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  • The Lake Lock Rail Road was an early, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) long, horse-drawn narrow gauge railway built near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England...
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    Fly system (redirect from Fly rail)
    stacked (rail over rail) arrangement. Mobile pin rails may also be used and are bolted down to the stage deck where needed. A locking rail is typically...
    64 KB (9,907 words) - 11:36, 29 April 2024
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    An anti-lock braking system (ABS) is a safety anti-skid braking system used on aircraft and on land vehicles, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, and buses...
    61 KB (7,493 words) - 17:32, 19 May 2024
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    first public edgeway (thus also first public railway) built was Lake Lock Rail Road in 1796. Although the primary purpose of the line was to carry coal...
    108 KB (12,394 words) - 22:03, 19 May 2024
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    Wagonway (redirect from Edge rail)
    to manufacture edge-rails. Another example of the edge rail application was the Lake Lock Rail Road in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now West Yorkshire)...
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    the oldest known railway tunnel located at Fritchley. 1798 – The Lake Lock Rail Road, arguably the world's first public railway, opened in 1798 to carry...
    54 KB (6,834 words) - 20:45, 20 May 2024
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    rope and the handle to ensure that the lock cannot be accidentally released. Rope locks are mounted to a locking rail, which provides structural support and...
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    first public edgeway (thus also first public railway) built was the Lake Lock Rail Road in 1796. Although the primary purpose of the line was to carry coal...
    108 KB (13,445 words) - 16:36, 27 March 2024
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    "kick rail". A middle rail at the height of the bolt is known as the "lock rail", other middle rails are commonly known as "cross rails". Mullions – Smaller...
    67 KB (9,149 words) - 11:30, 19 May 2024
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    46 m) natural rise between Lock E35 and the Niagara River. There is no Lock E1 or Lock E31 on the Erie Canal. The place of "Lock E1" on the passage from...
    93 KB (9,929 words) - 23:35, 24 April 2024
  • of the first backers of an American Transcontinental Railway. The Lake Lock Rail Road near Wakefield opens. First known use of cast-iron chaired 'fish-belly'...
    7 KB (585 words) - 23:36, 29 March 2024
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    moved simultaneously. The first public railway in the world was the Lake Lock Rail Road, a narrow gauge railway built near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England...
    61 KB (6,261 words) - 07:13, 12 April 2024
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    minimum gauge railway for clarification. Model railway gauges are covered in rail transport modelling scales. Railways with a track gauge between 500 mm (19+3⁄4 in)...
    52 KB (1,228 words) - 13:19, 13 May 2024
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    National Rail timetable, May 2022 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Enfield Lock railway station. Train times and station information for Enfield Lock railway...
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    The 1913 rail (MIL-STD-1913 rail), also known as the Picatinny rail (1913 Picatinny rail etc.) is an American rail integration system designed by Richard...
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    pistols are recoil-operated, locked breech semi-automatic pistols. These pistols use a relatively rare rotating barrel locking system, in which the barrel...
    10 KB (1,084 words) - 11:02, 11 April 2024
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    The Panama Canal locks (Spanish: Esclusas del Canal de Panamá) are a lock system that lifts ships up 85 feet (26 metres) to the main elevation of the Panama...
    19 KB (2,393 words) - 11:59, 9 May 2024
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    Little Eaton Gangway of 1793; the 3 ft 4+3⁄4 in (1,035 mm) gauge Lake Lock Rail Road of 1796; the 2 ft 1⁄2 in (622 mm) gauge Penrhyn Railroad of 1801;...
    71 KB (2,559 words) - 11:28, 13 May 2024
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    switches by outside means, these switches are locked when not in use. A facing point lock (FPL), or point lock, is a device which, as the name implies, locks...
    60 KB (7,928 words) - 22:11, 27 April 2024
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    Lock and Dam No. 19 is a lock and dam located on the Upper Mississippi River near Keokuk, Iowa. In 1978, the Keokuk Lock and Dam was listed in the National...
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