Sentences with phrase «narrow gauge track»

The original narrow gauge track used wooden sleepers, which were constantly attacked by termites.

For the entire journey the train runs on a narrow gauge track, only a metre wide.

The narrow gauge track makes the train carriages rock violently from side to side when at normal speed, and with no security rails on either side of the bridge, I am sure it wouldn't make it across if it didn't slow down.

The train system might look okay on paper and it is fun for an hour or two, but the novelty of the narrow gauge tracks and decrepit rolling stock wears off quickly so... overland travel in Burma can be slow and arduous.

Not exact matches

Amaechi said that government had commenced rehabilitation of the narrow gauge to reduce the pressure of cargoes on the road, adding that the challenges on the standard gauge was the track.

Relics and artifacts found in abandoned mine workings may include equipment such as pumps, cranes, drills, narrow gauge railway tracks, wagons and locomotives.

The terrain here is ideally suited to a narrow - gauge railway and the winding track connects the small towns and villages of the Harz region, and is used by commuters, shoppers and school children as well as by tourists.

The last survivor of the trench railways from the battlefields of World War I, the Froissy Dompierre Light Railway runs on narrow - gauge tracks from Froissy to Dompierre - Becquincourt in the Somme department.

During the latter part of the 1960s the Durango - Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad was registered as a National Historic Landmark but in 1969 the Denver and Rio Grande Western abandoned the tracks south of Durango isolating the line and leaving the future of the line in question once again.

Part of the journey is the narrow gauge railway track between Brig and Andermatt / Disentis.

This early American narrow gauge railroad from a bygone era are the same railway tracks taken by old west miners, cowboys and early settlers dating back to the 1800's.