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Longest trains
Longest trains
This is a list of the longest trains in the world. The length of a train may be measured in number of wagons (for bulk loads such as coal and iron ore) or in metres for general freight. • 690m Switzerland - train that derailed at Lausanne. • 400 m - New South Wales steam era, where lengths also limited by practical length of crossing loops mechanically operated from signal boxes. • train lengths and loads on electrified railways, especially 3000 V DC and 1500 V DC, are limited by traction power considerations.
Bulk cargo
• Australia • Fortescue Metals Group—32,320 t—iron ore • Queensland Railways—coal • Rio Tinto—29,500 tonnes of iron ore—2.4 km, three locomotives • BHP Billiton Iron ore—up to 312 cars, 37,440 tonnes, over 3 km long, six or seven locomotives including intermediate remote units. • Brazil • Carajás Railway - 2.1 km, 23,000 t, plans to be extended[1] - 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) • Mauritania—3 km [2] - iron ore from Zouérat • South Africa
Special test runs
• BHP Run on 21 June 2001, comprising 682 wagons and hauled by eight dieselelectric locomotives with a total length of 7.353 km on the 275 km iron ore railway to Port Hedland in Western Australia [6] Sishen - Saldanha Run on 26-27 August 1989, comprising 660 railcars, 7.3 km (4.5 miles) long and weighing 69,393 tons, excluding the 16 50 kV AC electric locomotives. [2][3].
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General cargo
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• Distributed power - Where operational considerations or economics require it, United States trains can be made longer if intermediate Canada locomotives are inserted in the train and 1800 m—Australia—Parkes—Perth—Adelaide—Darwin remotely controlled from the leading - (limited by 1800m crossing loops) locomotive. • proposed 2009 Parkes - Cootamundra • Heaviest trains 1500 m—Australia—Adelaide—Melbourne—Sydney—Brisbane • Ideal gauge - (limited by 1500m crossing loops) • Extreme trains on the History Channel 1500 m—India proposed for dedicated 2009 freight lines. 1000m - Holland-Germany - trial trains of this length [3] 1000 m - Germany, trials, up from 750m [1] chapter 7 and 8 and 850m between Hamburg and [2] Railways Africa—MAURITANIA’S LONG Ringsted in Denmark. [4] (mostly double TRAINS track, short single track sections. Crossing [3] Modern Railways Jan 2009, p71 between 1000 m trains must be avoided [4] IRJ December 2008 on single track) [5] http://www.railpage.com.au/f800 m - RVR in East Africa (Kenyat11344228.htm Uganda) to introduce longer trains [5] [6] [1] RailwaysAfrica
References
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