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What is a flangeway?

What is a flangeway? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (rail transport, historical) An early type of railway that used flanged rails rather than flanged wheels.
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While crossing over the Penang Lane single-track level crossing, the person in the leading wheelchair became immobilized just beside the south rail, when one of the front wheels fell into the field side of the flangeway.
The Association of American Railroads has requested the U. S. Transportation Research Board to test and develop a flangeway filler which will accommodate higher train speeds.
Available at most hobby shops, this tool allows you to check track gauge, flangeway spacing and width, and many other dimensions.
Since flangeway filler technology does not address anything but low-speed, industrial track situations, the issue of narrow wheels falling into flangeways on main track crossings may continue.

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