friction
Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.
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Funicular
A funicular is one of the modes of transport, along with a cable railway and an inclined elevator, which uses a cable traction for movement on a steep slope.
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Gear
A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut like teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part to transmit torque.
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Gelmer Funicular
The Gelmer Funicular is a funicular railway in the canton of Bern, Switzerland.
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Grade (slope)
The grade (also called slope, incline, gradient, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.
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Hillclimbing (railway)
Hillclimbing is a problem faced by railway systems when a load must be carried up an incline.
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List of funicular railways
This is a list of funicular railways, organised by place within country and continent.
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List of steepest gradients on adhesion railways
The inclusion of steep gradients on railways avoids the expensive engineering works required to produce more gentle gradients.
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Mountain
A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.
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Mountain railway
A mountain railway is a railway that operates in a mountainous region.
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Pöstlingbergbahn
The Pöstlingbergbahn is a narrow-gauge electric railway, or "mountain tramway", in Linz, Austria.
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Pilatus Railway
The Pilatus Railway (Pilatusbahn, PB) is a mountain railway in Switzerland and is the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%.
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Rack and pinion
A rack and pinion is a type of linear actuator that comprises a pair of gears which convert rotational motion into linear motion.
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Rack railway
A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails.
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San Francisco cable car system
The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system.
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Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.
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Track brake
Track brakes are a form of brakes unique to railborne vehicles.
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Winter sport
A winter sport or winter activity is a recreational activity or sport which is played on snow or ice.
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Wire rope
Steel wire rope (right hand langs lay) Wire rope is several strands of metal wire twisted into a helix forming a composite "rope", in a pattern known as "laid rope".
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steep_grade_railway
