** UK — voltage remains at 25 kV AC — voltage change 750 V DC third rail ( The Southern Region ).

A third line is planned to connect Phnom Penh with Vietnam, the last missing link of the planned rail corridor between Singapore and the city of Kunming, China.

Tramlink runs on a mixture of street track shared with other traffic, dedicated track in public roads, and off-street track consisting of new rights-of-way, former railway lines, and one section of alignment, though not track, shared with a third rail electrified Network Rail line.

The system arose after a prolonged political battle between religious and secular political parties, and is considered a political third rail even today.

: APS third rail: The ground-level power supply system known as APS or Alimentation par le sol uses a third rail placed between the running rails, divided electrically into eight-metre segments with three metre neutral sections between.

The electric locomotive is supplied externally with electric power, either through an overhead pickup or through a third rail.

* Bids are invited for construction of a rail network in three phases: The first phase would be a double-track electrified coastal route from Masqat to Suhar ; the second phase would be an extension from Masqat to Daq ; the third phase an extension from Suhar to Al-Ayn ( in UAE ).

The Sengkang LRT Line, a 10. 7 km light rail line was opened in 2003 ; a third LRT line, Punggol LRT Line, was opened in 2005 Jan with the East Loop of the system serving the residences in Punggol.

The driver, however, disembarks through the wrong doors and falls across the " third rail ", but he is not electrocuted because he was such a " poor conductor ".

Most trams today use electrical power, usually fed by a pantograph ; in some cases by a sliding shoe on a third rail or trolley pole.

Both the Kawasaki trains and Bombardier's ART have the active part of the motor in the cars and use overhead wires ( Japanese Subways ) or a third rail ( ART ) to transfer power to the train.

The second line will run east-west from Le Port to the Nice Côte d ' Azur Airport, extending to Cagnes-sur-Mer, while the third line will provide a connection to the future TGV Nice Saint-Augustin Lingostière rail station.

For applications requiring direct current, such as third rail power systems, alternating current is distributed to a substation, which utilizes a rectifier to convert the power to direct current.

With their large size, large turning radius, and often an electrified third rail, RRT vehicles cannot operate in the street.

Another cable ( making nine in all ) connected the current collectors at both ends in order to eliminate the power loss that occurs at interruptions in the third rail at points and crossings where the conductor rail is gapped.

They use 25 kV AC overhead power north of Farringdon and 750 V DC third rail to the south.

On 29 May 1854 the Midland Railway had laid a third rail along their tracks from Bristol to Gloucester to give a mixed gauge so that they could operate standard gauge passenger trains while broad gauge goods trains could still run to collieries north of Bristol.

When introduction was attempted on 1 July 1905 a Metropolitan train overturned the third rail on the District Railway ; following this the Metropolitan trains were modified before running again on the District lines and full electric service started on 24 September.

Therefore it is not considered advisable to use a third rail to allow dual-gauge operation on mainline sections of track, because of the danger of material lodging between the two rails.

There has been argument for well over a century about the practicability of third rail operation, and numerous devices have been promoted to overcome the problem, especially at turnouts, including " Brennan Switch ".

M2, M4, M6 and M8 EMUs which operate on the New Haven Line of Metro-North Railroad, are “ multi-system ” meaning they can draw power from either the third rail or from overhead lines.

and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.

But Papa's death had further complicated the financing of Tom's hoped-for third year, and for the weeks following it Tom did not know whether his return to Harvard could be arranged.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

He climbed, as quickly as he could urge his body, up the two unbroken flights to the third floor, pulling himself along on a delicate balustrade, all that remained of the building's beauty.

His famous criticism of brother Henry's `` third style '' is surely as subtly, even elegantly, worded an analysis of the latter's intricate air castles as Henry himself could ever have produced.

But on Cemetery Hill, the I Corps could muster only a third of its men as effective for duty and the corps was essentially destroyed as a combat force for the rest of the battle ; it would be decommissioned in March 1864, its surviving units combined into other corps.

In his third theological textbook, Regulae Caelestis Iuris, he presents a set of what seems to be theological rules ; this was typical of the followers of Gilbert of Poitiers, of which Alan could be associated.

A third mode was entered with a special boot floppy which turned the Aster into a Videotex terminal with a 40x25 display and a Videotex character set, The software used the built in RS232 interface of the Aster to control a modem through which it could contact a Prestel service provider.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

The saqalibah represented a third ethnic group that could neutralize the endless strife between his subjects of Muslim Arab heritage, and those of Muslim Berber heritage.

The second item was PC with a sound card and a software program called Banpaia, and the third item was a phone that could easily be used for cloning, such as the Oki 900.

The third event was a concerted effort to transform some of the dance crazes into dances which could be taught to a wider dance public in the US and Europe.

In baseball's earlier decades, a runner on second base could " steal " first base, perhaps with the intention of drawing a throw that might allow a runner on third to score ( a tactic famously employed by Germany Schaefer ).

The pivoting was controlled by levers attached to the third ( centre ) axle, which could slide sideways.

Patrons could borrow and return books on the third Monday of every third month.

However, since both the computer and the drive could easily be reprogrammed, third parties quickly wrote more efficient firmware that would speed up drive operations drastically.

Following the recording sessions with Tim, Neil began writing and recording a third Crowded House album with Hester and Seymour, but these tracks were rejected by the record company, so Neil asked Tim if Crowded House could use the Finn songs.

Among the early Germans a freedman remained under the taint of ancestral servitude until the third generation, i. e., until he could show four free-born ancestors.

Being in a coalition allows males to dominate a third individual when they could not by themselves, as politically apt chimps can exert power over aggressive interactions regardless of their rank.

During the third century crisis ( 235 – 285 ), the government resorted to requisition rather than payment in debased coinage, since it could never be sure of the value of money.

But there could be a third variable ( Z ) that influences ( Y ), and X might not be the true cause at all.

In his lifetime, Ninmyō could not have anticipated that his third son, Prince Tokiyasu, would eventually ascend the throne in 884 as Emperor Kōkō.

On the last occasion that the Estates-General had met, in 1614, each estate held one vote, and any two could override the third.

" Antioch, a coastal city in northern Syria and the third largest in the Roman world, is often mentioned as this later home of the Matthean community, but it could have been any large city in the eastern Mediterranean with large Jewish and Christian populations, and recent research points towards a location near Galilee or Judea.