Portage railway

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A Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway engine, an example of a small locomotive on a narrow-gauge portage railway. Huntsville portage railway engine -- postcard.jpg
A Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway engine, an example of a small locomotive on a narrow-gauge portage railway.

A portage railway is a short and possibly isolated section of railway used to bypass a section of unnavigable river or between two water bodies which are not directly connected. [1] Cargo from waterborne vessels is unloaded, loaded onto conventional railroad rolling stock, carried to the other end of the railway, where it is unloaded and loaded onto a second waterborne vessel. A portage railway is the opposite of a train ferry.

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Examples

The following are or were locations of portage railways:

Australia

Brazil

Canada

Central African Republic

China

Congo-Brazzaville

Congo-Kinshasa

England

Greece

Laos

Panama

Russia

United States

Czechia

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References

  1. Derek Hayes (2006). "Historical Atlas of Canada: Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps". Douglas & McIntyre. p. 210. ISBN   9781553650775 . Retrieved 2013-03-23. Most of Canada's first railways were portage railways, designed to meet river traffic and ferry it past rapids.
  2. 三峡翻坝铁路前期工作启动 建成实现水铁联运 [Dam in Three Gorges railway preliminary work completed to start the implementation of water and railway transport] (in Chinese). 2012-10-12. Archived from the original on 2015-09-04. Retrieved 2016-04-20. 据透露,已经于去年底开工建设的紫云地方铁路,预计明年建成通车。紫云地方铁路接轨于国家铁路焦柳线枝江站,连接猇亭、白洋、姚家港三大开发区以及云池、白洋、田家河、姚家港四大港口,线路总长36.5公里,建成后年货运能力将达到1500万吨。 (The article includes a map)
  3. "Прохождение судами Енисейского пароходства судоподъемника Красноярской ГЭС - Фотогалерея". (Boats of the Yenisei Shipping Company traveling via the ship lift of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Station: Photo gallery) (in Russian)
  4. From River to River - photo gallery, 2007