Worksheetsrail transport
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 13mins
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transferring passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are located on tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles (rolling stock) are directionally guided by the tracks on which they run.
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Tracks usually consist of steel rails, installed on sleepers (ties) set in ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves.
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Locomotives always pull trains from the front.
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Trains are not able to travel at a very high speed.
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Does a locomotive have a payload capacity itself?
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A locomotive is a vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.
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A railway can be broken down into three major components.
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Derailment occurs when a vehicle such as a train runs off its rails
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An industrial railway is a type of railway (always private) that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular industrial, logistics or a military site.
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a head-on collission
derailment
a collission with a car
In the photo you can see:
a head-on collission
derailment
a collission with a car
What is it:
a head-on collission
derailment
a collission with a car
a typical railway track consists of:
two parallel rails
railroad ties
barriers
railway stations
Rail transport is a part of a logistic chain.
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a rolling stock include:
locomotives
passenger- carrying vehicles
barriers
goods wagons
sygnalling equipment
