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    the 1960s. The Snaefell Mountain Railway still uses the Fell system for (emergency) braking, but not for traction. The Fell system was designed, developed...
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  • Fell system may refer to: Fell mountain railway system designed by John Barraclough Fell British Rail 10100 designed by Lt Col L F R Fell This disambiguation...
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    are three narrow-gauge railways: the Skarloey Railway, the rack-and-pinion Culdee Fell Mountain Railway, and the Arlesdale Railway. On the west side of...
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    operating on level ground. The Fell mountain railway system, developed in the 1860s, is not strictly speaking a rack railway, since there are no cogs with...
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    The Snaefell Mountain Railway (Manx: Raad Yiarn Sniaull) is an electric mountain railway on the Isle of Man in Europe. It joins the village of Laxey with...
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  • zags Spirals Horseshoe curves Rack railway Fell mountain railway system Elevators, cable railways, or funicular railways driven by stationary engines (cable...
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    steepness, the Fell mountain railway system was used to aid trains on the Rimutaka Incline between Summit and Cross Creek. This railway is now the Remutaka...
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  • transport Fell mountain railway system Heavy rail Inter-city rail High-speed rail Higher-speed rail Heritage railway Monorail Mountain railway Plateway...
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    John Barraclough Fell (1815 – 18 October 1902) was an English railway engineer and inventor of the Fell mountain railway system. Fell spent the early part...
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    Railway) in Brazil operated from 1873 to 1965, and used the Fell mountain railway system, with equipment from the temporary Mont Cenis Pass Railway which...
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