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Pilatus Railway has a lot of traversers, as its rack railway system does not allow switches. Sydney Tramway Museum, Sydney, Australia has a traverser between depot roads 4 to 8 and to allow access to their workshop facilities (roads 9 and 10). Transfer tables are extensively used in the Mechelen workshops of the Belgian Railways NMBS/SNCB. [6]
Transfer table (UK: 'traverser') – provides access to two or more parallel tracks in a space saving manner like a turntable, but without the ability to turn. A Sector plate or sector table is a traverser that rotates around a pivot that is not at the centre and therefore cannot rotate through 360˚.
Transfer sheds, sometimes called transshipment sheds, were provided to transfer goods between two different railways of different gauges, such as the broad gauge and standard gauge on the Great Western Railway in the United Kingdom. Those at Exeter and Didcot are still intact.
A railway roundhouse is a building with a circular or semicircular shape used by railways for servicing and storing locomotives. [1] Traditionally, though not always the case today, these buildings contained or were adjacent to a turntable .
Track gauge conversion is the changing of one railway track gauge (the distance between the running rails) to another. In general, requirements depend on whether the conversion is from a wider gauge to a narrower gauge or vice versa, on how the rail vehicles can be modified to accommodate a track gauge conversion, and on whether the gauge conversion is manual or automated.
The UK was ranked eighth among national European rail systems in the 2017 European Railway Performance Index for intensity of use, quality of service and safety performance. [9] To cope with increasing passenger numbers, there is a large programme of upgrades to the network, including Thameslink , Crossrail , electrification of lines , in-cab ...
Railways in Great Britain are run under a structure established by the Railways Act 1993 (as amended), which provided for the break-up of the former vertically integrated state railway, the British Railways Board, and the transfer of its operations into the private sector.
This method was used at Dry Creek railway station, Adelaide. [3] Charles Tisdale patented a system of ramps and moving supports for lowering the trucks out from under a railroad car in 1873. [4] George Atkinson patented a hoist and transfer table arrangement in 1882; this dropped the bogies from under a car and shift them to the side. [5]