Examples of 'rack railway' in a sentence

Meaning of "rack railway"

A rack railway is a type of railway that uses a toothed rack rail to assist with climbing steep slopes or gradients. The rack rail provides extra traction and allows trains to ascend or descend inclines that would be too difficult for a conventional railway
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  • A railway that uses a rack and pinion mechanism

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Access is via a rack railway in picturesque colors.
Thus it was also the first rack railway.
There is a rack railway that goes up it.
The term is also applied to the rack railway.
Rack railway switches are as varied as rack railway technologies.
This is an electric rack railway.
A rack railway is going up there.
It is in fact an electric rack railway.
Rack railway tickets.
Odontotos rack railway.
Rack railway ticket.
They were much cheaper to build than the earlier rack railway.
Electrification of the rack railway line was delayed by two years due to technical problems.
The rack and pinion gear type is employed in a rack railway.
The rack railway train includes a wagon at the front or back for transporting bicycles.

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It is the only urban rack railway in Germany.
The difficulties led Riggenbach to the concept of the rack railway.
It is a gauge rack railway using the Riggenbach rack system.
It uses a Marsh rack system and was the first successful rack railway in the US.
The Dolderbahn is a long rack railway in the Swiss city of Zürich.
The statue can be reached by a narrow road or by the Corcodova Rack Railway.
Rack railway of Puy de Dome.
The Wengernalp rack railway.
Rack railway of Puy de Dôme.
The Dolderbahn rack railway.
Württemberg rack railway locomotives were built for the Honau-Lichtenstein and Freudenstadt-Klosterreichenbach routes.
Superga can be reached by means of the Superga Rack Railway from Sassi suburb.
As a result, a rack railway based on the Abt system was proposed.
It has replaced a standard-gauge rack railway line.
It is the only rack railway in India, and uses the Abt system.
The Mancomunitat and the Network of Secondary Railroads ; narrow-gauge railways and rack railway.
Pilatus Railway has a lot of traversers, as its rack railway system does not allow switches.
The Wendelstein Rack Railway is thus the oldest, working rack railway in Bavaria.
Transport ( not included in flight price ) Rack Railway.
John Stevens demonstrates a steam rack railway at his home in Hoboken, New Jersey.
At Chamonix, with the Montenvers Railway, a rack railway.
There is also a rack railway ( Zugspitze Railway ) up the Zugspitze.
The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world 's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
The Wengernalp railway (, WAB ) is a long rack railway line in Switzerland.
The rack railway connecting it to the main railroad was built in 1896.
The R5 ( Barcelona - Manresa ) line also links with the Montserrat cable car and rack railway stations.
The Eibsee cable car was built in 1963 to extend and alleviate the rack railway.
Subject: Suspension of services on the Diakofto-Kalavrita rack railway (Achaia - Greece).

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