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What is meant by trunk routes?
A trunk road, trunk highway, or strategic road is a major road, usually connecting two or more cities, ports, airports and other places, which is the recommended route for long-distance and freight traffic. Many trunk roads have segregated lanes in a dual carriageway, or are of motorway standard.
What is route in railway?
Rail network divided by area of country. A train route is a relation that describes the route of a train (usually, in regular passenger service). Its members include the stations/stops/platforms served by the train (where it stops to pick up or drop off passengers) as well as the railways on which the train travels.
What is the route kilometrage of Indian Railways?
As of 31 March 2020, IR network spans 126,366 km (78,520 mi) of track length, while the route length is 67,956 km (42,226 mi).
What are the classification of railways?
Southern Railways (S.R.) Central Railways (C.R.) Western Railways (W.R.) North Eastern Frontier Railways (N.F.R.) South Central Railways (S.C.R.)
Why are highways called trunks?
Historically, the phrase “trunk road” in an Irish context referred to the main routes in the first Irish road numbering system, which were known as Trunk Roads and given the prefix letter of “T”.
Is an A road a trunk road?
‘A’ Roads: These can be trunk or principal roads. They are often described as the ‘main’ roads and tend to have heavy traffic flows though generally not as high as motorways. Trunk roads (designated by the Trunk roads Acts 1936 and 1946): Most motorways and many of the long distance rural ‘A’ roads are trunk roads.
What is shunt signal in railway?
Shunting signals and indicators. Shunt signals control shunting movements. A shunt signal may be placed on its own post or on the same post as a stop signal. If a calling-on signal is also placed on the same post, the shunt signal appears below the calling-on signal.
What is route km?
Route Kilometre : The distance between two points on the Railway irrespective of the number of lines connecting them, whether single line, double line etc. Track Kilometre : The length of all running tracks and tracks including tracks in sidings, yards and crossings.
What is B route in Indian Railways?
Group ‘B’ – Speeds upto 130 k.m./hour: (i) Allahabad-Katni-Jabalpur- Itarsi- Bhusaval. (ii) Kalyan – Pune – Daund – Wadi – Secunderabad Kazipet. (iii) Kharagpur- Waltair- Vijayawada. (iv) Wadi-Raichur-Arakkonam-Madras Central.
What is jumbo rake?
A ‘jumbo’ rake is usually a BCX/BOY/etc. rake of up to 3500-3750 tonnes, which is much larger than the old ‘CG’ rakes which used to be limited to 1800 tonnes or so. All air-braked rakes of BCN/BCNA wagons up to 4500-4750 tonnes are known as ‘super-jumbo’ rakes. See the section on freight.