| 词汇 | cable-railway |
| 释义 | cable railway noun[ C ] USuk /ˈkeɪ.bəl ˌreɪl.weɪ/ us /ˈkeɪ.bəl ˌreɪl.weɪ/ a transport system that uses cables under the road to pull passenger vehicles up steep slopes缆索铁路 Synonym funicular Railways & railway lines aerial tram aerial tramway Amtrak artery branch line electrify funicular junction level crossing light railway metro railroad RR siding signal signal box switch track unelectrified whistle-stop Before me I saw the turnstile which led to a cable railway. Examples of cable railwaycable railway In order to accommodate intermediate levels, turnouts were used to allow wagons to leave and join the cablerailway part way along its length. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The cablerailway line descends 415 metres through sandstone cliffs, via a rock tunnel with a maximum gradient of 52 degrees. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The concept was similar to the cablerailway system but with pistons suspended beneath the railcar. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It can be considered as a specialised type of cablerailway. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A specific type of cablerailway is the funicular, which is a cablerailway with the cars permanently fixed to the cable. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By the 1820s a number of proposals had been made for canals, and cablerailway had been proposed costing upwards of 500,000, but all these ideas had come to nought. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Tickets not only cover the federal and private railways on standard gauge, but also with one ticket people can go on private mountain railways, on buses and on cable railways. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 While the cable grips used in the original cable railways were manually operated, requiring considerable skill and strength, modern cable grips tend to be automatic. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A similar arrangement is used on the gauntlet track of cable railways and funiculars, and in passing places on single-track roads. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, the unsuitability of cable railways for passengers became clear within a few years. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many cable railways connect to conventional adhesion lines at their top and bottom, allowing trains to be lifted from a lower line to a higher one. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Cable railways generally have two tracks with loaded wagons on one track partially balanced by empty wagons on the other, to minimise fuel costs for the stationary engine. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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