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overhead contact line
Single or rarely double wire used to transmit electrical energy to trains, trams, or trolleybuses, hanging above the route of the vehicle
Also known as transport overhead line · electric contact network · power overhead line · catenary line · OLE · OHLE
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Overview
All data
35 statements · 14% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- OpenStreetMap tag
- electrified=contact_line applies to part: railway, tram system
- trolley_wire=yes applies to part: trolleybus system
On other databases
18 identifiers linking overhead contact line across the web's reference databases
- BNCF Thesaurus ID44942
- Freebase ID/m/017zqt
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDcatenaria-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0089475
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDkontaktledning
- IEV number601-03-04
- J9U entity ID987007538296605171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)trolley-wire
- Lex IDkøreledning
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85041976
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)2775861652
- OpenAlex IDC2775861652
- OpenStreetMap Wiki item IDQ6997
- Quora topic IDOverhead-Line-Equipment
- UNSPSC code26121510
- Vikidia article IDfr:Caténaire
- WikiKids IDBovenleiding
- Yale LUX IDconcept/13469333-c4ad-4e92-a79d-e9889669d227