Rail and components for trams or light rail vehicles
"Tram track" redirects here. For the medical usage of the term, see Tram track (medicine).
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Tramway track is used on tramways or light rail operations. As with standard rail tracks, tram tracks have two parallel steel rails, the distance between the heads of the rails being the track gauge. When there is no need for pedestrians or road vehicles to traverse the track, conventional flat-bottom rail is used. However, when such traffic exists, such as in urban streets, grooved rails are used.
Tram rails can be placed on several surfaces, such as on ground over which track ballast topped by sleepers (US: ties) and flat-bottom rails are laid – as with railway tracks – or, for street running, with grooved rails usually embedded into a concrete pavement. In some places, tracks are laid into grass turf surfaces; they are known as green track, grassed track or track in lawn.
Tramwaytrack is used on tramways or light rail operations. As with standard rail tracks, tram tracks have two parallel steel rails, the distance between...
railcars or self-propelled trains coupled by a multiple unit, that runs on tramwaytracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way...
An aerial tramway, aerial tram, sky tram, aerial cablecar, aerial cableway, telepherique, or seilbahn is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary...
the track of a rubber-tyred metro Rubber-tyred metro Street running Subgrade Tie plate TGV track construction Tramway (industrial) Tramwaytrack W. S...
Old Cleveland Road TramwayTracks is a heritage-listed tramway along Old Cleveland Road in Camp Hill and Carina, adjoining suburbs in the City of Brisbane...
The Nice tram (French: Tramway de Nice Italian: Tram di Nizza) is a 27.5-kilometre (17.1 mi), triple-line tram in the city of Nice in Provence-Alpes-Côte...
some tramway systems. It is used especially where an overhead system would be obtrusive. As the studs would be on open roads rather than special track, methods...
The National Tramway Museum (trading as Crich Tramway Village) is a tram museum located at Crich (listen), Derbyshire, England. The museum contains over...
similarly runs on a reserved track along the seafront. These are also the two surviving first-generation town tramways in the UK, though the majority...
equivalent any-to-any connection of a grand union, but with a simplified tramwaytrack configuration using one-way traffic, fewer turnouts and reduction in...
The Bordeaux tramway network (French: Tramway de Bordeaux) consists of four lines serving the city of Bordeaux in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France...
The Devonport & Lake Takapuna Tramway was a 1-mile (1.6 km) horse tramway system in Auckland, New Zealand that operated between Victoria Wharf in Devonport...
tracks which trams run on (also a section of reserved track for trams) Aerial tramwayTramway, North Carolina, locality in the United States Tramway (arts...
The Sydney tramway network served the inner suburbs of Sydney, Australia, from 1879 until 1961. In its heyday, it was the largest in Australia, the second...
The Great Orme Tramway (Welsh: Tramffordd y Gogarth) is a cable-hauled 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge tramway in Llandudno in north Wales. Open seasonally...
locomotive specially built, or modified, to run on a street, or roadside, tramwaytrack. In the steam locomotive era, tram engines had to comply with certain...
bridge was built in 1823, originally to carry a tramwaytrack of the horse-drawn Stratford and Moreton Tramway. It was designed by John Urpeth Rastrick. It...
The tramway has carried more than 12 million passengers since its maiden voyage, on May 7, 1966. New tram cars were installed in 1986, and new track cables...
The Seaton Tramway is a 2 ft 9 in (838 mm) narrow gauge electric tramway in the East Devon district of South West England. The 3-mile (4.8 km) route runs...
The Roosevelt Island Tramway is an aerial tramway that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Roosevelt Island to the Upper East Side of Manhattan...
Madras Tramway was the former organization that was responsible for building the first tramways in India in the city of Madras. It was existent in the...
The Woltersdorf Tramway (Woltersdorfer Straßenbahn) is a standard gauge tramway, located in Woltersdorf, Brandenburg, near Berlin, Germany. The line is...
This is a list of town tramway systems in the United Kingdom divided by constituent country and by regions of England. It includes all tram systems, past...
conventional sleepers (railroad ties). Many modern tramway/light rail systems operate over reserved track formerly forming part of a heavy-rail network, e...
The Christchurch tramway system was an extensive network in Christchurch, New Zealand, with steam and horse trams from 1882. Electric trams ran from 1905...
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