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23 unusual facts about Rail transport


Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin

In 1845 he was appointed a director of the Paris & Lyons railway.

Bessèges

Its importance began with the opening of a coalmine in 1809, followed by an iron and steel plant in 1833, and eventually the railway reached it in 1857.

Canning, Nova Scotia

Though much diminished in importance in recent years, Canning was once a major shipbuilding centre and shipping and rail hub for farmers in Kings County.

Cannonsburg, Michigan

Bostwick, a business agent of railroad and steamboat financier LeGrand Cannon of Troy, New York, was instructed to give a lot to each resident who was not otherwise provided for.

Canton, Iowa

The town once had a population of approximately 2,000 people, but when the railroad bypassed Canton in favor of the city of Maquoketa, the population plummeted.

Draisine

A draisine is a light auxiliary rail vehicle, driven by service personnel, equipped to transport crew and material necessary for the maintenance of railway infrastructure.

Dryrock

Dryrock requires protection from the weather, and so is always shipped by rail using covered hopper and gondola cars.

ECT Mainline Rail

ECT Mainline Rail was a British railway rolling stock hire and maintenance company.

Epes Randolph

Epes Randolph (August 16, 1856 – August 22, 1921) was an American civil engineer and businessman who constructed railroads in America's South, Ohio, Arizona, California, and Mexico.

Expreso Rojo

In 1991 the team was renamed Expreso Palmira, due to the support of the carrier of the same name.

Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead

Slightly upstream was Robert Stephenson's new High Level Bridge, completed five years previously in 1849, an ingenious double-decker design allowing railway traffic on the upper deck and road traffic on the lower.

H. Gordon Tidey

Herbert Gordon Tidey (1879-1971) was an English railway photographer.

Historical society

Generally, a historical society focuses on a specific geographical area, such as a county or town or subject, such as aviation or rail.

INTERMAT Middle East

INTERMAT Middle East is an event showing the equipment and techniques used in the international building and civil engineering sectors to contractors and public authorities, all companies involved in building road, highway, railway, bridges, tunnels, ports and airports, marine and oil & gas infrastructures in the Middle East region.

LeRoy Armstrong

In his youth he worked in the forestry, rail and grocery businesses before moving to Apohaqui, New Brunswick in 1965 and founding a trucking operation, which he merged into a larger operation in 1985 called Kingsco.

Meadowhall Centre

Meadowhall has a public transport interchange, Meadowhall Interchange, making it the only shopping centre in the UK that combines a bus, rail and tram interchange as well as making the centre

Mobile World

It is particularly aimed at the automobile and allied sectors but also covers a range of international topics around sea, road, rail and air transports and communications.

Old Fitzgerald

Beginning in 1870, Old Fitzgerald was first produced for rail and steamship lines and private clubs primarily located in the south by John E. Fitzgerald in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Pet passport

A cheaper alternative around this aberration in the rules is to fly to some other European city, such as Paris or Amsterdam, and then travel to the UK by rail or ferry instead, which do not have this restriction.

Public transport in Istanbul

Public transport in Istanbul comprises a bus network, various rail systems, funiculars, and maritime services to serve the more than 13 million inhabitants of the city spread over an area of 5712 km².

Richard C. Kerens

In 1876 he moved to St. Louis, Mo., and thereafter was interested in the construction of railroads and was active in the Republican politics of Missouri.

Rudnica, Lubusz Voivodeship

It is located 1 km east of the Lubniewka River, a regional tributary of the Warta River, and 2 km southward from the railway line leading from Gorzów Wielkopolski to Kostrzyn nad Odrą.

Samuel Untermyer

After admission to the bar, he soon gained fame as a lawyer, focusing on corporate law, and became a staunch advocate of stock market regulations, government ownership of railroads, and various legal reforms.


Alan Garrett Anderson

Once established in the shipping industry, Anderson expanded into the related field of rail transport, becoming director of Midland Railway in 1911, a seat he maintained through the merger of that railway in 1923 into London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Bukit Merah Lake Railway Bridge

The Bukit Merah Lake Railway Bridge or Bukit Merah Marine Viaduct is a double track railway bridge under construction located in Bukit Merah Lake, in the state of Perak, Malaysia.

Dean Village

The cemetery which is one of the few in Scotland run as a non-profit making charity trust (to avoid being asset-stripped), is the resting place of many well-known people, including the railway engineer Sir Thomas Bouch and David Octavius Hill.

Destilería Serrallés

The sugar cane plantation they built virtually became a company town, and eventually had its own rail line, workers' housing, transportation fleet, commissary, and private—later public—airport (Ponce's Mercedita Airport).

Ealing Community Transport

ECT entered the railway rolling stock hire and maintenance market, owning hire companies RT Rail and Mainline Rail and also RMS Locotec of Wakefield.

East Perth Power Station

The site of East Perth was chosen because coal could easily be delivered there by rail and because the enormous quantities of cooling water required by the condensing plant could easily be drawn from the Swan River.

Guillemard Bridge

Guillemard Bridge (Malay: Jambatan Guillemard Jawi: جمبتن ڬويلليمارد) is a single track railway truss bridge located in Kusial, in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia.

Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company

Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, also called Jackson & Woodin Car Works, was an American railroad freight car manufacturing company of the late 19th century headquartered in Berwick, Pennsylvania.

Jake Award

The Jake Award is an annual award presented to North American short line (Class III) railroads by rail transport industry group American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association.

John Riley Banister

Between 1889 and 1892, Banister accepted special assignments as a detective for the Santa Fe and other railroads.

Kinsol Trestle

The Kinsol Trestle, also known as the Koksilah River Trestle, is a wooden railway trestle located on Vancouver Island north of Shawnigan Lake in the Canadian Province of British Columbia.

Meriwether, Louisville

Its boundaries are the CSX railroad tracks to the north, Shelby Street to the east, E Brandeis Ave to the south and I-65 to the west.

Miller's line

In 1875, on an area between Miller's pier and Sestroretsk rail station, the engineer Fyodor Pirotsky experimented on the adaptation of rail transport to be driven by an electrogalvanic cell.

Roseworthy, South Australia

Roseworthy has a large grain storage facility consisting of both storage silos and bunkers for grain grown in the surrounding areas, and grain is collected by rail to be taken to Port Adelaide for export.

Transfield Services

Transfield Services operates across diverse industries, including mining and process, hydrocarbons, transport (including road, rail and public transport), utilities (including water, power, and telecommunications), facilities management and defence.