Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of conveyance of passengers and goods, by way of wheeled vehicles running on rails.

It is also commonly referred to as train transport. In contrast to road transport, where vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles are also directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Track usually consists of steel rails, installed on ties (sleepers) and ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves. Other variations are also possible, such as slab track where the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface.

Rolling stock in railway transport systems generally has lower frictional resistance when compared with highway vehicles and the passenger and freight cars (carriages and wagons) can be coupled into longer trains. The operation is carried out by a railway company, providing transport between train stations or freight customer facilities. Power is provided by locomotives which either draw electric power from a railway electrification system or produce their own power, usually by diesel engines. Most tracks are accompanied by a signalling system. Railways are a safe land transport system when compared to other forms of transport. Railway transport is capable of high levels of passenger and cargo utilization and energy efficiency, but is often less flexible and more capital-intensive than highway transport is, when lower traffic levels are considered.

Railways (film)

Railways (RAILWAYS 49歳で電車の運転士になった男の物語 Railways 49-sai de Densha no Untenshi ni Natta Otoko no Monogatari) is a Japanese film released on 29 May 2010. The film was produced by Shūji Abe, directed by Yoshinari Nishikōri, and stars Kiichi Nakai and Reiko Takashima.

Plot

The movie tells the story of a 49-year-old office worker, who quits his job in Tokyo to become a train driver on the rural Ichibata Electric Railway in Shimane Prefecture.

Cast

  • Kiichi Nakai as Hajime Tsutsui
  • Yuika Motokariya as Sachi, Hajime's daughter
  • Reiko Takashima as Yukiko, Hajime's wife
  • Tomoko Naraoka as Kinyo, Hajime's mother
  • Takahiro Miura as Miyata Daigo
  • Isao Hashizume as the Ichibata Railway chief
  • Shiro Sano as the Ichibata Railway deputy
  • Yoshiko Miyazaki as Moriyama, a nurse
  • Kenichi Endo as Kawahira
  • Ken Nakamoto as Nishida
  • Masahiro Komoto as Fukushima, the chief instructor
  • Tetsu Watanabe as Takahashi, a veteran train mechanic
  • Kanta Ogata as Yabuuchi, the train driver trainer
  • Masanori Ishii as Takubo, the railway controller
  • Railway (disambiguation)

    A railway is a means of transport.

    Railway, Railways or The Railway may also refer to:

    Arts

  • The Railway, a 1873 painting by Édouard Manet, also known as Gare Saint-Lazare
  • The Railway (poem), a 1864 poem by Nikolai Nekrasov
  • Railways (film), a 2010 Japanese film
  • The Railway: Keeping Britain On Track, a 2013 British tv documentary series
  • Railways Africa, a magazine covering rail transport in Africa and the Middle East
  • Railways Illustrated, a British magazine
  • Hotels and pubs

  • The Railway, Altrincham, a pub in Cheshire, England
  • The Railway Hotel, a hotel in Hua Hin, Thailand
  • The Railway Hotel, Southend, a pub in Essex, England
  • Sports

  • Railways Cricket Association, see Railways Sports Promotion Board
  • Railways cricket team, one of several types of sports teams in India referred to as Indian Railways
  • Railways Football Club, a modern Albany (Western Australia) sports team
  • Railways Football Club, an Australian sports league established 1896, see Goldfields Football League
  • Railways football team, a football (soccer) team in India
  • Gauge (knitting)

    In knitting, the word gauge is used both in hand knitting and machine knitting; the latter, technical abbreviation GG, refers to "Knitting Machines" fineness size. In both cases, the term refers to the number of stitches per inch, not the size of the finished garment. In both cases, the gauge is measured by counting the number of stitches (in hand knitting) or the number of needles (on a knitting machine bed) over several inches then dividing by the number of inches in the width of the sample.

    Gauge on knitting machines

    There are two types of classification of Knitting Gauges or Unit of Measure:

  • A – Used for Cotton Fully fashion flat machines (Bentley – Monk, Textima, Sheller etc..) where “Gauge” is measured in 1,5” Inches (2,54 cm x 1,5) and the machine's gauge is expressed by the number of needles needed to achieve that gauge.
  • B – Used for hand, mechanical or modern Electronic Flat Machines (Stoll, Shima, Protti etc..), where gauge is measured in 1 inch increments (or 2,5 cm) and the machine's gauge is similarly measured by the number of needles required to achieve that number.
  • Gauge (software)

    Gauge is a light weight cross-platform test automation tool. It provides the ability to author test cases in the business language. It has an extremely modular plugin supported architecture, which make it very flexible and scalable. It uses Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test-driven development (TDD) for functional testing of the application.

    Some of its key features include:

  • A rich markup based on markdown
  • Support for writing test code in any programming language.
  • A modular architecture with plugin support.
  • Consistency across language implementations.
  • The currently supported languages for test code in gauge are:

  • Java
  • Ruby
  • C#
  • Gauge (instrument)

    A gauge or gage, in science and engineering, is a device used to make measurements or in order to display certain information, like time. A wide variety of tools exist which serve such functions, ranging from simple pieces of material against which sizes can be measured to complex pieces of machinery. Depending on usage, a gauge can be described as "a device for measuring a physical quantity", for example "to determine thickness, gap in space, diameter of materials, or pressure of flow", or "a device that displays the measurement of a monitored system by the use of a needle or pointer that moves along a calibrated scale".

    Basic types

    All gauges can be divided into four main types, independent of their actual use.

  • Analogue instrument meter with analogue display ("needles"). Until the later decades the most common basic type.
  • Digital instrument meter with analogue display. A screen that shows an "analogue meter", commonly used in modern aircraft cockpits, and some hospital equipment etc.
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