Single-track railway

A Class 158 DMU on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, a primarily single-track railway in Scotland
A train on the Long Island Rail Road's single-tracked Central Branch
A train on the Jinhua–Wenzhou Railway, a single-track railway in Southern Zhejiang Province, China
Single track on the Stony Point Line in the Australian state of Victoria

A single-track railway is a railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track. Single track is usually found on lesser-used rail lines, often branch lines, where the level of traffic is not high enough to justify the cost of constructing and maintaining a second track.


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