Northwards from Rowsley, the line climbed over 600 feet in fourteen miles to its summit at banking engines and to split trains as necessary.
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The LNWR had offered the use of the line but, with its climb through banking engines, the longest such section on the British railway system.
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Some ?mile ( 1?km ) west of the station is St Bedes Junction, the site of Newcastle passenger train crashed into a banking engine.
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Rails continued to break under the heavy banking engines and the stationary engine was brought out of retirement, and Newall s untwisted cable substituted for the earlier hemp rope.
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Trains would descend from Toowoomba to assist in hauling loads and from the early 1900s banking engines were used to help push trains up the Range from Murphy's Creek.
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Even later, when vacuum braking had been introduced, most trains would only be partly fitted and, often, a banking engine would have to lead the train to provide extra braking
17.
Banking engines, after assisting'Up'trains to climb the hill, stop and reverse over the trailing crossover at the station to attain the Down line for the run back to Wellsworth.
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By utilisation of the permitted axial load of 16, 5t a locomotive was developed, which alone could move freighttrains uphill even on the steep line in the croatian karst without a banking engine.
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Thus the crew of the banking engine at the rear of Driver Axon's train remained unaware of the problems at the front and unfortunately kept pushing Driver Axon's train towards Dove Holes summit.
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The climb through the tunnel to Cowlairs is at 1 in 42 and until 1909 trains were hauled up on a rope operated by a stationary engine, although experiments were carried out using banking engines in 1844 48.
