An industrial railway is a type of private railway used exclusively to serve a particular industrial site, either entirely within a mine or factory compound, or connecting the site to public freight networks.
Industrial railways were once very common, but with the rise of road transport, their numbers have greatly diminished. An example of an industrial railway would transport clay from a quarry to an interchange point with a main line railway, w...
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An industrial railway is a type of private railway used exclusively to serve a particular industrial site, either entirely within a mine or factory compound, or connecting the site to public freight networks.
Industrial railways were once very common, but with the rise of road transport, their numbers have greatly diminished. An example of an industrial railway would transport clay from a quarry to an interchange point with a main line railway, where it would be transported to its final destination. The line would be owned and operated by the quarry company, and would exist solely to serve the quarry.
Most industrial railways are short, usually being only a few kilometers long, but there are notable exceptions—examples of which include the iron ore-carrying railways in Western Australia which are hundreds of kilometers long to transport iron ore from inland to the coast. China also has long industrial railways to transport coal. In Canada there are the Quebec North Shore and Labrador...
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