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• Electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains
  ...leet of electric multiple units for suburban and middle distance passenger trains. From 1950 an expansion of the fleet was undertaken, and the new build adop The trains had Westinghouse brake equipment, and had an electric control system, activ
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• Gear train
  Gear trains consists of: ==Examples of Gear Trains==
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• Emergency brake
  In trains, control of emergency brakes is made available to the traveling [[passenger ...by the [[Regulation of Railways Act 1868]]. Section 22 stated that ''"All trains travelling a distance of more than 20 miles without stopping are to be prov
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• Finmeccanica
  ...nd in Denmark (83 diesel trains and 19-29 metro cars), Norway (36 electric trains+16 light metro vehicles), Madrid (180 heavy metro vehicles), Gothenberg (40
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• Automatic Vehicle Location
  ...s, and construction equipment, to [[public transport]] vehicles (buses and trains).
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• Macchi
  ...any ''Società Anonima Fratelli Macchi''. Now automobiles, buses, trams and trains, and wagons and wooden wheels were manufactured. During the war they had to
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• Electric car
  ...irect connection to land-based generation plants, as is common in electric trains; from chemical energy stored on the vehicle in batteries or diesel fuel; fr ...ric vehicle design is [[Personal rapid transit]], a cross between cars and trains optimised for independent travel.
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• Air brake (rail)
  ...ing system]] applied by means of [[Gas compressor|compressed air]]. Modern trains rely upon a [[fail-safe]] air brake system that is based upon a design pate ...causing the [[steam locomotive|locomotive]] to act as a brake. However, as trains got longer, heavier and faster, and started to operate in mountainous regio
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• Bologna Central Station
  ...tied with first with [[Rome Termini Station]] for train traffic (about 650 trains/day) because it is the principal railway junction of [[Italy]].
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• Regenerative braking
  ...an immediate energy saving of 15%. Savings of 17% are claimed for [[Virgin Trains]] [[British Rail Class 390 | Pendolinos]]. There is also less wear on frict ...phase [[induction motors]]. This results in a near constant speed for all trains as the motors rotate with the supply frequency both when motoring and braki
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• Electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains
  ...leet of electric multiple units for suburban and middle distance passenger trains. From 1950 an expansion of the fleet was undertaken, and the new build adop The trains had Westinghouse brake equipment, and had an electric control system, activ
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• Liguria
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• Rolling friction
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• Polizia di Stato
  ...s. Railroad Police officers patrol, in particular, long-distance and night trains, and at stations in big cities where vagrants often accumulate.
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• Vacuum brake
  In the earliest days of railways, trains were slowed or stopped by the application of manually applied brakes on the ...slation mandating the use of a continuous automatic brake on all passenger trains.
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• Electric vehicle
  ...ric vehicle design is [[Personal rapid transit]], a cross between cars and trains optimised for independent travel. ...systems the motion is provided by a rotary electric motor. However, some trains unroll their motors to drive directly against a special matched track. Thes
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• Regenerative brake
  ...d 3-phase [[induction motors]] and have thus a near constant speed for all trains as the motors rotate with the supply frequency both when giving power or br
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• Axle
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• Chanoch Nissany
  ...some experts feel that, provided a driver is still mentally committed and trains hard, Chanoch is not too old to achieve good results.{{fact}} He began his
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• Pneumatics
  *[[Air brake]]s on buses, trains, and trucks
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• Dynamic brake
  ...' Li-ion batteries have also been used to store energy for use in bringing trains to a complete halt.<ref name=rgi />
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• Regenerative brakes
  ...d 3-phase [[induction motors]] and have thus a near constant speed for all trains as the motors rotate with the supply frequency both when giving power or br
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• Brake (railway)
  * [[rail siding|siding]]s to enable heavy trains to be divided into convenient portions.
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• Imperia
  ...rastructure runs east-west along the coast. Several international express trains serve this coast while the motorway is characterised by many tunnels and vi
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• Short track motor racing
  ...mile paved||Late models, Grand American Modifieds, Super Stock, Figure 8, "trains"
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• Fuel
  ...(they create fire and heat). Coal was burnt by [[steam]] [[rail transport|trains]] to heat water into steam to move parts and provide power. Peat and wood a
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• Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
  ...in a race against co-hosts [[James May]] and [[Richard Hammond]] who took trains and buses - from the studio in [[Surrey, England]] to [[Verbier]], [[Switze
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• Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza
  ...d [[counter-terrorism]] unit, with capabilities of operations on aircraft, trains, buses, embassies, and stadium areas and established good relations with se
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• Brake fade
  ...disk is used, mounted on the axle end outside the truck frame. High speed trains (such as the [[TGV]])
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• Travel in Italy
  ...are not necessarily more comfortable. In fact, the cars used by Intercity trains are split up into distinct, six-seater compartments, which is really nice w ...s during the holidays, or before and after large political demonstrations, trains on the two lower tiers can become very, very full, to the point where it ge
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• Zagreb
  ...[[Belgrade]] etc. Also, as of 2004 you can ride on the new 160kph “tilting trains” that connect Zagreb with [[Split]] and other major cities in [[Croatia]] ...a well-developed public transport system that consists of trams, buses and trains. Trams operate 24 hours a day. However, from 4AM to 12PM there are 15 "day-
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• Milan
  *Milano Smistamento/Scalo Farini (cargo-trains) The stations for the TAV (Treni ad Alta Velocità - High Speed Trains) will be:
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• Ljubljana
  ...and [[Zagreb]], [[Belgrade]] and up to [[Thessaloniki]], as well as local trains throughout the country &mdash; no point in Slovenia is more than 3 hours aw ...rder.''' Ljubljana has very good links with [[Croatia]], there are regular trains running to [[Zagreb]] and [[Rijeka]]. Journey time is about 2.5 hours.
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• History of Sardinia
  In 1883 the first trains travelled between Cagliari and Sassari and under [[Mussolini]] the swamps a
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• Prague
  Eurocity trains connect Prague to [[Berlin]], [[Vienna]] and [[Budapest]]. It is a very com ...and Prague (station Praha - Holešovice). Reservation is necessary on these trains.
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• Italdesign
  ...y design, engineering and research into transportation solutions whatever (trains, rolling stocks, aircraft interiors, sea crafts…), articles for medium an
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• All wheel drive
  ...et up to run either or both engines), the redundancy of two separate drive trains meant that they could make it back to civilization even after major mechani
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• Sardinia
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• Air brake (road vehicle)
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• Geneva
  ...nutes from 6am-11pm, get off at the 22-Cantons stop for train station; all trains leaving Geneva '''airport train station''' stop at the main train/bus stati The '''Swiss Federal Railway''' serves Geneva's ''Gare de Cornavin'' with trains to most destinations in Switzerland at least once per hour, as well as to [
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• Four-wheel drive
  ...et up to run either or both engines), the redundancy of two separate drive trains meant that they could make it back to civilization even after major mechani
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• List of James Bond vehicles
  ==Trains==
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• Ferrari P
  ...as $200,000, but simpler ones (often with Rover engines and Renault drive-trains) may be sold for $50,000.
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• Wankel engine
  ...of the rotor housing, they have no [[poppet valve|valves or complex valve trains]]; in addition, since the rotor is geared directly to the output shaft, the
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• Hybrid vehicles
  === Trains, trucks and buses=== ...ger warm-up time and slow throttle response — this is no great problem for trains and ships which are restricted from quick acceleration by their huge mass a
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• Motor oil
  ...nal combustion engines]] in [[automobile]]s, [[boats]], [[lawn mowers]], [[trains]], [[airplanes]], etc. In engines there are contacting parts which move ag
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• Tire
  (Some trains, mostly certain types of [[metro]]s and [[people mover]]s, have rubber tire
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• Barcelona
  Several trains per day (including overnight hotel trains) from other parts of Europe (via France) are regular & reliable.
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• GoldenEye
  ...f a Russian armoured locomotive. (In the film, Trevelyan mentions that the trains were used to haul mobile [[ICBM]]s around the country).
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• Four-wheel-drive
  ...et up to run either or both engines), the redundancy of two separate drive trains meant that they could make it back to civilization even after major mechani
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• Sicily
  ...[peninsula]] by the national [[railway]] company, [[Trenitalia]], though [[trains]] are loaded onto [[ferries]] for the crossing from the mainland. Officiall
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• Vienna
  ...ailroad hub, easily accessible from other major European cities. Overnight trains arrive from places like [[Paris]], [[Bucharest]], [[Berlin]] and [[Venice]] ...üdtiroler Platz. Many trains from [[Germany]] arrive at the Westbahnhof. Trains to [[Bratislava]] (only an hour away) usually depart from the Südbahnhof,
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