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Local door operation refers to a procedure and system in place on railway rolling stock on the United Kingdom railway network. It is where a single door on a train is operated by its train crew from a crew operated switch, often on a train door control panel operated by the train's guard. This differs from the Emergency Door Release or Egress ...
Selective door operation is implemented at certain railway stations in the United States. In the New York City Subway, the 6 + 1 ⁄ 2-car-long platforms at 145th Street (and formerly the 5-car-long loop platforms at South Ferry) are too short to accommodate full-length trains of ten 51.4-foot-long (15.7 m) cars, so only the first five cars of the train opened their doors at these stations.
Rail transport operations are the day-to-day operations of a railway. A railway has two major components: the infrastructure (the permanent way, tracks, stations, freight facilities, viaducts, tunnels, etc.) and the rolling stock (the passenger coaches, locomotives, freight cars, etc.) Ownership and operation of these two components varies by ...
The second rail supplied signal commands, which included speed signals and instructions to start and stop the train. This information was only provided when it was needed. The driver was renamed a train operator, and was responsible for opening and closing the doors at stations, and initiating a start from the stations, by pressing two buttons ...
Pages in category "Railway buildings and structures" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. ... Railway Institute Building; Retarder (railroad ...
The Steam Whistle Brewing brewery in Toronto, Ontario is located in the building known as the John Street Roundhouse, a former Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive repair facility. The Canadian Pacific 374 steam engine is on display at the former CPR Drake Street Roundhouse in Vancouver , [ 7 ] now the Roundhouse Community Centre [ 8 ] [ 9 ...
CTC consolidates train routing decisions that were previously carried out by local signal operators or the train crews themselves. The system consists of a centralized train dispatcher 's office that controls railroad interlockings and traffic flows in portions of the rail system designated as CTC territory.
Located close to Eskbank railway station, the signal box is an important part of the larger historic Lithgow railway corridor controlling access to and from Eskbank locomotive depot, local colliery branch lines as well as locomotives using the nearby 1888 on-line overhead coaling bunker. As such, the signal box has strong associations with the ...