X-Nico

unusual facts about Railway company


Railway company

Public service obligations or franchising is then used to determine the right to operate the line for a limited time period, with multiple private companies bidding for the privilege to operate.


Oresundtrain

Most of the trains on the Oresundtrain network are operated by DSB Øresund, a joint operation between DSB and First Group, and Veolia but a few are operated by DSB on the inter-city line to Ystad, where they connect to the high-speed ferry to Bornholm.


see also

0-6-0+0-6-0

In 1894 Kitson and Company of Leeds built a modified Meyer articulated locomotive of this type for the Anglo-Chilean Nitrate and Railway Company.

2-6-2

In 1901 the Zululand Railway Company, contracted for the construction of the Natal North Coast line from Verulam to the Tugela River, acquired one 2-6-2 side-tank locomotive as construction engine from Baldwin Locomotive Works.

Bartholomew Binns

Before becoming hangman, Binns was employed as foreman platelayer at Dewsbury by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, but after he got the post he no longer worked anywhere.

Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin

Hartmut Mehdorn (born 1942), German manager and former chairman of the board of the German Railway company

Busto Arsizio Nord railway station

Busto Arsizio Nord is served by the regional trains MilanNovara and by the Malpensa Express, both operated by the lombard railway company Trenord.

Cologne-Minden Railway Company

The Cologne-Minden Railway Company built the 183 kilometre long railway between 1859 and 1862 from Deutz via Betzdorf, Dillenburg and Wetzlar to Gießen, with a branch to the mines in Siegen.

Dallas, Oregon

Louis Gerlinger, Sr., incorporated the Salem, Falls City and Western Railway Company late in October 1901 and announced plans to build a railroad from the Willamette River at Salem to the mouth of the Siletz River on the Oregon Coast, a distance of 65 miles.

Davenport Road

The Davenport Street Railway Company was purchased by the Toronto Suburban Street Railway Company 1894, which as in turn acquired by the owners of the Canadian Northern Railway.

Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company

The Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company was a railway company formed by a syndicate of Victorian capitalists to construct a railway from Moama to Deniliquin in New South Wales, Australia.

EU Directive 91/440

Deutsche Bahn has expanded considerably in the rail freight market, with the purchase of the freight section of the Dutch railway company NS (now DB Schenker Rail Nederland), EWS (UK), and DSB goods (Denmark) amongst others.

Eurorail

Privatbanen Sønderjylland, a defunct Danish railway company also known as "EuroRail"

Franklin S. Billings

In 1903 he moved to Vermont and was a director of the Woodstock: Railway Company, Hotel Company, Aqueduct Company, and Electric Company.

Gare de Chepoix

The station was first opened in 1846 by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord (Nord Railway Company) and served the small industrial village of Chepoix.

Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway

The Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway was a railway company in Scotland that was formed to run trains between Shettleston and Hamilton.

Great Continental Railway Journeys

Production of a second series of 6 episodes included filming in Spain and Gibraltar during May and June 2013 following the Ronda-Algeciras railway line, built by British interests under the 'Gibraltar Railway Company' for the benefit of British Officers stationed in Gibraltar wanting to travel into Spain and inland.

Imazu

Ōmi-Imazu Station, railway station on the Kosei Line of West Japan Railway Company in Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Indianapolis Union Railway

It was organized on May 31, 1850, as the Union Track Railway Company by the presidents of the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company (M&I), the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad Company (TH&R), and the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad Company (I&B) for the purposes of establishing and operating joint terminal facilities in Indiana's capital city.

Katsunuma

Katsunuma-budōkyō Station, railway station of Chūō Main Line, East Japan Railway Company

Kielder Viaduct

The railway company had hoped to tap the coal traffic from Plashetts colliery that opened in the 1850s but this proved disappointing, although there was some traffic from forestry in the area.

Laurence Gomme

He attended the City of London School to the age of sixteen, when he started work, first with a railway company, then with the Fulham board of works, finally, in 1873, with the Metropolitan Board of Works: he remained with it and its successor, the London County Council, until his retirement in 1914.

Leeds and Bradford Railway

At last in 1843 they succeeded in forming the Leeds and Bradford Railway company, with George Hudson (known as the 'railway king') as chairman.

Lindau Lighthouse

The lighthouse and the entire port of Lindau were originally built by the Bavarian Railway Company and later used to be operated by the shipping department for Lake Constance of Deutsche Bahn.

Lollandsbanen

A/S Lollandsbanen is a Danish railway company operating the Nykøbing FNakskov line mostly on the island of Lolland.

Lynton and Barnstaple Railway

Woody Bay Station was purchased by the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Company in 1995 and, after much effort, a short section of railway reopened to passengers in 2004.

Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company

James Moore C. E., a nephew of Sir William Cubitt (under whom he was engaged on the South Eastern and Great Northern railways in Britain and presumable learnt his trade there) was then appointed in March 1854 as Chief Engineer for the Hobson's Bay Railway company.

Milano Porta Genova railway station

Milano Porta Genova is terminus of the regional trains to Mortara, operated by the lombard railway company Trenord.

Montafon Railway

The Montafon Railway (German: Montafonerbahn) is a privately owned railway company that operates services from Bregenz to Schruns, via Bludenz.

Monthey-Champéry-Morgins

The Monthey-Champéry-Morgins railway (MCM) was a railway company in the Chablais region of Switzerland which was formed to construct a metre gauge line linking Monthey with Champéry and a branch line from the village of d’Illiez to Morgins.

NGR Class I 2-6-2T

In December 1895 an agreement was reached with the Natal sugar magnate Liege Hulett, representing the Zululand Railway Company, for the construction of the new line.

Northern Counties

Northern Counties Committee (1903-1949), a railway company of Northeast Ireland

Oliver Bridge

The Oliver Bridge was constructed across the Saint Louis River in 1916 by the Interstate Transfer Railway Company, a Wisconsin corporation, under special federal authorization from the 60th United States Congress (Session I, Chapter 31, February 20, 1908).

Port of Felixstowe

The port is operated by the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company which was set up under an Act of Parliament, the Felixstowe Railway and Pier Act 1875 and so, is one of the few limited companies in the UK that do not have the word "Limited" in their name.

Regiobahn GmbH

The Regiobahn is a German railway company founded in 1992 which operates the line S28 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn between Kaarst and Mettmann.

Richard A. Waite

Grand Trunk Railway Company Limited Building, Montreal 1906 - 360 ru McGill now Édifice Gérald-Godin (home to Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities)

Royal Division of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway

Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach Railway Company (Ruhrort–Crefeld−Kreis Gladbach Eisenbahngesellschaft, RCG), founded in 1844, approved by the Prussian government on 21 August 1846 and granted a concession on 8 January 1847 to build the line from Homberg via Trompet, Uerdingen and Viersen to Gladbach.

Royal Saxon State Railways

This had been necessary, after the private firm, the Chemnitz-Riesa Railway Company, had gone bankrupt due to the cost of structures needed between Waldheim und Döbeln.

Royal Westphalian Railway Company

The Royal Westphalian Railway was initially established only to fill the 32 km-long gap between Hamm and Lippstadt, connecting the Münster–Hamm line of the Munster–Hamm Railway Company (Münster-Hammer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) opened in 1848 with the line being constructed at the same time by the Cologne-Minden-Thuringian Connection Railway Company (Köln-Minden-Thüringischen-Verbindungs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, KMTVEG).

Rur Valley railway

Rurtalbahn (German for "Rur Valley Railway") is a railway company servicing the Rur valley from Linnich to Heimbach.

Sir Arthur Pease, 1st Baronet

Pease eventually also became chairman of Middlesbrough Estate Ltd, North-Eastern Improved Dwellings Company, William Whitwell & Co, and the Durham & North Yorkshire Public House Trust, and a director of the North Eastern Railway Company/London and North Eastern Railway Company, Lloyds Bank, Horden Collieries Ltd, the Forth Bridge Railway Company, the National Benzole Company, and a number of others.

South Australian Railway Company

The South Australian Railway Company is not to be confused with South Australian Railways.

Spilsby branch

Construction of the railway began in March 1867 with the ceremonial cutting of the first turf performed by local rector, the Reverend Rawnsley who was standing in for the railway company's chairman Lord Willoughby de Eresby.

SS Coya

In 1975 the Peruvian Corporation was nationalised and Coyas ownership passed to the state railway company ENAFER.

St Austell bus station

The network was progressively extended over the next twenty years, after which time the services were transferred to the Western National Omnibus Company, formed in 1929 to free the railway company from its bus services and avoid complaints about its transport monopoly.

Tanjong Pagar

The Malaysian railway company (Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM)) ran trains to a terminal railway station here.

Thomas Myres

The railway company anticipated substantial business from Goodwood Racecourse and provided facilities to cater for horseboxes as well as additional trains bringing racegoers.

Tokyu

Tokyu Corporation, a Japanese railway company, the largest member of the group

University of Applied Sciences Offenburg

It is just off the A5 motorway and is served on the Rhine Valley Railway of the German railway company Deutsche Bahn with the high speed train ICE.

Vincent Wetta

Wetta was born in Wichita, and lived in Wellington, where he worked as a conductor/engineer with the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway Company from 1966 to 2006.