- Railway.
Double-
headed rails continued in
widespread use in
Britain until the
First World War.
Bullhead rail was
developed from
double-
headed rail.[citation...
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prevent head-on
collisions on
single lines. This
improved with the
development of the
telegraph and the
train order system. In any
given country,
rail traffic...
-
decided they
needed more
powerful locomotives to run on heavier,
double-
headed rail in
chaired track on its more
intensively worked quarry galleries....
- chains. The
railway is to be, "a
single line throughout, laid with the
double-
headed rail, 75lbs to the yard, on
cross sleepers, with chairs, and fish jointed...
- the
service train. As
double heading has
become increasingly uncommon railway companies may
advertise specially double-
headed services as an attraction...
- first, the
rail section was
almost symmetrical top-to-bottom, and was
described as a
double-
headed rail. The
intention was to
invert the
rail after the...
- turn and vice versa,
since the
switches were made of
symmetrical double-
headed rail profiles.
Turntables with
connecting rails were used for right-angle...
-
Adriatic Network had
adopted Vignoles rail and the
Hardy brake,
while the
Mediterranean Network used
double-
headed rail and the
Westinghouse brake. Even the...
- A
bilevel car (American English) or
double-decker
coach (British
English and
Canadian English) is a type of
rail car that has two
levels of p****enger accommodation...
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Partners had
taken control of the business. The
works began rolling double-
headed rail in 90 feet (27 m)
lengths in 1929, and 120 feet (37 m)
lengths in...
