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This chapter describes railway line configurations (i.e. single-track, double-track, triple-track and quadruple-track lines) and railway station types (e.g. way-side stations, junctions, terminals and seaport stations). After briefly introducing the main technical characteristics in terms of transportation performance, the fundamental design principles for railway lines and stations are presented, together with a few layouts.
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The ISO (International Organization for Standardisation) container (often called shipping or freight container) is a metal box, 8 feet (244 cm) wide, 8 feet and 6 inches (259 cm) high. The standard lengths are 20 or 40 feet (610 and 1220 cm, respectively). The container capacity is often expressed in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU, or sometimes teu). A twenty-foot equivalent unit is the measure of the containerised cargo capacity equal to a standard 20-foot (6.1 m) long container.
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Guerrieri, M. (2023). Railway Lines and Stations. In: Fundamentals of Railway Design. Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24030-0_8
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