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Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / overhead line inspection | | German term or phrase: Gleiskilometrierung | This is taken from a fact sheet on an overhead line inspection system, this particular section on video surveying:
"Die einzelnen Bilder des Videos sind exakt mit der Gleiskilometrierung verknüpft."
I do know what the Gleiskilometrierung is, it's the kilometre markers along the track. But how do I best translate this? I've read the corresponding forum entries on Kilometrierung, particularly Johannes Gleim's "line mileage" (UIC terminology), but have also found "track chainage" used elsewhere (e.g. http://www.laser-rail.co.uk/en/Case-Studies/Docklands-Light-... and http://www.severn-partnership.co.uk/sector_services_signal_s... As I'm not a rail specialist (I'm learning fast!), I'd like to know whether these terms are interchangeable, or whether I'm actually just assuming that track chainage is the same as Gleiskilometrierung when it's actually something completely different. You see, track chainage would fit better into my translation as it currently stands... |
| Jane LutherKudoZ activityQuestions: 36 (none open) Answers: 129
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| | route distance; track distance. | Explanation:
Personally, I'd avoid both miles and kilometres. As the video shots your machine takes are precisely interfaced with the location of any fault which may be found, I think you have to use distance here as trackside markings are either every 100 metres or (in the UK, at least) every 1/4 mile. And if the manufacturer is trying to sell into the UK market, he can't very well use kilometres in any event, can he?
The "chain" referred to is 22 yards, thus 1/80th. of a mile. The reason this is used in the UK is that it's more precise than 100 metres, and when lengthmen used to have to walk their "lenth of track" inspecting it, it was easier to find a reported fault when it was quoted to an accuracy of 22 yards. The Working TimeTable always showed route distances in this way; whether it still does, I'm not sure. I haven't worked with one for almost 20 years now. |
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 David Moore
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| Grading comment Thanks very much. Your comments were very useful, and you're quite right, of course, as to the precision of the surveying equipment. Track distance therefore made perfect sense in the context and I used it throughout the text.
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 route distance; track distance.
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Personally, I'd avoid both miles and kilometres. As the video shots your machine takes are precisely interfaced with the location of any fault which may be found, I think you have to use distance here as trackside markings are either every 100 metres or (in the UK, at least) every 1/4 mile. And if the manufacturer is trying to sell into the UK market, he can't very well use kilometres in any event, can he?
The "chain" referred to is 22 yards, thus 1/80th. of a mile. The reason this is used in the UK is that it's more precise than 100 metres, and when lengthmen used to have to walk their "lenth of track" inspecting it, it was easier to find a reported fault when it was quoted to an accuracy of 22 yards. The Working TimeTable always showed route distances in this way; whether it still does, I'm not sure. I haven't worked with one for almost 20 years now.
| David Moore
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| | Grading comment | Thanks very much. Your comments were very useful, and you're quite right, of course, as to the precision of the surveying equipment. Track distance therefore made perfect sense in the context and I used it throughout the text. |
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