Rail profile, the Glossary
The rail profile is the cross sectional shape of a railway rail, perpendicular to its length.[1]
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124 relations: Albany and Schenectady Railroad, Algoma Steel, Alphonse Loubat, American Railway Association, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, ArcelorMittal, ASTM International, Australian Iron & Steel, Axle load, Baikal–Amur Mainline, Barrow Hematite Steel Company, Baulk road, Benjamin Outram, Bethlehem Steel, Bhilai Steel Plant, Branch line, British Standards, British Steel (2016–present), Brittleness, Butterley Company, Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, Cast iron, Călărași steel works, Charles Blacker Vignoles, Charles Cadwell, Classification yard, Colorado Fuel and Iron, Comparison of train and tram tracks, Cone, Continental Europe, Creosote, Cycling, Derailment, Derby railway station, Dowlais Ironworks, Evraz, Exothermic welding, Gijón, Gondola (rail), Great Western Railway, Groove (engineering), Gruppo Lucchini, Guide bar, Guided bus, Hans Goldschmidt, Heritage railway, History of rail transport, History of the railway track, ... Expand index (74 more) »
- Permanent way
Albany and Schenectady Railroad
The Mohawk & Hudson Railroad was the first railroad built in the state of New York and one of the first railroads in the United States.
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Algoma Steel
Algoma Steel Inc. (formerly Algoma Steel; Essar Steel Algoma) is an integrated primary steel producer located on the St. Marys River in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.
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Alphonse Loubat
Alphonse Loubat (15 June 1799 – 10 September 1866) was a French inventor who developed improvements in tram and rail equipment, and helped develop tram lines in New York City and Paris.
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American Railway Association
The American Railway Association (ARA) was an industry trade group representing railroads in the United States.
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American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association
The American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) is a North American railway industry group.
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American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide.
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ArcelorMittal
ArcelorMittal S.A. is a Luxembourg-based multinational steel manufacturing corporation headquartered in Luxembourg City.
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ASTM International
ASTM International, formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, is a standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical international standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems and services.
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Australian Iron & Steel
Australian Iron & Steel was an Australian iron and steel manufacturer.
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Axle load
The axle load of a wheeled vehicle is the total weight bearing on the roadway for all wheels connected to a given axle.
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Baikal–Amur Mainline
The Baikal–Amur Mainline (Байкало-Амурская магистраль, БАМ, Baikalo-Amurskaya magistral', BAM) is a broad-gauge railway line in Russia.
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Barrow Hematite Steel Company
The Barrow Hematite Steel Company Limited was a major iron and steel producer based in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire (now Cumbria), England, between 1859 and 1963.
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Baulk road
Baulk road is the name given to a type of railway track or 'rail road' that is formed using rails carried on continuous timber bearings, as opposed to the more familiar 'cross-sleeper' track that uses closely spaced sleepers or ties to give intermittent support to stronger rails. Rail profile and Baulk road are permanent way.
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Benjamin Outram
Benjamin Outram (1 April 1764 – 22 May 1805) was an English civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist.
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Bethlehem Steel
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was an American steelmaking company headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Bhilai Steel Plant
The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), located in Bhilai, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, is India's first and main producer of steel rails, as well as a major producer of wide steel plates and other steel products.
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Branch line
A branch line is a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line.
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British Standards
British Standards (BS) are the standards produced by the BSI Group which is incorporated under a royal charter and which is formally designated as the national standards body (NSB) for the UK.
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British Steel (2016–present)
British Steel Limited is a long steel products business founded in 2016 with assets acquired from Tata Steel Europe by Greybull Capital, then acquired by Jingye Group in 2020.
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Brittleness
A material is brittle if, when subjected to stress, it fractures with little elastic deformation and without significant plastic deformation.
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Butterley Company
The Butterley Company was an English manufacturing firm founded as Benjamin Outram and Company in 1790.
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Cambridgeshire Guided Busway
The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway is a guided busway that connects Cambridge, Huntingdon and St Ives in Cambridgeshire, England.
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Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company
The Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, usually shortened to the Camden and Amboy Railroad, was a railway company in New Jersey.
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Cast iron
Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.
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Călărași steel works
The Călărași steel works (Combinatul Siderurgic Călărași), formally Donasid Călărași and formerly Siderca Călărași, is a steel mill in Călărași, Romania.
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Charles Blacker Vignoles
Charles Blacker Vignoles (31 May 1793 – 17 November 1875) was an influential British railway engineer, and eponym of the Vignoles rail.
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Charles Cadwell
Charles Cadwell, was an American professor at the Case School of Applied Science (now Case Western Reserve University), in Cleveland, Ohio. Rail profile and Charles Cadwell are rail technologies.
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Classification yard
A classification yard (American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English, as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railway cars onto one of several tracks.
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Colorado Fuel and Iron
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) was a large steel conglomerate founded by the merger of previous business interests in 1892.
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Comparison of train and tram tracks
A railway or railroad is a track where the vehicle travels over two parallel steel bars, called rails. Rail profile and Comparison of train and tram tracks are permanent way.
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Cone
A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex.
Continental Europe
Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands.
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Creosote
Creosote is a category of carbonaceous chemicals formed by the distillation of various tars and pyrolysis of plant-derived material, such as wood, or fossil fuel.
Cycling
Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other type of cycle.
Derailment
In rail transport, a derailment is a type of train wreck that occurs when a rail vehicle such as a train comes off its rails. Rail profile and derailment are rail technologies.
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Derby railway station
Derby railway station (also known as Derby Midland) is a main line railway station serving the city of Derby in Derbyshire, England.
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Dowlais Ironworks
The Dowlais Ironworks was a major ironworks and steelworks located at Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales.
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Evraz
EVRAZ plc (Евраз) is a UK-incorporated multinational steel manufacturing and mining company part-owned by Russian oligarchs.
Exothermic welding
Exothermic welding, also known as exothermic bonding, thermite welding (TW), and thermit welding, is a welding process that employs molten metal to permanently join the conductors.
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Gijón
Gijón or italics is a city and municipality in north-western Spain.
Gondola (rail)
In North American railroad terminology, a gondola or gondola car is typically an open-topped railroad car used for transporting loose bulk materials, though there are also covered gondola cars.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.
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Groove (engineering)
In manufacturing or mechanical engineering a groove is a long and narrow indentation built into a material, generally for the purpose of allowing another material or part to move within the groove and be guided by it.
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Gruppo Lucchini
Gruppo Lucchini was the third largest Italian steel group after Gruppo Riva and Techint, with a 2005 production of 3.5 million tonnes.
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Guide bar
The rubber-tyred metro systems that incorporate track have angle irons as guide bars, or guiding bars, outside of the two roll ways.
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Guided bus
Guided buses are buses capable of being steered by external means, usually on a dedicated track or roll way that excludes other traffic, permitting the maintenance of schedules even during rush hours.
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Hans Goldschmidt
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Goldschmidt (18 January 1861 – 21 May 1923) was a German chemist notable as the discoverer of the Thermite reaction.
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Heritage railway
A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.
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History of rail transport
The history of rail transport began before the beginning of the common era.
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History of the railway track
The railway track or permanent way is the elements of railway lines: generally the pairs of rails typically laid on the sleepers or ties embedded in ballast, intended to carry the ordinary trains of a railway. Rail profile and History of the railway track are permanent way.
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Hull and Selby Railway
The Hull and Selby Railway is a railway line between Kingston upon Hull and Selby in the United Kingdom which was authorised by an act of 1836 and opened in 1840.
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Hunting oscillation
Hunting oscillation is a self-oscillation, usually unwanted, about an equilibrium. Rail profile and Hunting oscillation are rail technologies.
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I-beam
An I-beam is any of various structural members with an or -shaped cross-section. Rail profile and i-beam are structural steel.
Imperial units
The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
Iron ore
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.
Ironmaster
An ironmaster is the manager, and usually owner, of a forge or blast furnace for the processing of iron.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".
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JFE Holdings
is a corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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John Birkinshaw
John Birkinshaw (1777–1842) was a railway engineer from Bedlington, Northumberland noted for his invention of wrought iron rails in 1820 (patented on October 23, 1820).
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John Howard Kyan
John Howard Kyan (27 November 1774 – 5 January 1850) was the inventor of the 'kyanising' process for preserving wood.
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Kansas City Southern Railway
The Kansas City Southern Railway Company was an American Class I railroad.
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Kardemir
Kardemir is a Turkish steel producer.
Katowice Steelworks
Katowice Steelworks (Polish: Huta Katowice) is a large steel plant, located in southern Poland, on the boundary between the historical provinces of Lesser Poland and Upper Silesia.
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Lackawanna Steel Company
The Lackawanna Steel Company was an American steel manufacturing company that existed as an independent company from 1840 to 1922, and as a subsidiary of the Bethlehem Steel company from 1922 to 1983.
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Liberty Steel Group
Liberty Steel Group Holdings UK Ltd (LSG), which is also referred to as Liberty House or Liberty House UK, is a British industrial and metals company founded in the United Kingdom in 1992 by industrialist Sanjeev Gupta.
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Light rail
Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit using rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from heavy rapid transit.
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was the first inter-city railway in the world.
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London and Birmingham Railway
The London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom, in operation from 1833 to 1846, when it became part of the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR).
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London and Croydon Railway
The London and Croydon Railway (L&CR) was an early railway in England.
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London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.
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London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England.
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Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal
The Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal is a disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built to link Bolton and Bury with Manchester.
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Mercury(II) chloride
Mercury(II) chloride (or mercury bichloride, mercury dichloride), historically also known as sulema or corrosive sublimate, is the inorganic chemical compound of mercury and chlorine with the formula HgCl2, used as a laboratory reagent.
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Metinvest
Metinvest is an international group of steel and mining companies that owns operations in Ukraine, Italy, Bulgaria, the UK and the US, mines ore and coal, produces coke, smelts steel and produces rolled products, pipes and other steel products.
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Metonymy
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.
New York Central Railroad
The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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New York City Subway
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.
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Newcastle and North Shields Railway
The Newcastle & North Shields Railway opened in June 1839 from a temporary terminus in Carliol Square in Newcastle upon Tyne to North Shields.
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Nippon Steel
is Japan's largest steelmaker, headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Ostrava
Ostrava (Ostrawa, Ostrau) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region.
Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Plateway
A plateway is an early kind of railway, tramway or wagonway, where the rails are made from cast iron.
Post-Soviet states
The post-Soviet states, also referred to as the former Soviet Union (FSU) or the former Soviet republics, are the independent sovereign states that emerged/re-emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Profile (engineering)
In standardization, a profile is a subset internal to a specification.
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Pueblo, Colorado
Pueblo is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States.
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Queensland Rail
Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia.
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Rail fastening system
A rail fastening system is a means of fixing rails to railroad ties (North America) or sleepers (British Isles, Australasia, and Africa).
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Rail profile
The rail profile is the cross sectional shape of a railway rail, perpendicular to its length. Rail profile and rail profile are permanent way, rail technologies and structural steel.
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Rail squeal
Rail squeal is a screeching train-track friction sound, commonly occurring on sharp curves. Rail profile and Rail squeal are permanent way.
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Railroad tie
A railroad tie, crosstie (American English), railway tie (Canadian English) or railway sleeper (Australian and British English) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Rail profile and railroad tie are permanent way.
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Railway Gazette International
Railway Gazette International is a British monthly business magazine and news website covering the railway, metro, light rail and tram industries worldwide.
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Railway track
A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as a train track or permanent way (often "perway" in Australia), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade. Rail profile and railway track are permanent way and structural steel.
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Rapid transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas.
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Road surface
A road surface (British English) or pavement (North American English) is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot traffic, such as a road or walkway.
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Road–rail vehicle
A road–rail vehicle or a rail–road vehicle is a dual-mode vehicle which can operate both on rail tracks and roads.
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Robert Forester Mushet
Robert Forester Mushet (8 April 1811 – 29 January 1891) was a British metallurgist and businessman, born on 8 April 1811, in Coleford, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England.
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Robert L. Stevens
Colonel Robert Livingston Stevens (October 18, 1787 – April 20, 1856) was an American inventor and steamship builder who served as president of the Camden and Amboy Railroad in the 1830s and 1840s.
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Rodange
Rodange (Rodingen) (Réiden op der Kor, Réidéng) is a town in the commune of Pétange, in south-western Luxembourg.
In metalworking, rolling is a metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through one or more pairs of rolls to reduce the thickness, to make the thickness uniform, and/or to impart a desired mechanical property.
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Rubber-tyred metro
A rubber-tyred metro or rubber-tired metro is a form of rapid transit system that uses a mix of road and rail technology.
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Siding (rail)
A siding, in rail terminology, is a low-speed track section distinct from a running line or through route such as a main line, branch line, or spur.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is a central public sector undertaking (PSU) based in New Delhi, India.
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Steel Dynamics
Steel Dynamics, Inc. (SDI) is an American steel producer based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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Steelton, Pennsylvania
Steelton is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, southeast of Harrisburg.
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Stockton and Darlington Railway
The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863.
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Structural steel
Structural steel is a category of steel used for making construction materials in a variety of shapes.
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Sydney Steel Corporation
Sydney Steel Corporation (SYSCO) was a Crown corporation in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Track ballast
Track ballast is the material which forms the trackbed upon which railroad ties (UK: sleepers) are laid. Rail profile and track ballast are permanent way.
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Track gauge
In rail transport, track gauge is the distance between the two rails of a railway track.
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Train
A train (from Old French trahiner, from Latin trahere, "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight.
Tram
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.
Tramway track
Tramway track is used on tramways or light rail operations. Rail profile and tramway track are permanent way.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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Voestalpine
Voestalpine AG – stylized as voestalpine – is an Austrian steel-based technology and capital goods group based in Linz, Austria.
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Wagonway
Wagonways (also spelt Waggonways), also known as horse-drawn railways and horse-drawn railroad consisted of the horses, equipment and tracks used for hauling wagons, which preceded steam-powered railways.
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.
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Whyalla Steelworks
The Whyalla Steelworks is a fully integrated steelworks and the only manufacturer of rail in Australia.
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William Henry Barlow
William Henry Barlow (10 May 1812 – 12 November 1902) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway engineering projects.
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William Jessop
William Jessop (23 January 1745 – 18 November 1814) was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Wrought iron
Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%).
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See also
Permanent way
- Axe tie
- Barlow rail
- Baulk road
- Breather switch
- Clip and scotch
- Comparison of train and tram tracks
- Concrete sleeper
- Fishplate
- Flange-bearing frog
- Gauntlet track
- Green track
- Guard rail (rail transport)
- High-speed grinding
- High-speed railway track construction in France
- History of the railway track
- Jim crow (tool)
- Junction (rail)
- Ladder track
- Loading gauge
- Maintenance of way
- Rail fastening systems
- Rail inspection
- Rail profile
- Rail squeal
- Rail stressing
- Railroad tie
- Railway track
- Roll way
- Route availability
- Sandite
- Subgrade
- Track ballast
- Track bed
- Track geometry
- Tramway track
- Wheel–rail interface
- Y-shape steel sleeper
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_profile
Also known as Bridge rail, Bridge rail (rail), Bullhead rail, Double-headed rail, Edge rail (rail profile), Fishbelly rail, Flange rail, Flanged T rail, Flanged rail, Flat-bottom rail, Girder rail, Groove rail, Grooved rail, Grooved tram rail, LR55 system, Phoenix rail, Pound (rail), Rail size, Rail weight, Strap iron rail, Strap rail, Strap-iron rail, T-rail, Tangential turnout, Types of rail profile, Vignoles rail.
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