Single-track railway
Railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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Not to be confused with Monorail.