Track gauge

In rail transport, track gauge is the spacing of the rails on a railway track and is measured between the inner faces of the load-bearing rails. ^[1]

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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Abuja

Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria located in the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

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Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway

The Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway is a new standard gauge international railway that serves as the backbone of the new Ethiopian National Railway Network.

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Airport Link Company

The Airport Link Company operates Green Square, Mascot, Domestic Airport and International Airport railway stations on the T2 Airport & South line of the Sydney Trains network in Sydney, Australia.

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Alvia

Alvia is a high-speed train in Spain used by Renfe Operadora for long-distance service with a top speed of 250 km/h.

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Antofagasta

Antofagasta is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago.

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Arbroath and Forfar Railway

The Arbroath and Forfar Railway was a railway that connected Forfar with the port town of Arbroath, in Scotland.

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Arthur Heywood

Sir Arthur Percival Heywood, 3rd Baronet (25 December 1849 – 19 April 1916) was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Percival Heywood.

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AVE

Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) is a service of high-speed rail in Spain operated by Renfe, the Spanish national railway company, at speeds of up to.

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Bangladesh Railway

Bangladesh Railway (বাংলাদেশ রেলওয়ে) is the state owned rail transport agency of Bangladesh.

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Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), is a rapid transit public transportation system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

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Bernese Oberland Railway

| The Bernese Oberland Railway (or correctly translated Bernese Highlands Railway; Berner Oberland-Bahn, BOB) is a narrow-gauge mountain railway in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland.

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Billerica and Bedford Railroad

| The Billerica and Bedford Railroad was an early narrow gauge railroad in Massachusetts, built to demonstrate the advantages of a gauge railroad.

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Bogie exchange

Bogie exchange is a system for operating railway wagons on two or more gauges to overcome difference in the track gauge.

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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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Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.

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Broad-gauge railway

A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge broader than the standard-gauge railways.

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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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Bulgarian State Railways

The Bulgarian State Railways (Български държавни железници, Balgarski darzhavni zheleznitsi, abbreviated as БДЖ, BDZ or BDŽ) are Bulgaria's state railway company and the largest railway carrier in the country, established as an entity in 1885.

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Calea Ferată din Moldova

Calea Ferată din Moldova (abbreviated as CFM) is the sole railway operator in the Republic of Moldova, responsible for passenger and cargo transportation, as well as railway infrastructure maintenance within the country.

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Calipers

A caliper (British spelling also calliper, or in plurale tantum sense a pair of calipers) is a device used to measure the distance between two opposite sides of an object.

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Carl Abraham Pihl

Carl Abraham Pihl (16 January 1825 – 14 September 1897) was a Norwegian civil engineer and director of the Norwegian State Railways (NSB) from 1865 until his death.

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Cascavel

Cascavel is a municipality located in the western region of the state of Paraná, Brazil.

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Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, and railways.

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Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles

Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (Grupo CAF) (literally "Construction & Other Railway Services") is a Spanish publicly-listed company which manufactures railway vehicles and equipment. It is based in Beasain in the Basque Country. Equipment manufactured by Grupo CAF includes light rail vehicles, rapid transit trains, railroad cars and locomotives, as well as variable gauge axles that can be fitted on any existing truck or bogie. Over the 20 years from the early 1990s, CAF benefitted from the rail investment boom in its home market in Spain to become a world player with a broad technical capability, able to manufacture almost any type of rail vehicle. CAF has supplied railway rolling stock to a number of major urban transit operators around Europe, the US, South America, East Asia, India and North Africa.

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CPCS Transcom Limited

CPCS Transcom Limited (commonly known as CPCS) is an award-winning international infrastructure development firm specialising in private sector participation in transportation and power infrastructure, operations, investment, policy and regulation.

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Croatian Railways

Croatian Railways (Hrvatske željeznice, HŽ) is the national railway company of Croatia.

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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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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company.

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Dual gauge

A dual gauge railway is a track that allows the passage of trains of two different track gauges.

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Dundee and Newtyle Railway

The Dundee and Newtyle Railway opened in 1831 and was the first railway in the north of Scotland.

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East African Community

The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organization composed of six countries in the African Great Lakes region in eastern Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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East African Railway Master Plan

The East African Railway Master Plan is a proposal for rejuvenating railways serving Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda and adding railways to serve Rwanda and Burundi.

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Eastern Counties Railway

The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) was an English railway company incorporated in 1836 intended to link London with Ipswich via Colchester, and then extend to Norwich and Yarmouth.

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Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado

Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (EFE) is the national railway of Chile.

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Estonia

Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Euskotren Trena

Euskotren Trena, formerly known just as Euskotren is a commuter, inter-city and urban transit train operating company that operates local and inter-city passenger services in the provinces of Biscay and Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country, Spain.

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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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Federal Railroad Administration

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation (DOT).

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Ferrocarriles de Cuba

Ferrocarriles de Cuba (FCC) or Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Cuba (English: National Railway Company of Cuba), the only railway operating in the Caribbean islands, provides passenger and freight services for Cuba.

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Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya

Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya ("Catalan Government Railways"), or FGC, is a railway company which operates several unconnected lines in Catalonia, Spain.

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Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana

Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana ("Valencian Government Railways") or FGV is a Valencian public railway company which operates several lines, in the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.

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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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Foot (unit)

The foot (feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: ′, the prime symbol) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement.

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Francis Whishaw

Francis Whishaw (13 July 1804 – October 1856) was an English civil engineer.

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Gauge War

The Gauge War (or Gauge Wars) was a figurative war of intense competition to control new territory, waged between expanding railway companies in Great Britain in the nineteenth century.

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George Stephenson

George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer.

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George Washington Whistler

George Washington Whistler (May 19, 1800 – April 7, 1849) was a prominent American civil engineer best known for building steam locomotives and railroads.

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Georgian Railways

Georgian Railway LLC (საქართველოს რკინიგზა, Sakartvelos Rkinigza) is the national railway company of Georgia.

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Glossary of rail transport terms

Rail terminology is a form of technical terminology.

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Grand Junction Railway

The Grand Junction Railway (GJR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846 when it was amalgamated with other railways to form the London and North Western Railway.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

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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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High-speed rail

High-speed rail is a type of rail transport that operates significantly faster than traditional rail traffic, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks.

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Horatio Allen

Horatio Allen (May 10, 1802 – December 31, 1889) was an American civil engineer and inventor, and President of Erie Railroad in the year 1843–1844.

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Iberian-gauge railways

Iberian-gauge railways (ancho ibérico, trocha ibérica, bitola ibérica) is the name given to the railways using track gauge of, most extensively used by the railways of Spain and Portugal.

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Imperial units

The system of imperial units or the imperial system (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1825) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which was later refined and reduced.

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Indochina

Indochina, originally Indo-China, is a geographical term originating in the early nineteenth century and referring to the continental portion of the region now known as Southeast Asia.

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Industrial railway

An industrial railway is a type of railway (usually private) that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular industrial, logistics or a military site.

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Intermodal container

An intermodal container is a large standardized shipping container, designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – from ship to rail to truck – without unloading and reloading their cargo.

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International System of Units

The International System of Units (SI, abbreviated from the French Système international (d'unités)) is the modern form of the metric system, and is the most widely used system of measurement.

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International yard and pound

The international yard and pound are two units of measurement that were the subject of an agreement among representatives of six nations signed on 1 July 1959, namely the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".

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James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie

James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (22 April 1812 – 19 December 1860), styled Lord Ramsay until 1838 and known as The Earl of Dalhousie between 1838 and 1849, was a Scottish statesman, and a colonial administrator in British India.

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Janney coupler

The Janney Coupler is a semi-automatic railway coupler.

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Kaduna

Kaduna is the state capital of Kaduna State in north-western Nigeria, on the Kaduna River, is a trade centre and a major transportation hub for the surrounding agricultural areas with its rail and road junction.

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Kazakhstan Temir Zholy

Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ; Qazaqstan Temir Joly (QTJ)), also National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, is the national railway company of Kazakhstan.

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Kribi

Kribi is a beach resort and sea port in Cameroon.

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Kyrgyz Railways

The Kyrgyz Railway (KTJ) is the national railway developer of Kyrgyzstan.

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Lagos–Kano Standard Gauge Railway

The Lagos–Kano Standard Gauge Railway is a planned standard gauge railway across Nigeria, from the Atlantic Ocean port of Lagos to Kano, near the Niger border.

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Latvia

Latvia (or; Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika), is a sovereign state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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List of track gauges

This list presents an overview of railway track gauges by size.

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List of tram track gauges

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe.

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Lithuanian Railways

Lithuanian Railways (Lietuvos geležinkeliai) is the national, state-owned railway company of Lithuania.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was a railway opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England.

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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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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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London and Birmingham Railway

The London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, existing from 1833 to 1846, when it became part of the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR).

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Makedonski Železnici

Makedonski Železnici (MŽ) (Македонски Железници, Macedonian Railways) is the public enterprise for railways in the Republic of Macedonia.

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Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn

The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn is a narrow gauge railway line and a railway company (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn AG, MGB) in Switzerland.

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Metre-gauge railway

Metre-gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre.

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Metric system

The metric system is an internationally adopted decimal system of measurement.

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Minimum railway curve radius

The minimum railway curve radius is the shortest allowable design radius for the centre line of railway tracks under a particular set of conditions.

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Minimum-gauge railway

Minimum-gauge railways have a gauge of most commonly,,,, or.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway

The Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is a standard-gauge railway that connects Kenya's port city of Mombasa to Nairobi, the nation's capital.

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Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway

The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway was an early mineral railway running from a colliery at Monklands to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Kirkintilloch, Scotland.

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Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway

The Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway (Chemin de fer Montreux Oberland bernois, Montreux Berner Oberland Bahn, abbreviated MOB), is a railway operating in southwest Switzerland, one of the oldest electric railways in the country; its main line, in length, built to gauge, connects Montreux, Gstaad, and Zweisimmen, where passengers can transfer to the BLS AG owned, and standard gauge, Zweisimmen to Spiez line.

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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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Network effect

A network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale) is the positive effect described in economics and business that an additional user of a good or service has on the value of that product to others.

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Oakajee, Western Australia

Oakajee is a locality in the Mid West region of Western Australia, about north of the city of Geraldton.

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Obsolete German units of measurement

The obsolete units of measurement of German-speaking countries consist of a variety of units, with varying local standard definitions.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.

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Pakistan Railways

Pakistan Railways (پاکستان ریلویز) is the national, state-owned railway company of Pakistan.

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Paranaguá

Paranaguá (Great Round Sea, in Tupi) is a city in the state of Paraná in Brazil.

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Portuguese customary units

Portuguese customary units were used in Portugal, Brazil and other parts of the Portuguese Empire until the adoption of the metric system in the 19th century.

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Queensland Rail

Queensland Rail, also known as QR, is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia.

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Rail Baltica

Rail Baltica (in Estonia also known as Rail Baltic and the Baltic part referred to as the Rail Baltica Global Project) is a greenfield railway infrastructure project to link Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland with a European standard gauge rail line, providing passenger and freight service between the countries and improving rail connections between Central and Northern Europe as well as acting as a catalyst for building the economic corridor in the Northeastern Europe.

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Rail profile

The rail profile is the cross sectional shape of a railway rail, perpendicular to its length.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Rail transport in Albania

The railways in Albania are administered by the national railway company Hekurudha Shqiptare (HSH) (which means Albanian Railways).

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Rail transport in Argentina

The Argentine railway network consisted of a network at the end of the Second World War and was, in its time, one of the most extensive and prosperous in the world.

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Rail transport in Australia

Rail transport in Australia is a crucial aspect of the Australian transport network.

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Rail transport in Austria

Rail transport in Austria is mainly owned by the national rail company ÖBB.

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Rail transport in Azerbaijan

Rail transport in Azerbaijan is operated by the national state-owned railway company Azerbaijan Railways (Azərbaycanda Dəmiryolu).

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Rail transport in Belarus

Rail transport in Belarus is owned by the national rail company BŽD / BČ (be: Bielaruskaja Čyhunka / ru: Belorusskaja Železnaja Doroga).

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Rail transport in Belgium

Belgium has an extensive rail network.

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Rail transport in Bolivia

The Bolivian rail network has had a peculiar development throughout its history; owing to losses of land, prestige and credit rating due to the failure of the War of the Pacific, railway development came late to Bolivia.

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Rail transport in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Railway operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina are successors of the Yugoslav Railways within the country boundaries following independence from the Former Yugoslavia in March 1992.

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Rail transport in Brazil

Rail transport in Brazil began in the 19th century and there were many different railway companies.

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Rail transport in Canada

Canada has a large and well-developed railway system that today transports primarily freight.

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Rail transport in China

Rail transport is an important mode of long-distance transportation in the People's Republic of China.

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Rail transport in Colombia

The Colombia railway network has a total length of.

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Rail transport in Denmark

The rail transport system in Denmark consists of 2,633 km of railway lines, of which the Copenhagen S-train network, the main line Helsingør-Copenhagen-Padborg (at the German border), and the Lunderskov-Esbjerg line are electrified.

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Rail transport in Djibouti

Rail transport in Djibouti is administered through the Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Rail Transport Share Company, a bi-national company between Ethiopia and Djibouti to manage the only railway in Djibouti, the electrified standard gauge international Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway.

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Rail transport in Estonia

The rail transport system in Estonia consists of about of railway lines, of which are currently in public use.

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Rail transport in Ethiopia

Rail transport in Ethiopia is done within the National Railway Network of Ethiopia, which is mostly in planning and construction stage and currently consists of four electrified standard gauge railway lines: the Addis Ababa Light Rail, the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, the Awash–Weldiya Railway and the Weldiya–Mekelle Railway.

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Rail transport in Finland

The Finnish railway network consists of a total of 5,919 km of railways built with Russian gauge track.

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Rail transport in France

Rail transport in France is operated mostly by SNCF, the French national railway company.

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Rail transport in Germany

, Germany had a railway network of 33,331 km of which 19,983 km were electrified and 18,201 km were double track.

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Rail transport in Great Britain

The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world.

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Rail transport in Hungary

Rail transport in Hungary is mainly owned by the national rail company MÁV, with a significant portion of the network owned and operated by GySEV.

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Rail transport in India

Rail transport is an important mode of transport in India.

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Rail transport in Indonesia

The majority of Indonesia's railways are on Java, used for both passenger and freight transport.

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Rail transport in Ireland

Heavy Rail services in Ireland (InterCity, commuter and freight) are provided by Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and by Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland.

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Rail transport in Israel

Rail transport in Israel includes heavy rail (inter-city, commuter, and freight rail) as well as light rail.

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Rail transport in Italy

The Italian railway system is one of the most important parts of the infrastructure of Italy, with a total length of of which active lines are 16,723 km.

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Rail transport in Japan

Rail transport in Japan is a major means of passenger transport, especially for mass and high-speed travel between major cities and for commuter transport in metropolitan areas.

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Rail transport in Latvia

Rail transport in Latvia is done on Russian gauge.

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Rail transport in Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein's railway is operated by the Austrian Federal Railways.

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Rail transport in Mexico

Mexico has a freight railway system owned by the national government and operated by various entities under concessions (charters) granted by the national government.

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Rail transport in Mongolia

Rail transport in Mongolia is an important means of travel in the landlocked country of Mongolia, which has relatively few paved roads.

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Rail transport in Montenegro

Rail transport in Montenegro is operated by four separate companies, which independently handle railway infrastructure, passenger transport, cargo transport and maintenance of the rolling stock.

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Rail transport in New Zealand

Rail transport in New Zealand is primarily provided by KiwiRail and focused on bulk freight, with a small number of tourist orientated passenger services, such as the, and.

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Rail transport in Nigeria

Railways in Nigeria are operated by the Nigerian Railway Corporation.

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Rail transport in North Korea

Rail transport in North Korea is provided by Korean State Railway (조선 민주주의 인민 공화국 철도성, Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk Ch'ŏldosŏng) which is the only rail operator in North Korea.

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Rail transport in Norway

The Norwegian railway system comprises 4,087 km of (standard gauge) track of which 2,622 km is electrified and 242 km double track.

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Rail transport in Panama

Since 2008, the only functioning railroad in Panama has been the Panama Canal Railway, operated by the Panama Canal Railway Company, successor of Panama Railway, which provides passenger and freight service between Panama City (on the Pacific coast) and Colón (on the Atlantic coast).

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Rail transport in Paraguay

The Rail system in Paraguay consisted primarily of a 376 km main line of standard gauge between Asunción and Encarnación (with a connection to Posadas, Argentina).

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Rail transport in Peru

Rail transport in Peru has a varied history.

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Rail transport in Poland

The Polish railways network consists of around of track as of 2015, of which the vast majority is electrified at 3 kV DC overhead.

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Rail transport in Queensland

The Queensland rail network, the first in the world to adopt narrow gauge for a main line, and now the second largest narrow gauge network in the world, consists of.

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Rail transport in Romania

The first railway in the Kingdom of Romania opened in 1869 and linked Bucharest and Giurgiu.

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Rail transport in Russia

The Russian railways are ranked second longest globally, behind the railways of the United States.

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Rail transport in Slovakia

Rail transport in Slovakia began on 21 September 1840, with the opening of the first horse-powered line from Bratislava to Svätý Jur (at that time in Kingdom of Hungary).

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Rail transport in South Korea

The rail transportation system in South Korea includes mainline railway lines and rapid transit system in some major cities.

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Rail transport in Spain

Rail transport in Spain operates on four rail gauges and services are operated by a variety of private and public operators.

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Rail transport in Sri Lanka

Rail transport in Sri Lanka is an intercity network connecting major population centres and commuter rail serving Colombo commuters.

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Rail transport in Sweden

Rail transport in Sweden uses a network of 13,000 km of track, the 21st largest in the world.

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Rail transport in Switzerland

The Swiss rail network is noteworthy for its density, its coordination between services, its integration with other modes of transport, timeliness and a thriving domestic and trans-alp freight system.

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Rail transport in Taiwan

Rail transport in Taiwan consists of 1691.8 km (as of 2015) of railway networks.

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Rail transport in Tajikistan

Rail transport in Tajikistan is limited, as the railroad system totals only of non-electrified, single-track railway, all of it broad gauge.

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Rail transport in Thailand

The railway network of Thailand is managed and operated by the State Railway of Thailand (SRT).

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Rail transport in the Czech Republic

Rail transport in the Czech Republic carried 162.906 million passengers and 68.37 million tonnes of cargo in the year 2009.

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Rail transport in the Netherlands

Rail transport in the Netherlands uses a dense railway network, that connects virtually all major towns and cities, counting as many train stations as there are municipalities in the Netherlands.

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Rail transport in the Philippines

Rail transport in the Philippines is used mostly to transport passengers within Metro Manila and the nearby province of Laguna.

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Rail transport in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and previously consisted of Great Britain and the whole of Ireland.

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Rail transport in Ukraine

Rail transport in Ukraine is a mode of transport by railroad in Ukraine.

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Rail transport in Uruguay

The Uruguayan railway network has approximately of lines, all of gauge, diesel traction with only of double track.

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Rail transport in Uzbekistan

Rail transport in Uzbekistan.

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Rail transport in Western Australia

The Railways in Western Australia were developed in the 19th century both by the Government of Western Australia and a number of private companies.

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Rail transport modelling scales

Rail transport modelling uses a variety of scales (ratio between the real world and the model) to ensure scale models look correct when placed next to each other.

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Rail transportation in the United States

Rail transportation in the United States consists primarily of freight shipments, while passenger service, once a large and vital part of the nation's passenger transportation network, plays a limited role as compared to transportation patterns in many other countries.

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Railroad car

A railroad car or railcar (American and Canadian English), railway wagon or railway carriage (British English and UIC), also called a train car or train wagon, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport system (a railroad/railway).

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Railroad tie

A railroad tie/railway tie/crosstie (North America) or railway sleeper (Britain, Ireland, South Asia, Australasia, and Africa) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks.

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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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Railway Regulation (Gauge) Act 1846

The Railway Regulation (Gauge) Act was enacted by the United Kingdom Parliament on 18 August 1846.

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Railways in Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan has of railways (37th largest in the world).

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Railways of Greece

The railways of Greece have a history which begin in 1869, with the completion of the then Athens & Piraeus Railway, with parts of it also becoming the second-oldest underground metro system in the world.

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Rapid transit

Rapid transit or mass rapid transit, also known as heavy rail, metro, MRT, subway, tube, U-Bahn or underground, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas.

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Rapid transit track gauge

The vast majority of rapid transit systems use 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge, but there are also systems that use 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in), 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in), 1,524 mm (5 ft), and 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) gauges, among others.

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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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Redruth and Chasewater Railway

The Redruth and Chasewater Railway, (otherwise called the Redruth and Chacewater Railway using modern spelling), was an early mineral railway line in Cornwall, England, UK.

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Renfe Feve

Renfe Feve is a division of state-owned Spanish railway company Renfe Operadora.

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Resistencia, Chaco

Resistencia is the capital and largest city of the province of Chaco in north-eastern Argentina.

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Rhaetian Railway

The Rhaetian Railway (Rhätische Bahn, Ferrovia Retica, Viafier Retica), abbreviated RhB, is a Swiss transport company that owns the largest network of all private railway operators in Switzerland.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Rollbock

Rollbocks, sometimes called transporter trailers, are pre-coupled narrow gauge transporter trucks or bogies that allow a coupled train of standard gauge wagons to be automatically loaded or rolled onto so that the train can then continue through a change of gauge.

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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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Saint Petersburg–Moscow Railway

The Saint Petersburg to Moscow Railway runs for through four oblasts: Leningrad, Novgorod, Tver and Moscow.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Serbian Railways

Serbian Railways (Железнице Србије / Železnice Srbije; abbr. ŽS / ЖС) is a Serbian engineering and technical consulting company based in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca

Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca or SFM is a company which operates the metre gauge railway network on the Spanish island of Majorca.

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Slovenian Railways

Slovenian Railways (Slovenske železnice, SŽ) is the state railway company of Slovenia, created in 1991 from the Ljubljana division of the former Yugoslav Railways after the breakup of Yugoslavia.

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Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois

The Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (Luxembourg National Railway Company, abbreviated CFL) is the national railway company of Luxembourg.

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South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company

The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company was chartered under act of the South Carolina General Assembly of December 19, 1827.

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South Caucasus Railway

South Caucasus Railway (Հարավկովկասյան երկաթուղի, Южно-Кавказская железная дорога) is a rail operator in Armenia, owned by Russian Railways.

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Spanish customary units

There are a number of Spanish units of measurement of length or area that are now virtually obsolete (due to metrication).

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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State Railways Institution

The State Railways Institution ("Instituto de Ferrocarriles del Estado", or IFE.) is a state-run organization of Venezuela that manages the railway systems of the country.

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Stockton and Darlington Railway

The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863.

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Structure gauge

The structure gauge, also called the minimum clearance outline, is the minimum height and width of tunnels and bridges as well as the minimum height and width of the doors that allow a rail siding access into a warehouse.

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Sundance Resources

Sundance Resources Limited is an Australian mining company, based in Perth, Western Australia, whose main assets are iron ore leases in Cameroon near Mbalam, and across the border in the Republic of Congo.

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SUW 2000

SUW 2000 is a type of variable gauge system that allows a train to travel across a railway break-of-gauge.

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Swedish units of measurement

In Sweden, a common system for weights and measures was introduced by law in 1665.

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Talgo

Talgo is a Spanish manufacturer of intercity, standard, and high speed passenger trains.

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The New Times (Rwanda)

The New Times is a national English language newspaper in Rwanda.

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The Northern Standard

The Northern Standard, also known by the uniform title Northern standard (Darwin, N.T.), was a newspaper published in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from 1920 or 1921 to 1955.

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Third rail

A third rail is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway track.

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Tightlock coupling

The AAR/APTA TypeH TightLock coupler is a Janney automatic coupler typically used on North American mainline passenger cars.

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Track (rail transport)

The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.

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Track ballast

Track ballast forms the trackbed upon which railroad ties (sleepers) are laid.

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Track gauge conversion

Gauge conversion is the change of one railway track gauge to another.

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Trans-Asian Railway

The Trans-Asian Railway (TAR) is a project to create an integrated freight railway network across Europe and Asia.

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Trans-Mongolian Railway

The Trans-Mongolian Railway follows an ancient tea-caravan route from China to Russia and connects Ulan-Ude, on the Trans-Baikal (Trans-Siberian) railway in Russia, with the Chinese city of Jining, by way of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia.

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Transport in Burundi

There are a number of systems of transport in Burundi, including road and water-based infrastructure, the latter of which makes use of Lake Tanganyika.

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Transport in Cameroon

This article provides a breakdown of the transportation options available in Cameroon.

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Transport in Djibouti

Transport in Djibouti includes highways, airports, railways and seaports.

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Transport in Ethiopia

Transport in Ethiopia is overseen by the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

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Transport in Kenya

Transport in Kenya refers to the transportation structure in Kenya.

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Transport in Rwanda

The transport system in Rwanda centres primarily around the road network.

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Transport in South Sudan

total: narrow gauge: gauge.

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Transport in Tanzania

Transport in Tanzania includes road, rail, air and water networks.

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Transport in Uganda

Transport in Uganda refers to the transportation structure in Uganda.

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Transporter wagon

A transporter wagon, in railway terminology, is a wagon (UIC) or railroad car (US) designed to carry other railway equipment.

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Tunnel

A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through the surrounding soil/earth/rock and enclosed except for entrance and exit, commonly at each end.

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Ulster Railway

The Ulster Railway was a railway company operating in Ulster, Ireland.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP or ESCAP), located in the United Nations Building in Rajadamnern Nok Avenue in Bangkok, Thailand, is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, under the administrative direction of the United Nations headquarters.

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United States customary units

United States customary units are a system of measurements commonly used in the United States.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Wheelset (rail transport)

A wheelset is the wheel - axle assembly of a railroad car.

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William Jackson Palmer

William Jackson Palmer (September 18, 1836 – March 13, 1909) was an American civil engineer, soldier, industrialist, and philanthropist.

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Yunnan–Burma railway

The Yunnan–Burma railway (alternatively: Burma–Yunnan railway) was a failed British project to connect far southwest China's Yunnan province with the recently established rail network in British-ruled Burma.

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3 ft 6 in gauge railways

Railways with a track gauge of were first constructed as horse-drawn wagonways.

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4 ft 6 in gauge railway

The track gauge, also called the Scotch gauge, was adopted by early 19th century railways mainly in the Lanarkshire area of Scotland.

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5 ft 3 in gauge railways

Railways with track gauge of are broad gauge railways, currently in use in Australia, Brazil, Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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5 ft 6 in gauge railway

is the size of a broad track gauge commonly used in India, Pakistan, western Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Chile, and on the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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5 ft and 1520 mm gauge railways

Railways with a railway track gauge of were first constructed in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge

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