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- Bethungra_Spiral abstract "The Bethungra Spiral is a rail spiral, built on the Main South railway line of New South Wales in Australia at Bethungra to ease the gradients when the line was duplicated between 1941 and 1946. Bethungra is between Cootamundra and Junee.The original line was graded at 1 in 40 for Sydney bound trains, which imposed a severe limitation on train loads, and also caused congestion as bank engines were attached. The spiral makes use of local geography in the shape of a convenient hill which the uphill line spirals around. Two short tunnels are required. The spiral increases the distance traveled by uphill trains by about 2 km. Downhill trains continue to use the original line. The ruling gradient of the new uphill line is now 1 in 66, compensated for curvature.Normally trains from the south bound for Sydney use the spiral while trains from Sydney to Melbourne use the original steep downhill line.".
- Bethungra_Spiral thumbnail BethungraSpiral.jpg?width=300.
- Bethungra_Spiral wikiPageID "1999232".
- Bethungra_Spiral wikiPageRevisionID "478598259".
- Bethungra_Spiral hasPhotoCollection Bethungra_Spiral.
- Bethungra_Spiral subject Category:Rail_infrastructure_in_New_South_Wales.
- Bethungra_Spiral point "-34.75 147.88".
- Bethungra_Spiral type SpatialThing.
- Bethungra_Spiral comment "The Bethungra Spiral is a rail spiral, built on the Main South railway line of New South Wales in Australia at Bethungra to ease the gradients when the line was duplicated between 1941 and 1946. Bethungra is between Cootamundra and Junee.The original line was graded at 1 in 40 for Sydney bound trains, which imposed a severe limitation on train loads, and also caused congestion as bank engines were attached.".
- Bethungra_Spiral label "Bethungra Spiral".
- Bethungra_Spiral sameAs m.06czr1.
- Bethungra_Spiral sameAs Q4898123.
- Bethungra_Spiral sameAs Q4898123.
- Bethungra_Spiral lat "-34.75".
- Bethungra_Spiral long "147.88".
- Bethungra_Spiral wasDerivedFrom Bethungra_Spiral?oldid=478598259.
- Bethungra_Spiral depiction BethungraSpiral.jpg.
- Bethungra_Spiral isPrimaryTopicOf Bethungra_Spiral.