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Railway engineering

Index Railway engineering

Railway engineering is a multi-faceted engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction and operation of all types of rail transport systems. [1]

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A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers

The book A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers, by John Marshall (b. 1922), summarises the lives of more than 600 engineers from Europe and North America.

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Acomb, North Yorkshire

Acomb, is a suburb within the City of York Unitary Authority, to the western side of York, England.

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Adelaida Gertsyk

Adelaida Gertsyk (Аделаида Казимировна Герцык, 16 February 1874 – 25 June 1925) was a Russian translator, poet and writer of the Silver Age.

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Alfred Lamert Dickens

Alfred Lamert Dickens (1822–1860) was a younger brother of the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and a railway engineer.

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Angus McDonnell

The Honourable Angus McDonnell CB CMG (7 June 1881 – 22 April 1966) was a British engineer, diplomat and Conservative Party politician.

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Archibald Jack

Brigadier-General Archibald Jack, (1874 – 29 January 1939) was a New Zealand-born railway engineer and British Army officer.

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Ballarat North Workshops

Ballarat North Workshops is a Railway systems engineering facility located in the provincial city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

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Benjamin Wegner Nørregaard

Benjamin Wegner Nørregaard (3 October 1861 – 24 April 1935) was a Norwegian military officer, railway engineer, adventurer, journalist, diplomat and internationally renowned war correspondent.

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Borys Oliynyk (Ukrzaliznytsia)

Borys Stepanovych Oliynyk (Борис Степанович Олійник; 23 June 1934 – 1 October 1999) was a Ukrainian political figure and merited rail transport worker.

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British Rail Engineering Limited

British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL), incorporated on 31 October 1969, was the railway systems engineering subsidiary of British Rail until the design and building of trains in the UK was privatised in 1989.

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Camille Polonceau

Camille Polonceau Jean-Barthélémy Camille Polonceau (29 October 1813 – 21 September 1859) was a French railway systems engineer.

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Carolyn Griffiths

Carolyn Griffiths is a railway engineer.

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Cecil J. Allen

Cecil J. Allen (1886– 5 February 1973) was a British railway engineer and technical journalist and writer.

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Charles Liddell

Charles Liddell (1813 – 10 August 1894), was an English railway engineer.

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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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Cooperative Research Centre

Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) are an Australian Federal Government program and are key bodies for Australian scientific research.

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Croxley Rail Link

The Croxley Rail Link was a proposed railway engineering project in the Watford and Three Rivers districts of Hertfordshire, England, that would have connected the London Overground and the London Underground's Metropolitan line at.

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CSA (database company)

CSA (formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) was a division of Cambridge Information Group and provider of online databases, based in Bethesda, Maryland before merging with ProQuest of Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2007.

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Degree of curvature

Degree of curve or degree of curvature is a measure of curvature of a circular arc used in civil engineering for its easy use in layout surveying.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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East London line extension

The East London line extension (ELLX) project was a British railway engineering project in London, managed by Transport for London.

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Edinburgh College

Edinburgh College is a further and higher education institution with campuses in Edinburgh and Midlothian, Scotland.

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Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg

Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg (12 May 1817 – 2 February 1886) was a German mechanical engineer and railway engineer.

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Edward Watkin

Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet (26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901) was a British Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur.

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Elfric Wells Chalmers Kearney

Elfric Wells Chalmers Kearney (3 February 1881 – 15 April 1966) was an Australian inventor, engineer and author.

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Eugenia Gertsyk

Eugenia Gertsyk (Евгения Казимировна Герцык, 30 September 1878 O.S./12 October 1878 (N. S.)–20 January 1944) was a noted Russian translator and literary figure from the Silver Age.

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Euler spiral

An Euler spiral is a curve whose curvature changes linearly with its curve length (the curvature of a circular curve is equal to the reciprocal of the radius).

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Exsecant

The exsecant (exsec, exs) and excosecant (excosec, excsc, exc) are trigonometric functions defined in terms of the secant and cosecant functions.

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Forcade

Forcade (de), also written Fourcade (de), Forcada (de), Forquade (de), Forquada (de), Forcade (de la), Fourcade (de la), Laforcade (de) and Lafourcade (de) belongs to the nobility of GuyenneChaix d'Est-Ange (1922), Tome 18, p. 310 and Gascony,Chaix d'Est-Ange (1922), Tome 18, p. 313 in France, and of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Frederick Esling

Frederick Karl Esling (20 July 1860 Creswick, Victoria, Australia-31 July 1955 Box Hill, Victoria, Australia) was an Australian railway engineer and chess master.

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Frederick Slessor

Frederick George Slessor (1831 - 1905) was a British railway engineer who worked in England, India, South Africa, and continental Europe.

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Frederick Walton (engineer)

Frederick Thomas Granville Walton CIE, M. Inst C.E., Telford Medal, was a notable British railway engineer in India.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Konstantin Quirin Freiherr von Forcade de Biaix

Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Konstantin Quirin Freiherr von Forcade de Biaix, aka Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Konstantin Quirin von Forcade de Biaix,Zedlitz-Neukirch, Band 4, Page 391 Blažek, Part 3, pp.

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Geoprofessions

Geoprofessions is a term coined by the Geoprofessional Business Association to connote various technical disciplines that involve engineering, earth and environmental services applied to below-ground (“subsurface”), ground-surface, and ground-surface-connected conditions, structures, or formations.

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George Frederick Armstrong

George Frederick Armstrong, (15 May 1842 – 16 November 1900), was a distinguished 19th century British academic specialising in railway, civil, and sanitary engineering who served as the Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh.

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George Johnston (engineer)

George Johnston (1855–1945) was a Scottish engineer.

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Georgy Shpak

Georgy Ivanovich Shpak (Георгий Иванович Шпак) was the governor of Ryazan Oblast, Russia from 2004 to 2008.

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Henry Bachtold

Henry Bachtold DSO MC (22 August 1891 – 9 May 1983) was an Australian soldier and railway engineer.

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Hezekiah Bissell

Hezekiah Bissell was a leading and well known nineteenth century American railroad engineer, civil engineer, and railroad maintenance of way manager for a number of railroads in the Northeastern United States, including the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts, and the Boston & Maine.

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Iran University of Science and Technology

The Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) (دانشگاه علم و صنعت ایران) is a research institution and university of engineering and science in Iran.

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Italferr

Italferr is a consulting and project company belonging to FS (Ferrovie dello Stato), the Italian railway state company.

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Jacobs bogie

Jacobs bogies (named after Wilhelm Jakobs,, 1858–1942, a German mechanical railway engineer) are a type of rail vehicle bogie commonly found on articulated railcars and tramway vehicles.

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James Falshaw

Sir James Falshaw, 1st Baronet JP, DL, FRSE (21 March 1810 – 14 June 1889), was a British railway engineer and politician.

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James Staats Forbes

James Staats Forbes (7 March 1823 – 5 April 1904) was a Scottish railway engineer, railway administrator and art collector.

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Jan Brzechwa

Jan Brzechwa, (15 August 1898 – 2 July 1966) was a Polish poet and author, known mostly for his contribution to children's literature.

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John Harley (footballer)

John Harley (also known as Juan Harley) (5 May 1886 – 15 May 1960) was a Uruguay international footballer of Scottish background.

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John Lombard

John Edward Lombard (December 17, 1872 – December 4, 1948) was an American college football coach and player, professor, education official, and engineer.

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John Whitton

John Whitton (1820, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, England – 20 February 1898), an Anglo–Australian railway engineer, was the Engineer-in-Charge for the New South Wales Government Railways, serving between 1856 and 1890, considered the Father of New South Wales Railways.

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Joseph Hobson

Joseph Hobson (1834–1917) was a Canadian land surveyor, civil engineer, and railway design engineer.

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Julius Wernher

Sir Julius Charles Wernher, 1st Baronet (9 April 1850 – 21 May 1912) was a German-born Randlord and art collector who became part of the English establishment.

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Karl Gustav Brescius

Karl Gustav (Guido) Brescius (25 March 1824 – 4 December 1864) was a German railway engineer.

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Keswick railway station

Keswick railway station was situated on the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway between Penrith and Cockermouth in Cumbria, England.

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Laplace–Carson transform

In mathematics, the Laplace–Carson transform, named after Pierre Simon Laplace and John Renshaw Carson, is an integral transform with significant applications in the field of physics and engineering, particularly in the field of railway engineering.

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Lawrie Quinn

Lawrence William Quinn (born 25 December 1956) is a British Labour Party politician, railway engineer and from 1997 to 2005 he was the Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby.

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Library of Congress Classification

The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress.

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Library of Congress Classification:Class T -- Technology

Class T: Technology is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system.

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List of electronics brands

This list of electronics brands is specialized as the list of brands of companies that provide electronics equipment.

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List of engineering branches

Engineering is the discipline and profession that applies scientific theories, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to design, create, and analyze technological solutions cognizant of safety, human factors, physical laws, regulations, practicality, and cost.

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List of female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering

→ The page lists female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), elected by the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK.

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List of people from Hamilton, Ontario

The following people were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely connected to the city of Hamilton, Ontario.

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List of University of New South Wales alumni

This is a list of University of New South Wales alumni.

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Liu Zhijun

Liu Zhijun (born 29 January 1953) is a former Chinese politician who served as Minister of Railway.

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MATIS Group

The MATIS Group is a privately owned international company specialized in technological and management consulting.

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Mbanza-Ngungu

Mbanza-Ngungu, formerly known as Thysville or Thysstad, named after Albert Thys, is a city and territory in Kongo Central Province in the western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying on a short branch off the Matadi-Kinshasa Railway.

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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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Nicholas Wood

Nicholas Wood FRS (24 April 1795 – 19 December 1865) was an English colliery and steam locomotive engineer.

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Olga Boznańska

Olga Boznańska (April 15, 1865 – October 26, 1940) was a Polish painter of the turn of the 20th century.

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Outline of engineering

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to engineering: Engineering is the discipline and profession that applies scientific theories, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to design, create, and analyze technological solutions cognizant of safety, human factors, physical laws, regulations, practicality, and cost.

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Outline of rail transport

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to rail transport: Rail transport – means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks consisting of steel rails installed on sleepers/ties and ballast.

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Pergamino

Pergamino is an Argentine city in the Province of Buenos Aires.

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Persian Corridor

The Persian Corridor was a supply route through Iran into Soviet Azerbaijan by which British aid and American Lend-Lease supplies were transferred to the Soviet Union during World War II.

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Pravda

Pravda (a, "Truth") is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, formerly the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million.

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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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Railway troops

Railway troops are soldiers who are also railway engineers.

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Richard Henry Brunton

Richard Henry Brunton FRGS MICE (26 December 1841 – 24 April 1901) was the so-called "Father of Japanese lighthouses".

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Robert Evans Snodgrass

Robert Evans Snodgrass (R.E. Snodgrass) (July 5, 1875 – September 4, 1962) was an American entomologist and artist who made important contributions to the fields of arthropod morphology, anatomy, evolution, and metamorphosis.

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Roger Morris (engineer)

Roger Brian Morris (19 March 1933 – 15 June 2001) was a pioneer in railway engineering, having helped develop the rail system for the Channel Tunnel, the hovertrain project as well as a number of the railway systems in Eastern Europe and South America.

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Ron Fitch

Ronald John Fitch (8 June 1910 – 20 July 2015) was an Australian railway executive and railway engineer.

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Roy Harvey (musician)

Roy Cecil Harvey (March 24, 1892 – July 11, 1958) was an American old time guitar player, singer and songwriter.

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Russian Machines

Russian Machines (Русские машины, /Russkie mashiny/) is a Russian conglomerate that consists of industrial and engineering divisions.

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Scientia Iranica

Scientia Iranica is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran).

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Shildon

Shildon is a town in County Durham, in England.

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SimplexGrinnell

SimplexGrinnell, a subsidiary of Tyco International, is an American company specializing in active fire protection systems, communication systems and testing, inspection and maintenance services.

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Soldiers Hill, Victoria

Soldiers Hill is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia located directly north of the Central Business District.

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Southwest Jiaotong University

Southwest Jiaotong University is located in national central city Chengdu, Sichuan Province, affiliated to the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.

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The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz

The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (fr.: Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz) is a fantasy novel by Jules Verne, published by Louis-Jules Hetzel in 1910.

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Thomas Bouch

Sir Thomas Bouch (25 February 1822 – 30 October 1880) was a British railway engineer.

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Tom Tong

Tom Tong is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Ganqishi (甘其食) and its American counterpart Tom’s BaoBao.

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Track transition curve

A track transition curve, or spiral easement, is a mathematically-calculated curve on a section of highway, or railroad track, in which a straight section changes into a curve.

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Train meet

A train meet is the situation in railroading or rail transit operations in which or the location where a train traveling in one direction "meets" another traveling in the opposite direction, either while traveling on parallel double or multiple tracks, or while stopping and waiting on a railroad siding for the other train to pass on a single track mainline.

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Vernon Robertson

Vernon Alec Murray Robertson, CBE, MC (29 December 1890 – 12 February 1971) was a British civil engineer in the railway sector.

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Watkin's Tower

Watkin's Tower was a partially completed iron lattice tower in Wembley Park, London, England (then in Middlesex).

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William Beckett (engineer)

Brigadier-General William Thomas Clifford Beckett CBE DSO VD (1862 – 4 March 1956) was a British railway engineer in India and a British Army officer.

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William Lloyd (engineer)

William Lloyd (12 October 1822 – 15 July 1905) was a British railway engineer who was instrumental in the construction of several railways in the Americas.

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References

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

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