Height
The height of overhead wiring can create hazards at level crossings, where it may be struck by road vehicles. Warning signs are placed on electrified level crossing approaches, advising motorists of the maximum safe height permitted over the particular crossing.
The wiring in most countries is too low to allow double stack container trains. The Channel Tunnel has an extended height overhead line to accommodate double-height car and truck transporters. India is proposing a network of freight-only lines that would almost certainly be electrified with extra height wiring and pantographs.
Read more about this topic: Overhead Line, Overhead Catenary
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... With a planned height of 1,010 feet (308 m), One Bayfront Plaza will likely become the tallest building in Miami upon completion ... At its original height of 1,180 feet, which exceeded FAA height restrictions and was never approved, it would have been one of the tallest buildings in the United States, and its second proposed height of 1,049 feet ... The height was reduced to its current 1,010 ft (308 m) due to height restrictions in the new Miami 21 zoning laws ...
... have two forms lining ("in-line" or "full-height") figures as seen on a typewriter and taught in North America, and old-style figures, in which numerals 0, 1 ... led to confusion, as the old-style numeral one can resemble a capital "I" reduced to x-height ...
... The height of the spire is projected to reach 506 meters, which will make the Federation Complex the tallest building in Europe ...
... Human height is one of the areas of study within anthropometry ... While height variations within a population are largely genetic, height variations between populations are mostly environmental ... The United Nations uses height (among other statistics) to monitor changes in the nutrition of developing nations ...
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