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On 26 Aug, 08:40, "John Rowland"
wrote:
John Rowland wrote:

where the A13 crosses the A130

... which incidentally looks like a Magic Roundabout... could someone
confirm that before I add it to Wiki's list of Magic Roundabouts. Does it
have a name?

Yes - Sadler's Hall. (You may like to peruse www.sabre-roads.org.uk if
this is your cup of tea!) :-)

Sam

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On Aug 26, 12:22 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:

But surely even then the schebebahn runs *along* the course of the
river but cablecars tend to go across things ?

Cablecars tend to go *up* things. Are there any that are built in the
complete absence of a steep slope?



Not necessarily up things - there is a cable car transit in new York
that goes acorss something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island_Tramway

I don't like quoting wiki-piffle though but it does explain it.

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On Aug 27, 1:54 pm, D7666 wrote:
On Aug 26, 12:22 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:

But surely even then the schebebahn runs *along* the course of the
river but cablecars tend to go across things ?
Cablecars tend to go *up* things. Are there any that are built in the
complete absence of a steep slope?

Not necessarily up things - there is a cable car transit in new York
that goes acorss something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island_Tramway

I don't like quoting wiki-piffle though but it does explain it.

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Cached pages caught up, sorry, I see the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island_Tramway
was already quoted in intermediate messages that were not apparent 2
minutes ago.

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In article , Tom
Anderson writes
The cable-car at Alton Towers goes across a valley, rather than "up a hill".
Okay, good one. There, i think we have an auxiliary reason for
cable-cars, which is that they're cool, and at a theme park, that's a
good enough reason.

And, now I think of it, I've seen cable cars at theme parks that are
completely on the flat (though I couldn't say where from memory).

Alton Towers also has a number of light rail systems, and despite the
fact that they are all closed cloops with only one station, they have a
quite remarkable variety of grades and curves. And some really rather
unorthodox approaches to seating!

Actually, one of them has two stations. Many of them also have sidings,
and I can think of one where the station has an island platform with
regular service on both tracks. [Come to think of it, a lot of the
stations have separate arrival and departure platforms.]

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In article , John Rowland
writes
Number 10 appears to be moving Benfleet station to the Blinking Owl
intersection (where the A130 crosses the A127). That'll be an
interesting project.

No, they're showing it moving to where the A13 crosses the A130, an even
more interesting project.

Hmm, on second thoughts I think you're right. That makes the two yellow
squares be Hadleigh Castle and Priory Park.

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In article , John Rowland
writes
where the A13 crosses the A130

... which incidentally looks like a Magic Roundabout... could someone
confirm that before I add it to Wiki's list of Magic Roundabouts. Does it
have a name?

The technical name for these is Ring Junctions and, indeed, this is a 5
element ring junction.

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Clive D. W. Feather wrote:

In article , John Rowland
writes
where the A13 crosses the A130

... which incidentally looks like a Magic Roundabout... could someone
confirm that before I add it to Wiki's list of Magic Roundabouts. Does it
have a name?

The technical name for these is Ring Junctions and, indeed, this is a 5
element ring junction.

I've also heard the name 'olympic roundabout', although i can't find any
kind of official source for that.

tom

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