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- Railway. Double-headed rails continued in widespread use in Britain until the First World War. Bullhead rail was developed from double-headed rail.[citation...
- 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...
- decided they needed more powerful locomotives to run on heavier, double-headed rail in chaired track on its more intensively worked quarry galleries....
- 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...
- 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...
- station has two island platforms serving three tracks. During the light rail's double-tracking project, when the northern section of the system was closed...
- 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...