10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RACK RAILWAY»
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rack railway in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
rack railway and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Miles Brientz and Rothhorn Rack Railway (1892) 4.71 Bnrgenstock Rack
Railway (1890) 0. 62 Gotthard Railway (1894) 124 Jurn-Simplon Railway (1890)
102 Mount Generoso Rack Railway (1893) 5. 60 Mount Hiatus Rack Railway (
1890) ...
United States. Forest Service, 1894
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Report on the use of metal railroad ties and on preservative ...
Miles Brientz and Rothhorn Rack Railway (1892) 4. 71 Burgenstock Rack
Railway (1890) 0. 62 Gotthard Railway (1894) 124 Jura-Simplon Railway (1890)
102 Mount Generoso Rack Railway (1893) 5.60 Mount Pilatus Rack Railway (
1890) 2.
Edward Ernest Russell Tratman, 1894
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Rack Railways:
Rack Railway, John Blenkinsop, Da Lat-Thap ...
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Source Wikipedia, LLC Books, 2011
RACK RAILWAY. See also MOUNTAIN RAILWAY; RAILWAY. Progress In the
Perfection of the Rack Railway. E. L. Corthell. Tracing the origin of rack-bar
railroads, and describing in detail the £ reject of the Jungfrau road. III. 4700 w.
Eng lag— ...
John Butler Johnson, Henry Harrison Suplee, Johannes H. Cuntz, 1901
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Railways—-inclines—motive power
for steep inclines—contim1ed. Rack-rail: Abt's rack-system of railways. E. Woods,
lxxxvii. 13. —'— Abt rack railway. R. Andra, cv. 367. Z Abt system of ascending ...
Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), 1895
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Bulletin of the International
Railway Congress Association
Continuous current, 600 volts. (Generated as three-phase current at 5,500 volts.)
1 '97 kilometre { 1 '22 mile) of adhesion railway (100 per mil) and 4-81 kilometres
(2-99 miles) of rack railway (Abt rack, 230 per mil). Overhead conductor, trolley.
International Railway Congress Association, 1907
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Bulletin of the International
Railway Congress Association ...
Each car can seat 20 persons and weighs 9 tons when empty, and the current is
conducted to the motors by means of a bow trolley; The Mont Saléve electric rack
- railway, the first mountain rack railway on which electric traction has been ...
International Railway Congress Association, 1899
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Modern
Railway Practice: A Treatise on the Modern Methods of ...
Locomotive for combined adhesion and rack railway on the Abt system. A
locomotive of the latter type according to the Abt system is shown in fig. 5. A
peculiarity of the combined adhesion and rack railways is the arrangement of the
beginning ...
W. Robinson, Karl Richard Oscar Bertling, Oscar Eckenstein, 1914
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Walking in the Bavarian Alps: 85 Mountain Walks and Treks
Route 42 W e n d e l s t e i n H a u s Wendelstein 1838m H o c h s a l w a n d 1 6
2 5 m 1520 B reitenber g H u t 1 0 0 0 m 1200 T a l s t a t i o n o f R a c k Railwa y
880 560 0 2 4 6 8 km10 wendelstein-Zahnradbahn (rack railway) The historic ...
Grant Bourne, Sabine Körner-Bourne, 2012
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RACK RAILWAY»
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rack railway is used in the context of the following news items.
Budapest drops metro expansion in favour of trams
... constructed from Astoria to Újpalota, while tram Line 1 will be extended north to Aranyvölgy and Line 60, the city's rack railway, will be extended at both ends. «International Railway Journal, Jun 15»
Restored 'Moutzouris' Locomotive Returns to Kalavryta Railway
First built under the Greek government of Harilaos Trikoupis in 1896, the 750 mm gauge rack railway runs 22 km from Diakofto through the Vouraikos Gorge and ... «Greek Reporter, May 15»
Views from a train along Europe's highest railway
The filmer later wrote online: "This 9 km long electrified rack railway leads from Kleine Scheidegg (2061 m) to Jungraujoch (3454 m) which is the highest railway ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
Dispute delays cogwheel extension
02 03 Budapest Cogwheel Railway (Fogaskerekű), officially called tram line number 60, is a rack railway that began operating 130 years ago. The Urban and ... «Budapest Times, Jun 14»
Tango light rail vehicles ordered for St Gallen
The largest element of the DML project is the new 697 m Ruckhalde tunnel which will eliminate a section of rack railway on the St Gallen - Gais - Appenzell line. «Railway Gazette International, Jan 14»
Spain by train: five of the best routes
A seven-day “Barcelona & Highlights of Catalonia” tour with Holidays by Rail ... Mar, it incorporates excursions to Sitges, Girona and the Montserrat rack railway. «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 13»
Great Continental Railway Journeys: Michael Portillo, time traveller
Travelling the railways of Europe with a century-old guidebook can be ... From the resort of St Wolfgang I took the steam-powered rack railway up to the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 12»
Journeys by rail: five of the best new adventures
Europe's newest railway journey takes you up one of the Auvergne's great volcanic plugs, the Puy de Dôme. Opened this summer, the rack railway follows the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 12»
Where is Sodor, home of Thomas the Tank Engine?
In Sodor they are celebrating, according to the latest book in the Railway Series of ... Sodor's Culdee Fell Railway is a rack railway - so steep that the trains have ... «BBC News, Jul 11»
