![]() ‘Therefore if Cross-rail precedes electrification, then diesel units would be used for cross-city services which would easily negotiate the gradients and angles.’.‘The lower 150m section has a gentle gradient of 12 degrees providing an ample and safe area to test out those first turns.’.‘On the upper part of the mountain the gradient was so steep that climbers had to lean forward to prevent overbalancing.’.‘I hurtle past people carrying bags of shopping going uphill the gradient is so steep I fear they will graze their noses on the tarmac.’.‘A hundred hand-cut granite steps were laid to negotiate the steep gradient leading up from the riverbank, to a walk back through the top of the bluebell wood.’.‘The Keoghs, realising that their present house, built as it is on a steep gradient, is most unsuitable for a wheelchair user, decided to apply for the transfer.’.‘As we left Girvan, with the sun shining, the wind blowing in its usual and helpful easterly direction, we climbed away from the town on a good open track which, despite the steep gradient, added to a sense of keen anticipation.’.‘Their gradients are not steep enough to make a driver slow down any more than he would anyway at a road junction.’.‘Its high mobility enables it to climb steep gradients and sizeable steps.’.‘Conditions were heinous, the largely off-trail section proving unrideable due to dense forest, boggy peat, streams, briars, bushes and steep gradients.’.‘A fountain and water channel will see water flowing in spirals down the steep gradient of the street.’.‘A clanking, wheezing locomotive went past the cabin climbing the steep gradient.’.‘To go over the Andes by rail entailed very steep gradients indeed, and when I come to write about rack railways I will come back to them.’.‘Narrow-gauge locomotives were relatively small, and steep gradients and sharp curves reduced train speeds.’.‘The gradient is steep to begin with as the road goes through sharp bends.’.‘Dangerous inclines, gradients and sharp curves add to the mess.’.‘The rise in altitude from 6,000 ft to double that was reached via heartstoppingly steep gradients and hairpin bends.’.‘This is a proper offroad vehicle - it climbed steep gradients with ease, using the tiptronic manual gear selector, and descended safely without the need to touch the pedals.’.‘The drive up the two lane mountain road with excellent gradients is 13 km.’.‘For traffic driving east, the road descends down a gradient of 0.023 through a wooded area with trees overhanging the road on both sides.’.‘Road sections which included steep gradients, major drainage structures and thick chip seal surface layers were normally excluded.’.‘By following the ridge of the city's hills, it provides tolerable gradients and avoids steep inclines, which proliferate in the city's side streets.’.
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