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3 unusual facts about National Railway


National Railway

On September 21, 1868, the Attleborough Railroad, a short branch line chartered April 15, 1856 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was taken over by Hamilton and renamed to the National Railway, to be part of the through line.

On May 14 the North Pennsylvania approved the construction of the Delaware River Branch, splitting from the main line at Jenkintown and running to the Delaware River at Yardley.

On March 30, 1871, the German Valley Railroad was chartered in New Jersey, including a Trojan Horse for the National Railway.


Fox Chase Line

The line, opened on February 2, 1878, as the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad, was built to block the construction of the parallel National Railway, later home to the Reading Railroad's (RDG) Newark, New Jersey service.

Yield management

In 2002, Deutsche Bahn, the German national railway company, experimented with yield management for frequent loyalty card passengers.


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Angelo Mangiarotti

Milano Certosa and Milano Rogoredo national railway stations (Ferrovie dello Stato).

Audun-le-Tiche

Audun-le-Tiche is served by a railway station that is served by both French national railway and the Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, on whose Line 60 it is located.

Channel Air Bridge

Combined rail-air-rail services were provided between London and Brussels in conjunction with British Rail and Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Belges/Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen (SNCB/NMBS), the respective contemporary national railway companies of the UK and Belgium.

Council Bluffs Railway

A subsidiary of OmniTRAX, the Council Bluffs Railway began operations in May 1991 when it took over the 30-mile terminal switching operations of the former Council Bluffs and Ottumwa Railway, which was a subsidiary of National Railway Systems and operated that trackage from 1989 to 1991.

David McLean

David G. A. McLean (born 1938), chairman of the Canadian National Railway Company

Delta Bessborough

On May 30, 1931, Walter Pratt, General Manager of Hotels, Sleeping and Dining Cars of the Canadian National Railway announced that Sir Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough and 14th Governor General of Canada had given consent for the hotel to be formally named “The Bessborough”.

Eaton Internment Camp

The site of the original camp is on the grounds of the present-day Saskatchewan Railway Museum, situated at the junction of Highway 60 and the Canadian National Railway, four kilometers southwest of Saskatoon.

Goat River

Goat River, British Columbia, a railway point on the Canadian National Railway in the Robson Valley region of the upper Fraser or the associated rail station Goat River railway station

Guelph Transit

The initial route of the GRC was south along Woolwich Street, through the downtown and along Dundas Road, with a second line running from the Sleeman owned Silvercreek Brewery on Waterloo Avenue, to the Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk (later Canadian National) Railway stations.

Mahmoud Hessaby

Hessaby was admitted to the École Superieure d'Electricité and in 1925 graduated while he was employed by the SNCF (French National Railway).

Makabana

Makabana is served by a station on the national railway network and by Makabana Airport.

National Railway Museum Inclinator

The National Railway Museum Inclinator was a short demonstration funicular railway located inside the National Railway Museum in the English city of York.

Norman MacMillan

Norman John MacMillan (1909–1978), president of Canadian National Railway, 1967–1974

North Yorkshire Moors Railway

1999 National Railway Heritage Awards, Railway World category, Commendation for the renovation, almost amounting to rebuilding, of Levisham waiting and ladies room, including the provision of a completely new ‘period’ interior with in-style ladies toilets

Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway

It is operated by the Osceola Historical Society and the Minnesota Transportation Museum on former Soo Line and Wisconsin Central trackage, now owned by Canadian National Railway.

Pere Marquette 1225

In August 1991, 1225 along with NKP 765 pulled a 31 car excursion train during the National Railway Historical Society's annual convention in Huntington, West Virginia.

Trent Lock

Immediately to its north-east is Trent Junction, a similarly important five-way meeting point in the national railway system.

Ukrainian Railways

The National Railway University in Dnipropetrovsk currently has 10 faculties as well as a technical school, a business school and branches in Odessa and Lviv, 450 professors and 39 separate fields of study related to Railway transport.

Warman railway station

Soon the name of the town site was changed to Warman, named after Cy Warman (1855–1914), a journalist who followed and recorded the construction of the Canadian National Railway.

Wisconsin Central

Wisconsin Central Ltd., regional railroad acquired by the Canadian National Railway in 2001