After loaded outbound trains left in the evening, there would be a calm stretch around midnight for paperwork.

The gradients of such a route favours loaded trains.

Even the French railroads were, to some degree, operated similarly, with loaded trains moving forward almost nose to tail.

Horses hauled empty coal and passenger cars up to the mine, then rode the loaded train down.

The loaded trains will weigh about 20,000 t and there will also be fuel and container trains.

It had a continuous downhill gradient from the mines to the station, and loaded trains were run down this by gravity.

It got is name after a loaded train runaway here in the early days of the railroad.

From the early 1960s until the early 1970s, two loaded 100-car trains left the mine each day, seven days a week.

The line survived well, fuelling the growth of Newport docks due to its downward incline for loaded trains.

This is especially useful in mountainous areas where heavily loaded trains must descend long grades.