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 railroad rolling 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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The following are or were locations of portage railways:
Most of Canada's first railways were portage railways, designed to meet river traffic and ferry it past rapids.
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。(The article includes a map)