Talk:Zig zag (railway)

message: I removed this from the article because neither example in the image appears to be a switchback. --NE2 06:55, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wartime type switchback

message: A switchback exists in the Devil's Nose section of the Guayaquil & Quito Railroad. It is one of the few sections of the railroad still in operation. PatrickDunfordNZ (talk) 07:18, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ecuador 

message: there was a switchback along the line Saline di Volterrra - Volterra, closed in 1958. For more info see italian wikipedia page "Ferrovia Cecina Volterra"
Nowadays there's a switchback along the line Genova-Casella at Casella Deposit  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.41.152.105 (talk) 23:43, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Italy

message: After looking through quite a few railway maps in many countries I would say that the number of zig zags and switchbacks are many more than those listed hear. Only in Sweden has one zig zag and two swtichbacks existed, and Sweden is not a very hilly country. While the spiral are getting closer to almost complete it will be much harder to make this list complete, especially when including switchbacks which are quite common for getting down to ports etc, also on fairly flat islands like Gotland in Sweden. But there are far less zig zags and switchbacks then horseshoe curves which is very common. S how can this be stated in the article?  Tord Björk (talk) 23:31, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Hard to make this article complete

message: Honestly, to a non-train guy, I still have no idea what this is. The newer picture shows a slight incline, and a split, but I don't think that's a switchback. The other B&W image seems to show something steep, but hard to see what's going on. Is there an actual zig zag somewhere? Is it merely a place where the rail goes up an incline? The whole reserving station mention is effectively unexplained too. Echoniner (talk) 05:45, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not at all clear 

message: What is oldest railway zigzag, and what is the oldest one that became well known and influenced railway engineers world wide?   
Tabletop (talk) 10:48, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oldest zizag 

message: New South Wales in Australia had/has seven crossing stations that involved setting back into a siding.
* Capertee on a 1 in 40 gradient where there were several dead end sidings, more or less on the level.
* Dombarton on a 1 in 33 (Compensated) gradient, where there was two switchback sidings, with an underpass under through line.
* Cowan where there was a deadend refuge siding on the double line.  Later converted to a loop using motorize points.
* Otford and Fish River where there were two deadend refuge loops on the double line, both at one end of the station.
* between Cullerin and Gunning where there was a deadend refuge siding in the middle of a long 1 in 75 rising grade.
* Molong where a short crossing loop was replaced with a long section of a truncate branch line.
* Set back refuge sidings on double lines were/are too numerous to mention.  Tabletop (talk) 12:22, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australia 

message: The article needs a simple image at start, like
http://www.justus2.se/rwy/zigzag/index.htm, so people can grasp the idea. Jidanni (talk) 03:56, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add a simple image 

message: I'm proposing to make a separate list for the former zig-zags, e.g. in Constanța of the Danube–Black Sea Railway.
Thanks, Capras Dávid (talk) 15:17, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disappeared ones