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  2. Third rail - Wikipedia

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    The new tramway in Bordeaux (France) uses a novel system with a third rail in the centre of the track. The third rail is separated into 10 m (32 ft 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long conducting and 3 m (9 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) long isolation segments. Each conducting segment is attached to an electronic circuit which will make the segment live once it lies ...

  3. Tyne and Wear Metro - Wikipedia

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    The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system [4] [5] [6] serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the City of Sunderland (together forming Tyne and Wear ). It has been described as the "first modern light rail system in the United Kingdom". [7]

  4. Namma Metro - Wikipedia

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    Namma Metro (meaning Our Metro in Kannada), also known as Bengaluru Metro, is a rapid transit system serving the city of Bengaluru, the capital city of the state of Karnataka, India. It is the second longest operational metro network in India with an operational length of 73.75 kilometers, just behind Delhi Metro .

  5. Sydney Metro - Wikipedia

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    Top speed. 100 km/h (62.1 mph) [8] System map. Sydney Metro is a fully automated rapid transit system in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The first component, the Metro North West Line, opened on 26 May 2019, running between Tallawong and Chatswood. It currently consists of 13 stations and 36 km (22.4 mi) of twin tracks, mostly underground.

  6. Poughkeepsie station - Wikipedia

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    Poughkeepsie station is a Metro-North Railroad and Amtrak stop serving the city of Poughkeepsie, New York. The station is the northern terminus of Metro-North's Hudson Line, and an intermediate stop for Amtrak's several Empire Corridor trains. Built in 1918, the main station building is meant to be a much smaller version of Grand Central Terminal.

  7. Harlem–125th Street station - Wikipedia

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    History. The current station was built in 1896–97 and designed by Morgan O'Brien, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad principal architect. It replaced an earlier one that was built in 1874 when the New York Central and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the ancestors of today's Metro-North, moved the tracks from an open cut to the present-day elevated viaduct.

  8. Riyadh Metro - Wikipedia

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    Olaya metro station is one of the three main transportation stations in the Riyadh Metro. Gerber Architekten won the competition for the metro station in 2012. Construction started in 2014 and planned to be completed in 2019. This station will allow access for Line 1 and Line 2 trains. The gross floor area (GFA) is about 97,000 m 2 (1,040,000 ...

  9. Derby–Shelton station - Wikipedia

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    Derby/Shelton. / 41.3202843; -73.0835652. Derby–Shelton station (signed as Derby/Shelton) is a commuter rail station on the Waterbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, serving the cities of Derby and Shelton, Connecticut. It is the southernmost stop on the Waterbury Branch before trains merge onto the Northeast Corridor .