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Waterbalast railway, the Glossary

A Waterballast railway is a funicular or aerial tramway without a prime mover that uses gravity as its motive power.^[1]

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Aerial tramways
Funicular railways
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Aerial lift

An aerial lift, also known as a cable car or ropeway, is a means of cable transport in which cabins, cars, gondolas, or open chairs are hauled above the ground by means of one or more cables.

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An aerial tramway, aerial tram, sky tram, aerial cablecar, aerial cableway, telepherique, or seilbahn is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion. Waterbalast railway and aerial tramway are aerial tramways.

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Bad Ems

Bad Ems is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Ballast

Ballast is dense material used as a weight to provide stability to a vehicle or structure.

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Biel–Magglingen Funicular

The Biel–Magglingen Funicular (German: Magglingenbahn; French: Funiculaire Bienne–Macolin) is a funicular railway in the bilingual city of Biel/Bienne in the Swiss canton of Bern.

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Bom Jesus do Monte Funicular

The Bom Jesus do Monte Funicular (Elevador do Bom Jesus do Monte), is a Portuguese funicular transport in civil parish of Nogueiró e Tenões, in the municipality of Braga, in the district of the same name.

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Braga

Braga (Bracara) is a city and a municipality, capital of the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province.

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Cable railway

A cable railway is a railway that uses a cable, rope or chain to haul trains. Waterbalast railway and cable railway are railways by type.

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Centre for Alternative Technology

The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) (Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen) is an eco-centre in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales dedicated to demonstrating and teaching sustainable development.

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Centre for Alternative Technology Railway

The Centre for Alternative Technology Railway is a funicular opened in May 1992Jones, Mark: Lost Railways Of North Wales, page 105.

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Chocolat Suchard

Chocolat Suchard was a chocolate factory founded in Serrières (a neighborhood of Neuchâtel) by Philippe Suchard in 1826.

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Decauville

Decauville was a manufacturing company which was founded by Paul Decauville (1846–1922), a French pioneer in industrial railways. Waterbalast railway and Decauville are railways by type.

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Festungsbahn (Salzburg)

The Festungsbahn is a funicular railway providing access to Hohensalzburg Fortress in Salzburg municipality in Austria.

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Folkestone

Folkestone is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England.

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Fribourg

italics is the capital of the Swiss canton of Fribourg and district of La Sarine.

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Fribourg funicular

The Fribourg funicular, also known as the Neuveville - Saint-Pierre funicular, is a funicular railway in the Swiss town of Fribourg.

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Funiculaire de Cossonay

The Funiculaire de Cossonay is a funicular railway connecting the town of Cossonay in the Swiss canton of Vaud with Cossonay-Penthalaz railway station, on the line from Lausanne to Vallorbe and Yverdon-les-Bains.

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Funiculaire Ecluse–Plan

Funiculaire Ecluse - Plan is a funicular railway in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

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Funiculaire Lausanne-Signal

Funiculaire Lausanne-Signal was a funicular railway in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Funiculaire Suchard in Serrières

Funiculaire Suchard in Serrières was a funicular railway in Serrières, canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

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Funicular

A funicular is a type of cable railway system that connects points along a railway track laid on a steep slope. Waterbalast railway and funicular are funicular railways and railways by type.

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Gütsch Funicular

The Gütsch Funicular, also known as the Drahtseilbahn Gütsch (DBG) or simply the Gütschbahn, is a funicular railway in the city of Lucerne in the Swiss canton of Lucerne.

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Giessbachbahn

The Giessbach Funicular (Giessbachbahn) is a historic funicular in the Swiss canton of Bern and municipality of Brienz.

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Heidelberger Bergbahn

The Heidelberg Mountain Railway (Heidelberger Bergbahn) is a two-section funicular railway in the city of Heidelberg, Germany.

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Inclined elevator

An inclined elevator or inclined lift is a form of cable railway that hauls rail cars up a steep gradient.

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Lauterbrunnen–Mürren Mountain Railway

The Lauterbrunnen–Mürren Mountain Railway (Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen–Mürren, BLM, also known as Mürrenbahn) is a hybrid transport system in the Bernese Oberland area of Switzerland, which connects the villages of Lauterbrunnen and Mürren.

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Leas Lift

The Leas Lift is a grade II* listed funicular railway that carries passengers between the seafront and the promenade in Folkestone, Kent.

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Lugano Città–Stazione funicular

The Lugano Città–Stazione funicular, Funicolare Lugano Città–Stazione, or Sassellina, is a funicular railway in the city of Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino.

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Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway

The Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway is a water-powered funicular joining the twin towns of Lynton and Lynmouth on the rugged coast of North Devon in southwest England.

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Machynlleth

Machynlleth is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire.

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Marseille

Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

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Marzili Funicular

The Marzilibahn, officially the Drahtseilbahn Marzili–Stadt Bern (Funicular Marzili–City of Bern) is a very short funicular in Bern, the capital of Switzerland.

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Mass

Mass is an intrinsic property of a body.

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Mühleggbahn

Mühleggbahn is a funicular in the city of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

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Mechanical equilibrium

In classical mechanics, a particle is in mechanical equilibrium if the net force on that particle is zero.

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Montmartre Funicular

The Montmartre Funicular (Funiculaire de Montmartre) is an inclined transport system serving the Montmartre neighbourhood of Paris, France, in the 18th arrondissement.

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Nerobergbahn

The Nerobergbahn is a funicular railway in Wiesbaden, Germany.

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Neuchâtel

Neuchâtel (Neuenburg) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel on Lake Neuchâtel.

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Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States.

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Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod is the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in Russia.

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Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

The Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin (Nizhegorodskiy kreml') is a fortress (kremlin) in the historic city center of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

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North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber and North East regions of England.

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Pelton wheel

The Pelton wheel or Pelton Turbine is an impulse-type water turbine invented by American inventor Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s.

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Petřín funicular

The Petřín funicular (Lanová dráha na Petřín) is a funicular railway in the Czech capital city of Prague.

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Pipe (fluid conveyance)

A pipe is a tubular section or hollow cylinder, usually but not necessarily of circular cross-section, used mainly to convey substances which can flow — liquids and gases (fluids), slurries, powders and masses of small solids.

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Polybahn

The Polybahn, also known as the UBS Polybahn, is a funicular railway in the city of Zürich, Switzerland.

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Prospect Park Incline Railway

The Prospect Park Incline Railway was a funicular railway in the city of Niagara Falls, New York, United States.

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Pulley

A pulley is a wheel on an axle or shaft enabling a taut cable or belt passing over the wheel to move and change direction, or transfer power between itself and a shaft.

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Rack railway

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. Waterbalast railway and rack railway are railways by type.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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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.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbalast_railway

Also known as Water balance propulsion, Water ballast system, Water counterbalace propulsion, Water counterbalace railway, Water weight cable car, Waterballast drive.

, Railway track, Rheineck–Walzenhausen mountain railway, Saltburn Cliff Lift, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Thunersee–Beatenberg Funicular, Turmbergbahn, United States, Wartensteinbahn, Wheelset (rail transport), Wiesbaden.

Waterbalast railway, the Glossary

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See also

Aerial tramways

Funicular railways

Railways by type

References