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Aqaba Railway Corporation

In 1979 the Aqaba Railway Corporation (ARC) was incorporated and took over the route from Abiad to Aqaba.

Bezmer Air Base

The base is situated in the eastern part of the Upper Thracian Lowland, in Yambol Oblast (Region), 10 km west of the city of Yambol and 30 km southeast of the city of Sliven, between the villages of Bezmer and Bolyarsko, and near the Sofia-Burgas railway.

Bitterne Manor

The area is bounded on the North, West and South by the River Itchen, and on the East by the railway line linking Southampton to Portsmouth.

British Rail Class 411

It was moved in May 2008 from the Dartmoor Railway to the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway until August 2013, immediately prior to that railway's closure pending re-organisation.

Chennai Mass Rapid Transit System

In 2008, a proposal was initiated to construct a new railway line from Perungudi MRTS station in Chennai to Pondicherry via Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) and East Coast Road (ECR).

Dar es Salaam commuter rail

RAHCO, the holding company of TRL, issued a tender in September 2013 inviting bids for feasibility studies and the design of new railway lines from its central station to four destinations: Luguruni (Morogoro Road), Chamazi (Kilwa Road), Pugu (via Julius Nyerere International Airport) and Kerenge.

DB Class 210

Since the DB V 169-001 (DB 219 001) had already proven sufficiently that a locomotive of this type would work the Class 210 went into normal operations fairly quickly - between the end of 1970 and the beginning of 1971 the locomotives began operations, by the end of 1971 all eight locomotives had been introduced to the railway centre (Bahnbetriebswerk or Bw.) at Kempten and were in scheduled operation.

Devon Railway Centre

The Devon Railway Centre is in the village of Bickleigh in Mid Devon, England, at the former Cadeleigh railway station on the closed Great Western Railway branch from Exeter to Dulverton, also known as the Exe Valley Railway.

Dhananjay Mahato

During the tenure of then Chief Minister of Bihar Jagannath Mishra, he built the Gunda Bihar Railway Station.

Dingee railway station

Dingee Railway Station is an unmanned operational V/Line train station situated on the Bendigo-Swan Hill Line in the town of Dingee, 200 km north of Melbourne, Australia and 50 km north of Bendigo.

Dorking railway station

In 1845-6, the "Direct London and Portsmouth Railway" was authorised by parliament to run south from Epsom to Dorking on to Godalming, Havant and Portsmouth.

Elizabeth Street, Sydney

Central Railway: designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, Central Railway has been described as the grandest railway station in Australia.

Frederick Thornhill

Just over a month later, Thornhill died at the age of 29 at Toton Sidings, the largest marshalling yards of the Midland Railway.

Funambule

the Funambule funicular, a funicular railway in the Swiss city of Neuchâtel

Gare de Pierrelaye

Pierrelaye is a railway station in the town of Pierrelaye, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.

H. Gordon Tidey

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

Heckington

The £2.5 million 2.8 mile-long village bypass, built by Reed & Mallik Ltd of Salisbury, was opened by Lynda Chalker on 14 December 1982, and the former route of the A17 is now the B1394, which also leads to Billingborough via Great Hale across a level crossing over the partially single-track railway near the railway station.

History of Maine

The Portland Company built early railway locomotives and the Portland Terminal Company handled joint switching operations for the Maine Central Railroad and Boston and Maine Railroad.

Holmestrand Private Station

With the planning of a private railway to Hvittingfoss during the last years of the 1890s, there arose a controversy over the location of a new station in Holmestrand.

Hutzot HaMifratz Railway Station

Hutzot HaMifratz Railway Station is a station on both the main North-South coastal line of Israel Railways (Nahariya – Haifa – Tel AvivBen-Gurion AirportBe'er Sheva Inter-City Service) and the suburban line serving Haifa's northern suburbs – The Qrayot (Haifa - Qiryat Motzkin Suburban Service), although only a third of all the Inter-City trains actually stop at the station.

Izmir-Eğirdir railway

New branches were built of the railway to reach important towns such as Isparta and Burdur and service increased over the years.

Jean-Pierre Brisset

He became stationmaster at the railway station of Angers, and later of L'Aigle.

Khun Tan

Khun Tan Tunnel, the longest railway tunnel in Thailand in Lampang and Lamphun provinces

Kuitan Railway Station

Kueitan Railway Station is a railway station located in Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, on the Xiashen Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Lollar–Wetzlar railway

The Lollar–Wetzlar railway was a railway line in the German state of Hesse, connecting the towns of Lollar and Wetzlar via Lahnau.

Menthorpe Gate railway station

Menthorpe Gate railway station was a station on the Selby to Driffield Line in North Yorkshire, England serving the village of North Duffield and the hamlet of Menthorpe.

Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway

The Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway is a 24 km long main line on the left (western) bank of the Rhine in the Lower Rhine region of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Murupara Branch

The Murupara Branch (incorporating the Kawerau Branch) was a branch railway line from the East Coast Main Trunk at Hawkens Junction near Edgecombe via Kawerau to Murupara; built to serve a new pulp and paper mill havesting the radiata pine trees of the Kaingaroa Forest on the Kaingaroa Plateau in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

N class

NZR N class, a class of steam locomotives used by the New Zealand Railways Department and the Wellington and Manawatu Railway

Novosokolnichesky District

Novosokolniki was founded in 1901 as a station of the railway which connected Moscow and Riga.

Papakura North

The previous area was referred to as a small area of greater Papakura, but has now developed into a single suburban area, stretching south of the Addison complex, west of the Southern Railway Line (parallel to Porchester Road), down to Old Wairoa Road, and right to the western border of the Papakura Military Camp.

Port-Daniel railway station

The Port-Daniel railway station is a staffed Via Rail station on Route 132 in Port-Daniel–Gascons, Quebec, Canada.

Ramgarh district

By rail: The nearest railway stations are Ramgarh Cant station (28 km), Ranchi Road (30 km), Barkakana (33 km), Ranchi (70 km), Koderma (135 km).

Raunheim station

Raunheim station is a railway station in the town of Raunheim in the German state of Hesse on the Main Railway from Mainz to Frankfurt am Main.

Royal Hanoverian State Railways

The routes therefore ran into the district of Lehrte in the form of a cross (hence Kreuzbahn = cross railway) and, as a result, Lehrte developed into an important railway hub.

Saint Croix-Vanceboro Railway Bridge

The first railway bridge over the St. Croix River at this location was opened in October 1871 by U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and Governor General of Canada Lord Lisgar on the completion of the European and North American Railway (E&NA) between Bangor, Maine and Saint John, New Brunswick.

Sawbridgeworth railway station

Sawbridgeworth railway station serves the town of Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, England.

Schortens

Many workers settled down in what would become central Schortens, a railway connection to Jever, established in 1871 also contributed to the development of the town.

Socofer

Socofer is the name for the railway construction company that before 1968 was known as Établissements Billard.

Solway Junction Railway

The Solway Junction Railway ran between the Caledonian Railway near Kirtlebridge and the Brayton station of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway.

South Manchuria Railway

A visiting executive from the Erie Railroad was quite impressed with the arrangement, and described South Manchurian Railway ca.

Swan Hill railway line

Options discussed include the return of passenger trains on the existing railway between Ballarat and Mildura, or via an extension the extension of the railway from Swan Hill to connect to the Mildura line at Ouyen.

Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station

It is the largest and busiest railway station in Kerala in terms of passenger movement and an important rail hub in Southern Railway.

Tongi–Bhairab–Akhaura line

The Tongi–Bhairab–Akhaura line is a railway line connecting Tongi and Akhaura, via Bhairab Bazar in Bangladesh.

Trans-Andean railways

Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles - ENFE, operator of the National Railways of Bolivia, and consultant Hagler Bailly, United States, have signed a contract to undertake an economic feasibility study into the proposed $US 1 billion 338 km AiquileSanta Cruz Railway (IRJ July p6).

Urle

The villages are served by a railway stop named after Urle, too; the stop is used only by local trains of Koleje Mazowieckie (previously PKP) that travel between Warsaw and Małkinia (or closer Łochów on the same line).

Vaga River

In Velsk, it also crosses the railway line connecting Konosha with Kotlas and eventually with Vorkuta.

Warszawa Wschodnia railway station

It is now considered the worst railway station in Poland, according to Gazeta Wyborcza which gave it last place in the ranking of 23 most significant Polish railway stations.

West Kirby railway station

West Kirby railway station is situated in the town of West Kirby, Wirral, England.

Wolli Creek Regional Park

Access to the park is available through adjacent suburban streets and railway stations located at Tempe, Turrella, Bardwell Park, and Bexley North.


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