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  2. List of steepest gradients on adhesion railways - Wikipedia

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    Foxfield Railway, Staffordshire, England: This incline is on a preserved colliery railway which briefly carried passengers over this steep section but does not now normally do so. Kangra Valley Railway, Himachal Pradesh, India: 1 in 20 (5.0%) Rapperswil - Samstagern, Südostbahn, Switzerland: Murg Valley Railway, Germany Kurobe Gorge Railway, Japan

  3. Railroad cutoff - Wikipedia

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    The building of a high-speed line to replace a lower-speed line is another possibility; one example of this is the New Lower Inn Valley railway in Austria. A "railroad bypass" is generally synonymous with a railroad cutoff, although there are examples, such as with the Berlin Outer Ring Railway in Germany, where the bypass route was built more ...

  4. Innsbruck bypass - Wikipedia

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    The Innsbruck bypass (German: Umfahrung Innsbruck or sometimes Güterzugumfahrung Innsbruck, that is the Innsbruck freight railway bypass) is a 14.853-kilometre (9.229 mi)-long double-track electrified main line of the Austrian railways. It connects the Lower Inn Valley railway with the Brenner railway, bypassing Innsbruck. It was opened on 29 ...

  5. List of rail trails - Wikipedia

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    Coulée verte ("green belt") (1 km), on the former transversal railway line (closed in 1979) between the station of Colombes and the station of "Les Vallées" la Garenne-Colombes; The voie verte ("green way") is a former railway line transformed in bicycle trail in the Vosges; it links Remiremont to Bussang and Remiremont to Cornimont

  6. High-speed rail in Austria - Wikipedia

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    [5] The first part of the New Lower Inn Valley Railway was opened in December 2012 as part of an upgrade of the line connecting the future Brenner Base Tunnel and southern Germany, which is being upgraded from two tracks to four and to a maximum design speed of 250 km/h (155 mph). The section is also part of the Berlin-Palermo railway axis.

  7. Valley station - Wikipedia

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    The valley station is the lower terminal of an aerial lift, cable car, gondola lift, chairlift, rack railway or ski lift. The valley station is the counterpart of a top station. Cable cars may be boarded at both stations. The valley station is always at a lower elevation than the top station. Valley stations on a cable car may be ordinary ...

  8. List of Bureau of Land Management Back Country Byways

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    Lower Crooked River Back Country Byway: Oregon: 43 69 US 20 and OR 27 near Millican: US 26 and OR 27 in Prineville: Route traverses through hilly sections of Oregon's high sagebrush desert and the basalt bluffs of the wild and scenic Lower Crooked River canyon. [44] I Lower Deschutes River Back Country Byway: Oregon: 32 51 Deschutes River Road ...

  9. Spen Valley Line - Wikipedia

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    The spur line had a twelve-arch viaduct across the River Calder just east of Ravensthorpe Lower station. [5] [note 3] [9] The west facing curve at the northern end of the line was built by the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway in 1893 after an agreement in 1882 with the Great Northern Railway about the sharing of running powers. The L&Y used the ...