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1Creep (film) — Creep Theatrical release poster Directed by Christopher Smith Produced by Jason Newmark Julie Baines …
2Rail adhesion — Driving wheel of steam locomotive The term adhesion railway or adhesion traction describes the most common type of railway, where power is applied by driving some or all of the wheels of the locomotive. Thus, it relies on the friction between a… …
3Rail transport in fiction — Examples of railways in fiction include:* Back to the Future Part III The improvised method of propelling the time machine to 88MPH in 1885 was by using a steam locomotive, also Emmett Brown refitted a similar train as the basis of his new time… …
4rail creep — noun : the longtudinal movement of rail produced by the passage of trains over it …
5Link Light Rail — Infobox Public transit name = Link Light Rail imagesize = 200px locale = Seattle metropolitan area transit type = Light rail began operation = Tacoma Link: August 22 2003 Central Link: est. 2009 system length = 17.3 lines = 2 stations = 9… …
6British Rail Class 59 — 59001 Yeoman Endeavour at Doncaster Works in revised Foster Yeoman livery on 27 July 2003 Power type Diesel electric Builder …
7Mendip Rail — The railhead at Torr Works Mendip Rail Ltd is an independent freight operating railway company in Great Britain. It is composed of the rail operation divisions of Aggregate Industries (formerly Foster Yeoman) and Hanson Aggregates (previously… …
8locomotive — locomotively, adv. locomotiveness, locomotivity, n. /loh keuh moh tiv/, n. 1. a self propelled, vehicular engine, powered by steam, a diesel, or electricity, for pulling or, sometimes, pushing a train or individual railroad cars. 2. an organized… …
9Glossary of cue sports terms — The following is a glossary of traditional English language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom (or carambole) billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool (pocket… …
10Permanent way — The permanent way means the physical elements of the railway line itself: generally the pairs of rails typically laid on sleepers embedded in ballast, intended to carry the ordinary trains of a railway. This page describes British practice and… …
