Route summit
Encyclopedia
A route summit is the highest point on a transportation route crossing higher ground. The term is often used in describing railway routes, less often in road transportation. In canal
terminology, the highest pound
on a route is called the summit pound.
Canal
Canals are man-made channels for water. There are two types of canal:#Waterways: navigable transportation canals used for carrying ships and boats shipping goods and conveying people, further subdivided into two kinds:...
terminology, the highest pound
Canal pound
A canal pound, aka reach, is the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks. Canal pounds can vary in length from the non-existent, where two or more immediately adjacent locks form a lock staircase, to many miles....
on a route is called the summit pound.
Rail
- Beattock SummitBeattock SummitBeattock Summit is a high point of the West Coast Main Line railway and of the A74 motorway as they cross from Dumfries and Galloway to South Lanarkshire in south west Scotland.- Railway history :...
- Stainmore SummitStainmore SummitStainmore Summit is the highest point on the trans-Pennine South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway, also known as the Stainmore Railway in Northern England. Located between Barras and Bowes stations, the railway over the summit was the highest in England at 1370 feet until its closure in 1962...
, formerly the second highest railway in EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
until its closure in 1962 - Summit Tank - highest point Unaderra - Moss Vale
- Cullerin - highest point Sydney - Albury