Design of railway lines has been primarily in the domain of civil engineering. Indeed, the railway track is a structure that is built in a natural environment and thus the construction of it presents many civil engineering issues. However, the railway track is basically only the framework enabling the key function of railways; the transport of goods and people. The latter is carried out by trains, a domain of mechanical engineers. To design effective and efficient railway connections, collaboration between the two parties is necessary. This thesis presents an innovative construction of a railway line in steep inclination that enables travel of trains due to generation of an additional tractive force provided by the pulling mechanism installed on steep part of the track. This thesis firstly investigates and decomposes the working process of the pulling mechanism which enables identification of the subsystems and their structure. Furthermore, limitations and consequence of the input of the additional tractive force on the train are analysed. Finally, a detailed motion analysis of pushing and retention of the train through the pulling mechanism is conducted. Aside analysing the path, velocity and acceleration of the movement, required tractive forces and the necessary power of the pulling mechanisms drive are discussed.
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