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These include simple rail adhesion, rack railways and cable inclines (including rail mounted water tanks to carry barges). To help with braking on the descent, a non-load-bearing "brake rail" located between the running rails can be used, similar to the rail used in the Fell system , e.g. by the Snaefell Mountain Railway on the Isle of Man.
The Pilatus Railway is the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%. The Mount Washington Cog Railway is the oldest mountain-climbing rack railway in the world, opening in 1868. Functioning of the rack and pinion on the Strub system. A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog ...
Rail services are generally managed by the Welsh Government whilst rail infrastructure is generally the responsibility of the UK Government. Rail in Wales is mostly operated by Transport for Wales Rail. Current developments include the North Wales Metro, South Wales Metro and Swansea Bay and West Wales Metro .
Much of the South Wales Main Line was built between the 1830s and 1886; originally trains to and from destinations in England ran via Chepstow, Gloucester and Stroud, joining the Great Western Main Line at Swindon. A more direct route was challenging yet desirable, leading to the construction of the line's most prominent civil engineering ...
Valleys & Cardiff Local Routes ( Welsh: Llwybrau Lleol y Cymoedd a Chaerdydd) (formerly Valley Lines) is the network of passenger suburban railway services radiating from Cardiff, Wales. It includes lines within the city itself, the Vale of Glamorgan and the South Wales Valleys. [1] The services are currently operated by Transport for Wales Rail.
Route map. Transport for Wales Rail Limited, branded as Transport for Wales and TfW Rail ( Welsh: Trafnidiaeth Cymru and TrC Trenau ), is a Welsh publicly owned train operating company, a subsidiary of Transport for Wales (TfW), a Welsh Government -owned company. It commenced operations of the day to day services of the Wales & Borders ...
The line from London to the Channel Tunnel is the only line designated 'high speed', although the other main routes also operate limited-stop express services. The bulk of the secondary network is concentrated in London and the surrounding East and South East regions; an area marketed by National Rail as London and the South East.
Welsh Marches line. The Welsh Marches line ( Welsh: Llinell y Mers ), known historically as the North and West Route, is the railway line running from Newport in south-east Wales to Shrewsbury in the West Midlands region of England by way of Abergavenny, Hereford and Craven Arms and thence (by some definitions) to Crewe via Whitchurch. The line ...