When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Joint_Staff...

    The UNJSPF was established by United Nations General Assembly resolution 248 (III) (passed on 7 December 1948) which came into effect on 23 January 1949. As of 31 December 2023, it had 149.848 participants from 25 member organizations and served 86,013 retirees and beneficiaries, residing in more than 190 countries.

  3. UN pension - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_pension

    UN pension is a retirement benefit provided to people who have worked directly for the United Nations organization. It is provided through the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) under Article 28 [1] of the Regulations, Rules and Pension Adjustment System of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF Rules).

  4. Double-track railway - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-track_railway

    Triple track could be a compromise between double-track and quad-track; such a system was proposed south of Stockholm Central Station, but was cancelled in favor of Citybanan. In Melbourne and Brisbane several double track lines have a third track signalled in both directions, so that two tracks are available in the peak direction during rush ...

  5. Organisation for Co‑operation between Railways - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_for_Co...

    In contrast to Western European countries, railway links between OSShD member countries are characterized by long routes (8000 to 10,000 km), different and severe climatic zones, and two track gauge changes on a single route (1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) and 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) ). Focusing on collective resolution of railway ...

  6. Token (railway signalling) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_(railway_signalling)

    The first two of these are partly or totally double-track sections, but the staffs in this case were applicable to both tracks, the effect being that only one of the tracks could be used at a time. The token system is still regularly used on the present-day State Railway of Thailand system.

  7. Two track - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_track

    Two track may refer to: Trail; Double track in rail transport; A method of multitrack recording using only two audio channels This page was last edited on ...

  8. Gauntlet track - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauntlet_track

    The San Francisco cable car system features three areas with gauntlet tracks [15] where the outer rail of the inner track is shared as the inner rail of the outer track for two sections of tracks: on Washington Street [16] between Mason Street and Powell Street, on Powell Street [17] (north of Washington Street) onto Jackson Street to the point ...

  9. Transfer table - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_table

    A two track transfer table used as a switch at Mount Washington Cog Railway. Systems like the Locher rack system do not allow normal switches and transfer tables or rotary switches are used instead, as on the Pilatus Railway. A transfer table contains two tracks with different configurations.