- 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...
- the
service train. As
double heading has
become increasingly uncommon railway companies may
advertise specially double-
headed services as an attraction...
- turn and vice versa,
since the
switches were made of
symmetrical double-
headed rail profiles.
Turntables with
connecting rails were used for right-angle...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
substantial bridges and
railway stations built of bluestone, and
double-
headed rail.
Originating from
Spencer Street Station, the line
reached Sunbury...
- Hitachi, Ltd.
Railway Systems Business Unit,
trading as
Hitachi Rail, is the
rolling stock and
railway signalling manufacturing division of
Hitachi outside...
