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unusual facts about third rail



Road-powered electric vehicle

(4) Where an external electric supply is provided, this is typically with overhead conductors or above-ground rails or (rarely) sub-surface electro-magnets.

Stockholm metro

The Stockholm metro runs electrically using a third rail with a nominal operating voltage of 650 V DC on line 13,14, 17, 18 and 19,and 750 V DC on the line 10 and 11.

Velim railway test circuit

In addition 1.5-kilometre length can be equipped for third rail supply for metro operators.


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Cos Cob Power Station

The "New Haven" chose A.C. electrification as proposed by Baldwin-Westinghouse, with locomotives which could operate on the third-rail D.C. system within city limits, and the A.C. system on the main line.

Daduhe Road Station

The third rail is presently being used to switch sides for trains heading to Jinshajiang Road, as that station is the current terminus, and then return towards Jinyun Road using those tracks.

Golden Gate Railroad Museum

In the 2003 season of the television show MythBusters, the episode "Peeing on the Third Rail" was filmed at this location.

Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority

From Scranton Northeast to the city of Carbondale on lines of the former Delaware and Hudson Railway's Pennsylvania Branch, from Scranton Southeast into Monroe County on lines of the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, towards New Jersey and the New York City market, and from Scranton Southwest to Montage Mountain, Moosic on lines of the former Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad third-rail interurban streetcar line.

Spital railway station

The station is located on the Wirral Line operated by Merseyrail and there are frequent third rail electric train services to Liverpool, Chester and Ellesmere Port.

Tondu

In July 1863 Brogdens obtained an Act of Parliament to build a new standard gauge railway in the Ogmore Valley and to lay a third rail on the existing broad gauge Lynfi Railway to Porthcawl.

Western Line, Tasmania

In March 1876, the Tasmanian Main Line Railway Company had completed the construction of a 1,067 mm gauge line from Hobart to Evandale and entered into negotiation with the Government for the construction of a third rail over the broad gauge tracks of the Launceston and Western Railway between Evandale Junction and Launceston.