Station. Lewu Curve. Handulu-lianghekou Curve. Liudu River Curve. Liugou Curve. Xinjiang Neijiang–Kunming Railway Yiliang Curve. Guiyang–Guangxi Railway Layi Curve. Yunnan Banmaoqing, on Nanning–Kunming Railway in China, a double horseshoe inside Yiliang County, located east of Yiliang Town, at Guizhou–Kunming Railway Hemaling–Beikaizhu Curve(abandoned). Chengdu–Kunming Railway Bagele Curve. Fala Curve. Gansu Lanzhou–Xinjiang Railway Wushao Hill Curve (abandoned). Qinghai Guanjiao Curve Group, Qinghai–Tibet Railway Erlang Curve. Erlang North Curve. Nanshan Curve. Luobei Curve. Luobei South Curve. Iran The Trans-Iranian Railway through the Alborz Mountains has extensive horseshoe curves, including four double horseshoes, and with a double spiral at . Also on the Trans-Iranian in the Zagros Mountains, a pair of tightly linked horseshoes forms a "figure of 8" in which one loop almost completely contains the small city of Sepiddasht, Lorestan. The other loop is almost entirely within a tunnel, with both its portals nearly side-by-side but several meters different in elevation. Both loops rotate about 250 degrees each. Japan Kamaishi Line of East Japan Railway Company in Japan, has a horseshoe curve from Kamiarisu Station down to Rikuchū-Ōhashi Station ("down" on the elevation and registration of direction of the line). Oceania Australia The Cougal Spiral is a feature of the North Coast Railway in Australia that connects New South Wales with Queensland through Richmond Gap. The railway line climbs at a steady ruling gradient from Kyogle to the summit at a tunnel at the border between the two states. Picton railway station, New South Wales, turns back on itself at about 225 degrees. New Zealand The Raurimu Spiral in New Zealand has a horseshoe curve as the first part of the climb. The U-bend south of Maddingly, Victoria takes a large detour to descend 100m. Turangarere, New Zealand North Island Main Trunk line near Hīhītahi. References Railway track layouts Road transport