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2. Cable railing - Wikipedia

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   Cable can have too much deflection allowing body parts to slip through, or cables can merely "pull out" of the end fittings, causing the cable rail to fail. Poorly designed end posts will result in a railing where the cables cannot be properly tensioned without an unacceptable amount of cable deflection.

3. Cable railway - Wikipedia

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   A cable railway is a railway that uses a cable, rope or chain to haul trains. It is a specific type of cable transportation . The most common use for a cable railway is to move vehicles on a steeply graded line that is too steep for conventional locomotives to operate on – this form of cable railway is often called an incline or inclined ...

4. Cable transport - Wikipedia

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   The first cable railway outside the United Kingdom and the United States was the Roslyn Tramway, which opened in 1881, in Dunedin, New Zealand. America remained the country that made the greatest use of cable railways; by 1890 more than 500 miles of cable-hauled track had been laid, carrying over 1,000,000 passengers per year.

5. Global Stainless Steel Cable Railing Market is Expected to ...

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   Commercial segment by application category dominated the stainless steel cable railing market with revenue share of 50.4% in 2023 due to increasing construction activities in commercial spaces such as office buildings, hotels, and public venues. Stainless steel cable railings are favored in these settings for their combination of modern ...

6. List of steepest gradients on adhesion railways - Wikipedia

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   These include simple rail adhesion, rack railways and cable inclines (including rail mounted water tanks to carry barges). To help with braking on the descent, a non-load-bearing "brake rail" located between the running rails can be used, similar to the rail used in the Fell system, e.g. by the Snaefell Mountain Railway on the Isle of Man.

7. Cable car (railway) - Wikipedia

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   A San Francisco cable car on the Powell & Hyde line. A cable car (usually known as a cable tram outside North America) is a type of cable railway used for mass transit in which rail cars are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed.