- The
Grand Junction Railroad was an 8.55-mile (13.76 km) long
railroad in the Boston, M****achusetts, area,
connecting the
railroads heading west and north...
- of
linked tapering rails,
known as
points (switch
rails or
point blades),
lying between the
diverging outer rails (the
stock rails).
These points can...
-
through the gaps in the
rails, and the
latter because the ****embly
contains elements that can
break or
vibrate loose.
Level junctions are
considered a maintenance...
- A
double junction is a
railway junction where a double-track
railway splits into two
double track lines. Usually, one line is the main line and carries...
- the one on the
other side, run on the
junction rails. The
train was then
taken up to the
place where the
junction with the
Dundee and
Arbroath Railway...
- West
Junction Railway, the Evesham, Redditch, and Stratford-upon-Avon
Junction Railway, and the Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester, and
Midland Junction Railway...
- that only one pair of
rails can be used at any time.
Since this
requires only
slightly more
width than a
single track, all
rails can be
carried on the...
-
structures and rail terminology, a wye (like the 'Y' glyph) or
triangular junction (often
shortened to just triangle) is a
triangular joining arrangement...
- rail,
perpendicular to its length.
Early rails were made of wood, cast iron or
wrought iron. All
modern rails are hot
rolled steel with a
cross section...
- The
Birmingham and
Derby Junction Railway (B&DJR) was a
British railway company. From
Birmingham it
connected at
Derby with the
North Midland Railway and...