Guide bar

For the part of a steam engine or other slider-crank linkage, see crosshead guide.

Guide bars, or guiding bars are rubber-tyred metro systems that incorporate 1,435 mm (

4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge track. They have angle irons as outside of the two roll ways.

The Busan Subway Line 4 lacks a rail track, and has I-beams installed as guide bars.

The flanges are vertical. The Sapporo Municipal Subway, that lacks a rail track as well, has no guide bars. It has a central guide rail instead. Guide bars are also used to provide guidance for guided buses.

Showing the angle iron guide bars, the I-beam roll ways and the bumper posts
View of a track from a sandpile, in the Montreal Metro near the Beaugrand Station, showing the inverted L cross-section of the guide bars (the extreme flared ends are a fabricated inverse U), precast concrete roll ways and conventional track


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