Rail
Meanings and phrases
rail
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports; railing
- short for railway
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll; track; rails; runway
rail
- complain bitterly; inveigh
- criticize severely; fulminate
- enclose with rails; rail in
- provide with rails
- separate with a railing; rail off
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- lay with rails
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- travel by rail or train; train
- spread negative information about; vilify; revile; vituperate
n.
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed; line; railway line
- A light rail line known as Metro Riel is proposed.
- The plan for the rail line was first proposed in 1879.
- A light rail line in Barranquilla is planned.
n.
- a rail through which electric current is supplied to an electric locomotive
- The power was supplied at 600 V DC to a third rail.
- All systems are third rail unless stated otherwise.
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- A light rail line known as Metro Riel is proposed.
- Together, the two light rail lines run on of route.
- A light rail line in Barranquilla is planned.
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- The Hartford Line is a planned commuter rail service.
- Metro buses and rail service run 7 days a week.
- There is no passenger rail service to Concord.
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- The Hartford Line is a planned commuter rail service.
- Most major cities have some form of commuter rail network.
- It serves the Metrolink San Bernardino Line commuter rail.
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- Greece's rail network is estimated to be at 2,548 km.
- During the postwar era, the rail network was rebuilt.
- This connected Usingen to the rail network.
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- Together, the two light rail lines run on of route.
- The town is served by four different rail lines.
- The rail lines moved to a viaduct in the 20th century.
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- It is served by all four lines of the MAX light rail system.
- The light rail system had its grand opening on December 27, 2008.
- the RTD rail system had 170 light-rail vehicles, serving of track.
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- The closest rail station is "Varenna-Esino", away.
- The Catete underground rail station is adjacent.
- It is served by the Jar rail station on the Kolsås Line.
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- This is as part of the Levenmouth rail link.
- The nearest rail link to Halstead is at Knockholt station.
- The only operational rail link into Armenia is from Georgia.
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- (See History of rail transport in Germany.)
- In the case of a rail transport, it is led to the station.
- Eindhoven is a rail transport hub.
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- All rail services are operated by Croatian Railways.
- GmbH" with the aim of providing rail services.
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- There is no passenger rail service to Concord.
- Columbus does not have passenger rail service.
- Gangauli Halt Gangauli Halt (GNGL) is a passenger rail station.
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- The route is shared between road and rail traffic.
- Chenglapattu is well connected by road and rail.
- Sheoraphuli is well connected by road and rail.
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- The route is shared between road and rail traffic.
- A road-rail bridge carries both road and rail traffic.
- The country is also the terminus of rail traffic into Ethiopia.
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- It is served by all four lines of the MAX light rail system.
- The light rail system had its grand opening on December 27, 2008.
- The city is considering designing and building a light rail system ().
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- By 1920 the SRL owned and operated 7,000 ice-cooled rail cars.
- Commandant Mougin is credited with putting guns on rail cars in 1870.
- In 2013, Parkland acquired Elbow River Marketing, with 1,400 rail cars.
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- About 14,000 people used the rail trail in 2004.
- A rail trail may still include rails, such as light rail or streetcar.
- The longest developed rail trail is currently the Katy Trail in Missouri.
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- Birkelunden is a light rail station on the Grünerløkka–Torshov Line of the Oslo Tramway.
- The Angle Lake light rail station is named for the lake, and is located to the southwest.
- Glenridge station Glenridge is a light rail station that is currently under construction.
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- The Argyll Colliery with its rail connection was nearby.
- There was also a rail connection to Zwiesel Kristallglas.
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- Until the 1970s, the rail yard area was generally industrial.
- The B&A operated a rail yard and roundhouse just north of Union Station.
- So the state proposed to reconstruct the viaduct through the rail yard site.
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- The Hartford Line is a planned commuter rail service.
- On 15 December 2019 Tampere got its own commuter rail service.
- When GTI bought the B&M, commuter rail service was in jeopardy.
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- A light rail line known as Metro Riel is proposed.
- A light rail line in Barranquilla is planned.
- The light rail line has 18 stations: two terminals and 16 intermediate stations.
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- There is only one platform and two meter gauge rail tracks.
- The 23-km link was established using existing and new rail tracks.
- Ward was the first to build rail tracks made out of Bessemer steel.
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- The heavy rail and bus and coach stations opened in 1990.
- Both the light rail and the heavy rail subway cars share the station.
- Below are the total number of passengers using heavy rail transport in Britain.
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- However, most light rail systems are now standard gauge.
- In India, commuter rail systems are present in major cities.
- Also Bergen, Stavanger and Trondheim have commuter rail systems.
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- New light rail transit routes are planned for both Jane and Eglinton.
- In 2008 a new round of rail transit network planning again proposed a loop line.
- In addition to buses, Calgary and Edmonton operate light rail transit (LRT) systems.
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- In March 2013 it was loaned to the "Spoorwegmuseum", the Dutch national rail museum.
- Casablanca is served by three main railway stations run by the national rail service, the ONCF.
- These are also connected to the national rail network by the Whyalla railway line to Port Augusta.
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- The 23-km link was established using existing and new rail tracks.
- Recently CCEA also Sanctioned Gadarwara-Indore new rail line via Budni.
- When the new rail line was opened in 1969, the old line to Peachtree Jct.
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- There is no passenger rail service to Concord.
- Columbus does not have passenger rail service.
- El Salvador has over 10,000 km of roads, and one passenger rail service.
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- The company also owns a rail bridge over the river.
- Imbaba had no rail bridge across the Nile to Cairo until 1891.
- The grade separated crossing will be on a long, high rail bridge.
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- Many local industrial sites have rail freight spur service.
- In 2016 a tram route opened in Yangon, on a former heavy rail freight route through the city streets.
- About a quarter of all U.S. rail freight travels at least a small part of its journey over a short-line railroad.
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- The line forms part of the suburban rail networks in both cities.
- Le Plessis-Robinson is not served by the Paris Métro, RER, or the suburban rail network.
- Metro systems are not present in the island, although a suburban rail network exists in Havana.
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- It is on the Thriuvananthapuram-Kollam rail route.
- FL5 (Lazio regional railways) The FL5 (until 2012 FR5) is a regional rail route.
- Today, there are six "Stadtbahn" lines running every ten minutes on every light rail route.
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- The station is served by various local and regional rail lines.
- In the US, commuter rail is sometimes referred to as regional rail.
- When completed in mid-April 2018, regional rail service is expected to return.
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- This station is among the busiest rail stations in the Bronx.
- Targets included "rail stations, barges, docks, and bridges."
- Blocks are not, however, in- stalled at rail stations or rail platforms.
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- There are no rail links with adjacent countries.
- However: The proposed international rail links are:
- It has road and rail links to both Buenos Aires and La Plata.
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- In contrast, light rail vehicles must obey stop lights in the downtown region.
- Those ships capable of carrying rail vehicles were classed under TOPS as Class 99.
- This set a land speed record for rail vehicles (electric) which stood for the next 51 years.
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- This station is on a Canadian Pacific Railway rail corridor.
- This rail corridor is largely owned by CPR, a private third party operating freight rail.
- Shaoshan railway Shaoshan railway () is a major rail corridor in Xiangtan, Hunan, China.
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- It is 28.3 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Ise-Nakagawa Station.
- Fudai Station Fudai Station is served by the Rias Line, and is located 136.9 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Sakari Station.
- Shin-Maebashi Station Shin-Maebashi Station is served by the Ryōmō Line, and is located 84.4 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Oyama Station.
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- The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road.
- These are rail and road mobile and powered by solid propellants.
- In 1950 the Deptford works made rail and road transport products, nails, rivets and washers.
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- 1897 in rail transport June 11 – The Welshampton rail crash in England kills 11.
- He also based the story on several previous rail accidents, such as the Clayton Tunnel rail crash of 1861.
- On 9 June 1865, while returning from Paris with Ellen Ternan, Dickens was involved in the Staplehurst rail crash.
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- Snowsheds were built, as were rail yards, spurs, coalsheds and watertowers.
- Its southern side is dominated by the rail yards approaching the main railway station.
- The squadron flew its last combat mission on 25 April 1945 against rail yards at Linz, Austria.
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- 70% of Inland Rail will use existing rail infrastructure.
- Weatherup during the 1960s when the local rail infrastructure was in decline.
- It will be supplemented by Oslo Package 3 that has both road and rail infrastructure in it.
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- They were the operator for the Arrow commuter rail line between San Bernardino and Redlands.
- Plans for a commuter rail line running between Beaverton and Wilsonville began as early as 1996.
- It serves the Montreal Metro's Orange Line and connects to Exo's Saint-Jérôme commuter rail line.
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- It is well-connected by road and rail transportation.
- This trade is now carried by road and rail transportation.
- Shin-Iwakuni Station on the Sanyo Shinkansen provides access to high-speed rail transportation.
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- On July 1, 1903, their rail car arrived in Calgary, Alberta.
- The most popular use was in the Budd RDC self-powered rail car.
- This rail car service crossed with other services at Yarra Glen until 1972.
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- There are some applications where Oval holes or key slots as to be made in the rail track.
- Baana is an old cargo rail track in Helsinki converted into a pedestrian and bicycle trail.
- The bridge was designed for rail track gauge though in actuality, only gauge trains ever used it.
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- The UK's longest direct rail journey runs from Aberdeen to Penzance.
- The first examination of a direct rail link between Espoo and Salo took place in 1979.
- The journey would take 15 minutes and provide the first direct rail link between the two airports.
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- There are no other international rail connections.
- Onward bus and rail connections are available at Ballina.
- Nearby troop garrison and rail connections were also expanded.
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- This rail corridor is largely owned by CPR, a private third party operating freight rail.
- This continued until the 1990s, when the mill replaced freight rail transport with trucks.
- The city is served by two major airports, and is the main freight rail hub of North America.
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- There is also discussion to establish a rail link between Yerevan and Tehran.
- The first examination of a direct rail link between Espoo and Salo took place in 1979.
- The completion of the tunnel provided a much needed rail link between Yorkshire and Lancashire.
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- The largest rail project of this period was also a disaster.
- It is also the proposed terminus on the planned Orange Blossom Express commuter rail project out of Lake County.
- The SunRail commuter rail project uses the historic Church Street Rail Depot as one of three stops in downtown Orlando.
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- Vendôme station is a commuter rail station operated by Exo in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Boca Raton station Boca Raton is a Tri-Rail commuter rail station in Boca Raton, Florida.
- The Silver Line would have a new Bellingham Square stop at the old commuter rail station location.
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- to examine the possibilities of high-speed electric rail travel.
- Mayo is well served by rail travel.
- It covers air, sea and rail travel.
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- The Ankara Central Station is a major rail hub in Turkey.
- Southern Cross station is a major rail terminal in Melbourne, Australia.
- The railway junction of Margao to the north is the closest major rail station.
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- The PRR, working with the LIRR, developed several new proposals for improved regional rail access in 1892.
- One early problem for each settler was the lack of rail access; the nearest station was in Iowa City away.
- The Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) had opened its line to Taunton on 1 July 1842, giving rail access to London.
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- Alexandria does not have Amtrak service, nor a commuter rail system.
- This is due to the availability of Tri-Rail, South Florida's commuter rail system.
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- Afyon is on the route of the planned high-speed rail line between Ankara and Izmir.
- Generally two separate two-wire circuits travel along the rail line between substations.
- They were the operator for the Arrow commuter rail line between San Bernardino and Redlands.
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- The first rail line through the city opened in around 1870.
- The remaining barrels can be started behind the corner or on the first rail.
- The first rail line to the harbour was the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railroad in 1853.
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- These are also connected to the national rail network by the Whyalla railway line to Port Augusta.
- This brought him unprecedented access to the new national rail network for delivery of his timber products.
- The introduction of these GWR services will be the first time the new station has been served by a train from the national rail network.
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- SunRail revived the station in 2014 as a commuter rail stop.
- Passenger rail service returned in 2014 when SunRail revamped the station as a commuter rail stop.
- It was likely named for Eridu in Mesopotamia and was a rail stop on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
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- Since the end of rail operations, this traffic is carried by road transport.
- At the end of World War II, rail operations were forced to stop in April 1945.
- In 2012 the market received a $10 million federal grant to improve rail operations.
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- The tunnel is the longest combination road and rail tunnel in North America.
- The concept was a single-track rail tunnel with a service tunnel, but without shuttle terminals.
- His ambition was to build a rail tunnel under the English Channel in which his trains would run.
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- Rail transport in Austria Rail transport in Austria is mainly owned by the national rail company ÖBB.
- Each of these companies is a subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), Italy's state-owned rail company.
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- The village is easily accessible by local road and rail networks.
- The line forms part of the suburban rail networks in both cities.
- With separate rail networks, one car was required for each island.
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- Kalindi Express had rail accident on 20 August 1995 when it collided with Purushottam Express near Firozabad at 02:55 am on the Delhi-Kanpur section.
- In 2016 the country suffered the worst rail accident in its history after an overloaded train derailed near the town of Eséka, killing at least 70 people.
- He was the son of Robert Aldred Marshall (1852-1884) a wealthy mining engineer from Nottinghamshire who died in the Bullhouse Bridge rail accident, and Dorothy Ann Tarr (1852–1879).
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- The new GTD is powered by a 2.0-litre turbocharged common rail diesel engine with .
- Many modern engines, particularly in on-highway applications, have common rail direct injection.
- The engine is a common rail turbodiesel V8 design, using double overhead camshafts and 32 valves.
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- The Japanese Shinkansen high speed rail system is heavily used by commuters in the Greater Tokyo Area.
- The RM8 billion project would slash rail travel time from more than 6 hours by Keretapi Tanah Melayu (Ktm) to about 90 minutes by high speed rail.
- Bandra Rajdhani Express The Bandra Rajdhani Express is a semi-high speed rail service linking the Indian cities of Bandra (Mumbai) and New Delhi.
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- The main rail way station is Cangnan Railway Station.
- Trans-Java main rail line runs across the central part of the Regency, with a stop at Karawang Station.
- The name continued in use after 1911 although the station was no longer the main rail depot for Berkeley.
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- It is well connected by rail from various towns/cities in India.
- It is also connected by rail to Mehsana, Ahmedabad and Okha by BG Line.
- Shedbal [591315] belongs to Kagwad taluk (distance 32 km) Shedbal is well connected by rail and road network.
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- There are no rail links with adjacent countries.
- There is no rail service into Fredericton.
- There are no rail services in Denshaw.
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- The deceased was transported by rail to Prince George for the funeral.
- In 2005 a total of 27.5 million metric tons of cargo were transported by rail.
- On average, 9,000 vehicles per day exit BMW plants, and 63% are transported by rail.
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- 34,281 people were employed by the rail industry in the same year.
- He began working in the rail industry in 1984, becoming a train driver.
- Part of becoming a rail hub entailed more jobs based on the rail industry.
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- This place acts as the junction and four rail routes branch from here.
- In August 2012, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) proposed four rail routes for the metro project.
- The route will provide an alternative to two existing rail routes to the Indian Ocean, at Dar es Salaam and Beira.
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- In contrast, light rail vehicles must obey stop lights in the downtown region.
- The downtown transit tunnel was closed on September 23, 2005, for a $82.7 million renovation to accommodate light rail vehicles.
- The downtown transit tunnel closed on September 23, 2005, for a two-year, $82.7 million renovation to accommodate light rail vehicles.
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- The Port Carlisle Railway Company filled in the canal and rail passenger services commenced in 1854.
- The line was then used only for a small amount of freight traffic and the rail passenger services were replaced by buses.
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- That tunnel would later see modern light rail service in the form of the Green Line light rail network.
- The light rail service is expected to be expanded by upgrading existing tram lines to light rail status.
- Link light rail service to the station began on July 18, 2009, and bus service ceased on March 23, 2019.
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- The local rail and bus services are well developed.
- The heavy rail and bus and coach stations opened in 1990.
- It is the closest town with rail and bus connections to Poloniny National Park.
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- Generally two separate two-wire circuits travel along the rail line between substations.
- Several more bridges were brought down along the rail line leading to the south toward the DMZ.
- The sling is attached with a clamping lever that can be slid along the rail to its desired position.
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- Additional railways built helped the city become an important rail junction.
- Afyon is also an important rail junction between İzmir, Konya, Ankara and Istanbul.
- Bandel is a major rail junction station of Eastern Railway zone, it is 40 km from Howrah station.
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- The Japanese Shinkansen high speed rail system is heavily used by commuters in the Greater Tokyo Area.
- The RM8 billion project would slash rail travel time from more than 6 hours by Keretapi Tanah Melayu (Ktm) to about 90 minutes by high speed rail.
- In the case of CLARA, the primary source of this income is the increased land value in areas surrounding the stations along the high speed rail line.
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- Most of the tracks are separated from other rail services.
- 113.2 km are separated from other rail services, 31.9 km are shared with regional and cargo traffic.
- It serves Amtrak's Thruway Motorcoach bus system and formerly served trains for Amtrak and other rail companies.