In the UK there are a few preserved railways operating double track on short sections.
The central section is called the choke.
two section of railway track are joined together by welding.instead they are laid with gaps between them.fish plates,fastened by nuts and bolts which are able to slide along the oval holes,are used to join two section of railway track......
Section officer (design, commerical, audit, workshop) are special class railway officer. They have a starting salary of about approx 50,000 Rs/month.
In Canada, not by legal definition. The Canadian Criminal Code, Section 253 states "Everyone commits an offence who operates a motor vehicle or vessel or operates or assists in the operation of an aircraft or of railway equipment or has the care or control of a motor vehicle, vessel, aircraft or railway equipment, whether it is in motion or not, (a) while the person's ability to operate the vehicle, vessel, aircraft or railway equipment is impaired by alcohol or a drug, or (b) having consumed alcohol in such a quantity that the concentration in the person's blood exceeds eighty milligrams of alcohol in one hundred millilitres of blood.
When a section of the electrified railway is isolated, the earth wires are attached to the contact as they help it in grounding.
The station with the smallest name on Indian Railways is Ib in Orissa state on the Nagpur Howrah line on South Central Railways. It is located between Brijrajnagar and Jharsuguda railway stations.Also, there is station named Od, on the Anand-Godhra section of Western Railways.
railway cross sections are of i section to relieve the enormous stresses produced due to the weight of the train, as well as they also reduce the thermal expansions along the planes perpendicular to the cross section which is a major advantage
The first installation of the General Railway Signal Corp. centralized traffic control (shown as cTc) was in 1927 on a 40 mile section of the New York Central railroad in Ohio.
The first section of railway track in Britain ran between the towns of Stockton and Darlington in County Durham. This pioneering railway, known as the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opened on September 27, 1825, and was primarily designed for the transportation of coal. It marked a significant milestone in the development of rail transport.
A section of the camp has been preserved as a memorial and small museum.
what is cutoff marks
Use for seperation and insulating