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  2. Sodor (fictional island) - Wikipedia

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    Its highest mountain is Culdee Fell, which was modelled on Snowdon: the ridge of Devil's Back copies the Clogwyn ridge on Snowdon. The summit is reached by the Culdee Fell Railway, which is based on the Snowdon Mountain Railway in Wales. The capital and administrative centre of Sodor is the city of Suddery; Tidmouth is the largest town on the ...

  3. List of The Railway Series characters - Wikipedia

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    Culdee: 4 The principal engine on the Culdee Fell Railway. When introduced in Mountain Engines, he had been overhauled in Switzerland between 1962 and 1963 and was on the last stage of his journey home. Culdee has great respect for dangers found on the line and relies on his coach, Catherine, to help him travel safety. Snowdon: Shane Dooiney: 5

  4. Fell mountain railway system - Wikipedia

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    Brazil's first mountain railway, of 1,100 mm (3 ft 7 + 5 ⁄ 16 in) gauge, re-used some of the equipment from the Mont Cenis Pass Railway, and continued in operation until the 1960s. The Fell centre rail was used only for braking after 1884.

  5. Culdees - Wikipedia

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    In The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry there is a rack railway called the Culdee Fell Railway. One of the steam locomotives is named Culdee . In the Island of Sodor's fictional Gaelic language of Sudric, 'Culdee' is said to translate as 'Companion of God', the mountain being named for the island's Patron Saint, Machan.

  6. Rack railway - Wikipedia

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    The Pilatus Railway is the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%. Functioning of the rack and pinion on the Strub system. A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails.

  7. List of books in The Railway Series - Wikipedia

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    This is the only book to feature the Culdee Fell Railway (known within the stories as the Mountain Railway). Christopher Awdry has written that the reason there have been no new books set on the Mountain Railway is that the limited traffic and stringent safety precautions make it difficult to find suitable material for realistic stories set there.

  8. Mountain railway - Wikipedia

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    Brienz Rothorn Bahn ascending Brienzer Rothorn in the Swiss Alps Vall de Núria Rack Railway, Catalonia. A mountain railway is a railway that operates in a mountainous region.It may operate through the mountains by following mountain valleys and tunneling beneath mountain passes, or it may climb a mountain to provide transport to and from the summit.

  9. List of rail trails in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Railroad Grade Road, a five-mile long paved road/trail; a former section of the old East Tennessee and Western North Carolina line west of Roan Mountain Shelby Farms Greenline , a 6.6 mile trail using the previous CSX Rail right-of-way in Shelby County ; an additional 7 miles are planned.

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