A portage railway is a short and possibly isolated section of railway used to bypass a section of unnavigable river or between two water bodies which are not directly connected.[1]
Cargo from waterborne vessels is unloaded, loaded onto conventional railroadrolling stock, carried to the other end of the railway, where it is unloaded and loaded onto a second waterborne vessel.
A portage railway is the opposite of a train ferry.
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Examples
The following are or were locations of portage railways:
Australia
Victor Harbor to Goolwa – originally horse drawn – mouth of Murray River often silted up or was useless due to low water levels.
the first railway in Queensland started at the inland river port of Ipswich rather than the capital of Brisbane to save money. Twenty years later, the line was extended to Brisbane.
^三峡翻坝铁路前期工作启动 建成实现水铁联运 [Dam in Three Gorges railway preliminary work completed to start the implementation of water and railway transport] (in Chinese). 2012-10-12. Archived from the original on 2015-09-04. Retrieved 2016-04-20. 据透露，已经于去年底开工建设的紫云地方铁路,预计明年建成通车。紫云地方铁路接轨于国家铁路焦柳线枝江站，连接猇亭、白洋、姚家港三大开发区以及云池、白洋、田家河、姚家港四大港口，线路总长36.5公里，建成后年货运能力将达到1500万吨。
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