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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 ...
The Tomlinson coupler is the most widely used fully automatic heavy rail coupling in North America having been adopted by the Washington Metro, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, PATCO Speedline, SEPTA Broad Street Subway, Los Angeles Metro Rail, Baltimore Metro, Miami Metro, MARTA Rail and the New York City Subway for its R44/R46 ...
RailRunner N.A., Inc. is a company that designs and produces rail vehicles (bogies) as well as a specialized chassis and trailers that allow trailers and cargo containers to be shipped on rail as well as road, thus achieving intermodal transport.
RoadRailers were a trailer or semi-trailer that could be hauled on roads by a tractor unit and then by way of a fifth wheel coupling, operate in a unit train on railway lines. The RoadRailer system allowed trailers to be pulled by locomotives without the use of flatcars, instead attaching trailers directly to bogies.
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 ...
Rail junctions (10 C, 2 P) L. ... Railway platforms (17 P) S. Railway sidings (1 C, 14 P) T. Track geometry (10 P) Tram loops (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Railway ...
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 larger stations having multiple platforms. Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan hosts 44 platforms, more than any other rail station in the world. [1]
Installing a Harrington Hump is much cheaper than raising the entire length of the platform – to the order of 1/10th of the typical £250,000 cost. [2] The Hump was devised by Network Rail and Cumbria County Council, in conjunction with Pipex Structural Composites, [2] and was installed first at Harrington railway station in December 2008. [3]