Portage railway
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
A portage railway is a short, and possibly isolated, section of railway used to bypass an unnavigable section of a river or to connect two bodies of water which are not directly linked.[1] Cargo from waterborne vessels is unloaded, transferred onto conventional railroad rolling stock, and transported to the other end of the railway, where it is then unloaded and loaded onto another waterborne vessel. A portage railway is essentially the opposite of a train ferry.
![[icon]](/index.php/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (May 2008) |
Examples
[edit | edit source]The following are or were locations of portage railways:
Australia
[edit | edit source]- Victor Harbor to Goolwa – originally horse drawn – mouth of Murray River often silted up or was useless due to low water levels.
- the first railway in Queensland started at the inland river port of Ipswich rather than the capital of Brisbane to save money. Twenty years later, the line was extended to Brisbane.
- several rail lines terminated at river ports, such as Robertson, Echuca, Bourke, Morgan, Brewarrina
Brazil
[edit | edit source]- Madeira-Mamoré Railroad (365 km; 227 mi) along the huge rapids of upper Madeira
Canada
[edit | edit source]Central African Republic
[edit | edit source]China
[edit | edit source]- The Three Gorges Portage Railways, on each side of the Yangtze River in the Three Gorges Dam area (see Three Gorges Dam#Portage railways). Preliminary work on this project started in 2012.[2]
Japan
[edit | edit source]- The Keage Incline Railway, 582 meters in length, once connected Lake Biwa Canal to the Nanzenji Boat Reservoir in the Kyoto Kamo River[3][4]
Congo-Brazzaville
[edit | edit source]Congo-Kinshasa
[edit | edit source]England
[edit | edit source]- Cromford and High Peak Railway connected Cromford Canal to the Peak Forest Canal
Greece
[edit | edit source]- Diolkos near Corinth Canal
Laos
[edit | edit source]Panama
[edit | edit source]Russia
[edit | edit source]United States
[edit | edit source]- Allegheny Portage Railroad
- Morris Canal
- New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Rail Road
- Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad
Czechia
[edit | edit source]- Narrow gauge line on Kamýk Dam used for transport of canoes and flatboats over the dam.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (The article includes a map)
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Boats of the Yenisei Shipping Company traveling via the ship lift of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Station: Photo gallery) (in Russian)
- ^ From River to River - photo gallery, 2007