List of turns
This page lists open loop turns on railway lines worldwide. An outdoor bend on a railway line is a roundabout loop if the route is deflected by more than 360 ° and the route crosses its own route. If the route is distracted by less than 360 °, it is a "normal" bend . If there is a roundabout in the tunnel, it is a roundabout tunnel . These are not included in this list because they can be found in the list of spiral tunnels .
Europe
Germany
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rendsburg loop | Neumünster – Flensburg railway line | Rendsburg | 1435 | 4.5 km | 42 m | adhesion | 1911-13 | Prussian state railways today: German Railroad, Inc. | Plant in the lowlands |
Switzerland
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brusio circular viaduct | St. Moritz - Tirano | Brusio | 1000 | 142.8 m | 17 m | adhesion | 1907/08 | Bernina Railway , today: Rhaetian Railway | Part of the UNESCO World Heritage Albula Railway and Bernina Railway of the Rhaetian Railway |
France
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lyon – Parays-le-Monial | Saint-Nizier-d'Azergues | 1435 | adhesion |
Greece
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vróncho (βρόγχο) | Kodza-Déré-Decauville | Between Axioupolis (Αξιούπολης) and Pigí (Πηγή) in Peonia near Polykastro | 600 | adhesion | 1917 | French 122nd Infantry Division | Reduced |
Italy
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marina S.Vito-Lanciano |
San Vito Chietino (Abruzzo) |
950 (from 1959 1435 mm) |
adhesion | 1912 | Ferrovia Adriatico Appennino, today: Ferrovia Adriatico – Sangritana SpA | Inside the loop is the former San Vito Città train station | ||||
Mandas – Arbatax |
Lanusei (Sardinia) |
950 | adhesion | 1894 | Società italiana per le Strade Ferrate Secondarie della Sardegna, today: FdS | |||||
Sassari-Palau |
Bortigiadas (Sardinia) |
950 | adhesion | 1931 | Società anonima Ferrovie Settentrionali Sarde, today: FdS | One and a half turnaround loop; Bortigiadas train station is within the loop |
Yugoslavia / Montenegro
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Antivari train | Bar - Virpazar | Kalkavija | 750 mm | adhesion | 1908 | Compagnia di Antivari ( Venice ) / Jugoslovenske Železnice | Line closure : 1959 |
United Kingdom
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dduallt roundabout viaduct | Porthmadog - Blaenau Ffestiniog |
Dduallt (Wales) |
600 | adhesion | 1965-78 | Ffestiniog Railway |
Africa
Kenya
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference | Operating mode | Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Two loops on the equator | Eldoret - Nakuru | Timoroa - Equator ( location ) | 1000 | |||||||
Mazera's spiral | Mariakani - Mombasa | Mazeras - Miritini ( location ) | 1000 |
Madagascar
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anjiro loop | Antananarivo-Moramanga | Anjiro | 1000 | 1909 | Madarail | 470 ° loop |
America
Argentina
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 loops between Meseto and Diego de Almagro | Salta-Antofagasta | 1000 | adhesion | 1874-76 |
Costa Rica
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
La Pequeña Helvecia | Light railway owned by the Hotel Los Héroes | Nuevo Arenal, Costa Rica | 600 | 54 m (bridge only) | 8 m | adhesion | 2000 | - | Used to transport hotel guests to a panoramic restaurant. The proportions of the loop bridge are based on the Brusio circular viaduct, Switzerland (see below). |
Canada
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Trinity loop | Clarenville-Trinity | Trinity, Newfoundland | 1067 | 2 km | 10.3 m | adhesion | 1911 | Newfoundland Railway | Museum railway |
Mexico
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
El Lazo | Chihuahua - Los Mochis - Topolabampo | between Pitorreal and Creel | 1435 | adhesion | 1961 | Ferromex |
United States
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Georgetown Loop | Colorado Central Railroad | Georgetown, Colorado -Silver Plume | 914 | 1.2 km | 29 m | adhesion | 1884 | Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville Railroad , subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad | Today: museum railway | |
Hiwassee loop | Etowah Tennessee -Blue Ridge Georgia | Farner Tennessee | 1435 | 1.2 km | 19 m | adhesion | 1890 | Louisville & Nashville Railroad | Double roundabout with a total length of 2450 m. Today: Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum Railway | |
Morenci Southern Railroad | Morenci Southern Railroad | Morceni , Arizona | 914 | 61 km | 425 m | adhesion | 1901 | Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona | Five loops with high trestle bridges and a 130 m long tunnel on a 61 km long route | |
The loop | Moffat route | Rollins Pass , Colorado | 1435 | 1.13 km | 26 m | adhesion | 1904 | Denver and Salt Lake Railway | In 1928 after opening of the Moffat-tunnel set | |
Tehachapi Loop | Bakersfield – Mojave railway line | Tehachapi Pass , California | 1435 | 1.17 km | 23.5 m | adhesion | 1874-76 | Southern Pacific Transportation | ||
Williams Loop | Feather River Route of the former Western Pacific | Sierra Nevada , California | 1435 | 1.4 km | 11 m | adhesion | 1906-1909 | Union Pacific Railroad |
Asia
Myanmar
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Burma Mines Railway | Wallah Gorge | 610 | 6 m | adhesion | 540 °; Tourist trains | |||||
Thazi - Taunggyi | Taung Lay Lone | 1000 | adhesion | Myanma Railways |
India
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Originally 5, today 3 circular loops | New Jalpaiguri - Darjiling | 610 | adhesion | 1879-81 | Darjeeling Himalayan Railway | Part of the UNESCO World Heritage Mountain Railways in India |
Australia and Oceania
New Zealand
designation | route | place | Track width mm |
length | Height difference |
operational art |
Construction year | Railway company | particularities | image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ongarue spiral | Ellis and Burnand Tramway (Ongarue) | Ongarue , New Zealand | 1067 | adhesion | 1922 | Ellis & Burnand | Route with partly wooden rails, out of order, today a cycle path | |||
Raurimu spiral | North Island Main Trunk Railway | Raurimu , New Zealand | 1067 | 132 m | adhesion | 1898 | NZR | Reverse loop construction with circular sweeping loop |
See also
literature
Peter Pfeiffer among others: Of spirals, loops and loops . In: Die Bündener Kulturbahn 7 (2010), pp. 20–23.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Hellwag: Report on the determination of the railway axis and the length profile of the Gotthard Railway and the processing of an approximate cost estimate . Zürcher and Furrer, 1876 ( google.co.za [accessed September 17, 2019]).
- ^ Keith Chester: The Railways of Montenegro. The Quest for a Trans-Balkan Railway. Stenvalls, Malmö 2016. ISBN 978-91-7266-194-3 , p. 54.
- ↑ Estimate based on a photograph in Pfeiffer, p. 23.
- ↑ See: Wikipedia in English
- ↑ Homepage of the museum railway
- ↑ See: Wikipedia in English
- ↑ Homepage of the Georgetown Loop Railroad
- ↑ See: Wikipedia in English
- ^ Estimate based on a photograph in Pfeiffer, p. 21.
- ↑ Namtu-Bawdwin Railtruck. November 28, 2011, accessed August 28, 2016 .
- ^ Archives of the Rhaetian Railway