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Platform gap fillers being trialled at Platform 3 of Lo Wu station in Hong Kong in 2009. Platform gap fillers were trialled on the platforms of Lo Wu station on the East Rail line in 2009 due to the difficulty of installing platform screen doors on the curved nature of the platforms. They were planned to be installed at other stations along the ...
A Central line platform at Bank tube station, London, showing the 1-foot (30 cm) gap between the train and the platform edge (delineated by a solid white line).. A platform gap (also known technically as the platform train interface or PTI in some countries) is the space between a train car (or other mass transit vehicle) and the edge of the station platform, often created by geometric ...
In the early 2000s a British manufacturer of rail crossing equipment, Rosehill Rail, worked with Network to develop the modern rubber anti-trespass panel. [17] Made of rubber recycled from used automobile tires , they were designed to be light and install quickly, the ease of cutting allowing for them to be adjusted to the area in which the ...
The impetus for the hump, it is claimed, was a complaint by the chairman of the Copeland Rail Users' Group that low platforms on the Cumbrian Coast Line caused users difficulty in boarding and alighting from trains, made at Allerdale Area Transport Advisory Group, a sub-committee of Cumbria County Council's Local Committee. A suggestion of a ...
A railway platform is an area in a train station alongside a railway track providing convenient access to trains. Almost all stations have some form of platform, with ...
Measurement of track spacing from the rail head to rail head. By definition, the track spacing is given from centre to centre of a rail track. For an actual construction the distance is measured from the inside of a rail head to the matching one of the other track. As far as both tracks have the same gauge this is the same distance.
A breather switch, expansion joint, or adjustment switch is an intentional gap in railway tracks to allow for thermal expansion in long sections of otherwise unbroken rail. . They are placed between very long sections of continuous welded rail or at the transition from continuous welded rail to jointed track, and commonly in the vicinity of bridges, viaducts and tunnels where the ...
Class 153 DMUs are unable to use this station because the body-side steps under the doors foul the platform coping stones here. [28] During Monday to Saturday daytimes, this is the regular service pattern, however due to the Preston to Manchester electrification works [ 29 ] during the 2015 summer timetable, there was an amended timetable ...