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Butetown Branch Line

The Butetown Branch Line, also known as the Cardiff Bay Line, is a commuter railway line in Cardiff, Wales from Cardiff Bay and Cardiff Queen Street.

Carpenders Park

It is bounded to the West by a railway line that separates it from South Oxhey, to the East by the A4008 Watford to Harrow Road (Oxhey Lane), to the South by the B4542 (Little Oxhey Lane), Green Belt and the boundary with the London Borough of Harrow and to the North by woodland (Margeholes Wood and Sherwood Wood).

Kashmir Railway

1897: The railway line from Jammu to Sialkot was first built, becoming the first railway in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Pernink

The economic situation was bolstered by opening of a railway line Karlovy VaryJohanngeorgenstadt in 1899.

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.

Sawmills Studio

The location is unique as it can only be accessed by boat or via the railway line that runs past the studio.

South Staffordshire Line

The South Staffordshire Line is a railway line that once connected Lichfield in Staffordshire, England with Dudley, formerly in Worcestershire.

St George's Church, Worthing

Its boundaries are the railway line to the north, the border with Adur district to the east, the English Channel to the south and the High Street and Steyne to the west.

St Mary's Church, Walberton

It lies north of the railway line between Ford and Barnham, and extends beyond the A27 road in the north.

Trentham Park Branch Line

The Trentham Park Branch Line was a 1¼-mile railway line that ran through the Trentham area of Stoke-on-Trent.

United Services Recreation Ground

The ground is also bordered to the north by Park Road, along which the railway line to Portsmouth Harbour and Gunwharf Quays overlooks the ground, and to the east by Anglesea Road.

Venlo–Eindhoven railway

The Venlo–Eindhoven railway is an important railway line in the Netherlands running from Venlo to Eindhoven, passing through Helmond and Deurne.


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Almelo–Salzbergen railway

The Almelo–Salzbergen railway is an important Dutch and German 54 kilometre long railway line, that connects Almelo with Salzbergen, offering a rail link between the Netherlands and Germany.

Bahnbetriebswerk

It looked after locomotives on the first railway line in Germany, the Bavarian Ludwigsbahn from Nuremberg to Fürth.

Bavarian Gt 2x4/4

The locomotives were developed specially for the steep ramps in the K.Bay.Sts.B.'s territory: the railway line from SonnebergProbstzella, the Spessart ramp, the Franconian Forest Railway (Frankenwaldbahn), the Schiefe Ebene (lit: inclined plane), and the line from Eger to Asch (today Cheb-).

Berlin Bornholmer Straße station

The station opened on October 1, 1935, at the junction of the Nordbahn line from Berlin to Stralsund with the railway line to Szczecin where the eponymous street named after Bornholm Island crossed the tracks.

Bhor Ghat

Later, Mountstuart Elphinstone and John Malcolm laid a railway line from Mumbai to Pune through Bhor Ghat, making it a rail route with 28 tunnels, old bridges and magnificent views.

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.

Box Hill railway station, Melbourne

The original station opened in 1882 at ground level, when the railway line was extended from Camberwell to Lilydale.

Brünig

The Brünig railway line, a railway line in Switzerland linking Interlaken and Lucerne

Castello Orsini-Odescalchi

The railway Line FR3 connects it with Rome (stations of Ostiense and Valle Aurelia) in about 55 minutes.

Cerbère

The village is best known for the border railway station, Gare de Cerbère, on the French side of the border on the railway line between Perpignan and Barcelona.

Chagoda

A railway line connecting the stations of Kabozha (in Novgorod Oblast) and Podborovye (Leningrad Oblast) runs through Chagoda.

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).

Coscile

Near Spezzano Albanese the river is also crossed by the railway line from Cosenza to Sibari.

Dětmarovice

The power station is situated on an important main railway line from Prague/Vienna to Warsaw.

Environa, New South Wales

It lies just east of the Queanbeyan-Cooma railway line as it goes past the industrial estate of Hume, ACT.

Furnace Green

National Cycle Route 20 passes through Furnace Green, entering via Tilgate Drive from Three Bridges, to the north, at the point where it passes over the Horsham railway line and continuing south into Tilgate Forest en route for Brighton.

Hofpleinlijn

Their first railway line connected Den Haag Hollands Spoor station with the sea side resort of Scheveningen.

Jasidih–Dumka–Rampurhat railway line

The new railway line takes off from Dumka towards the north and will connect with Bhagalpur railway junction.

Jōetsu

Jōetsu Shinkansen, a high-speed shinkansen railway line connecting Tokyo and Niigata

Kajiado

Kajiado has a station on the Magadi Soda Railway line which runs from Konza (on the Mombasa line) to Magadi.

Ķengarags

The train stations on the railway line within Ķengarags are Jāņavarti, Daugmale and Šķirotava stations.

Kilburn station

Kilburn railway station, Adelaide, a TransAdelaide station on the Gawler railway line

Kostrzyn–Słubice Special Economic Zone

The Zone is situated near main roads including the international E30 (A2), E65 (A3) and E28 motorways and near to the ParisBerlinWarsawMoscow international railway line.

Leamside Line

The Leamside Line (originally part of the Durham Junction Railway) is a railway line in the North East of England, branching off from the main East Coast Main Line (ECML) at Tursdale in County Durham, and continuing north through Washington and Wardley, finally joining the Newcastle upon Tyne to Sunderland line at Pelaw.

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.

Maurienne

The A43 autoroute and a railway line enter at the western end from the Isère valley, and leave at Modane using the Fréjus Road and Rail Tunnels respectively which both emerge at Bardonecchia in Italy.

Moçâmedes Railway

The Moçâmedes Railway is a 907 km railway line in Angola, between Namibe (which was called Moçâmedes until 1985) and Menongue in Cuando Cubango province.

Mommenheim

The nearest railway stations are each some 7 km away from Mommenheim: Nackenheim and Nierstein on the Mainz–Mannheim railway line, and Nieder-Olm on the Mainz–Alzey line.

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.

Neuendorf, Bavaria

The newly built Nantenbach Curve and Nantenbach Main Valley Bridge (Maintalbrücke Nantenbach) on the Aschaffenburg-Würzburg railway line and the bypass on Bundesstraße 26 have changed the community’s face considerably.

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.

Plouaret–Lannion railway

The railway from Plouaret to Lannion is a regional railway line between Plouaret and Lannion in Côtes-d'Armor, France.

Porajów

It lies on a railway line and road running from Zittau in Germany to Hrádek nad Nisou village in Liberec district in the Czech Republic; however the trains do not stop on Polish territory.

Ramatlabama

It is also the location where the Cape TownBulawayo railway line enters Botswana; north of Ramatlabama the railway is the main line of Botswana Railways, while to the south it is part of the network of Transnet Freight Rail.

Řeporyje

The western part of Řeporyje is an industrial area, marked by the visually prominent silo belonging to Soufflet Agro a.s. The district is served by Praha-Řeporyje railway station, a passing point on the Praha - Rudná - Beroun railway line.

Richard Alfred Tills

Tills moved to the Atherton Tableland and established a sawmill at Redlynch, eight miles from Cairns, on the Cairns-Mareeba railway line, with Charles Michael, Robert Warren and three times Mayor of Cairns, Louis Severin.

S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland

At the end of 2013, the ongoing full electrification of the railway line Leipzig-Hof (as part of Saxony-Franken-Magistrale) south of Reichenbach im Vogtland was completed.

Salamis Naval Base

A suburban standard gauge light railway line (Piraeus-Perama light railway) opened in 1936, connecting downtown Piraeus with Perama and terminating inside the Naval Base at Amphiali.

Selja Gorges

At beginning of the 20th century, the railway line was built from the harbor of Sfax to the mining town of Métlaoui.

Semaphore railway line

In 1917 when the Semaphore to Rosewater and Albert Park tram line was opened there was an unresolved dispute over the tramline crossing the railway line near Exeter station.

Shigeno

Shigeno Station, railway station of Shinano Railway Line in Tōmi City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Stamboliyski

The first settlers came from Brestovitsa and Perushtitsa, which together with railway workers from Peshtera established a village north of the railway line, which in 1926 had 224 residents.

Stockholm South Station

The new station is an underground station situated under the site of the old station and on the railway line it is between Årstaberg and Stockholm C. About 5 minutes walk on Swedenborgsgatan you can found the Mariatorget metro station.

The Way We Live Now

He sets out to woo rich and powerful investors by hosting a lavish party, and finds an appropriate investment vehicle when he is approached by a young engineer, Paul Montague, and his American partner, Hamilton K. Fisker, to invest in the construction of a new railway line running from Salt Lake City to Veracruz, Mexico.

Thrissur-Guruvayur Section

The final surveys were done for the Guruvayur-Tanur railway line in January 2003, which will cover 51 km.

Tongi–Bhairab–Akhaura line

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

Vaga River

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

Witham Charterhouse

The site of the charterhouse is marked by extensive rectilenear earthworks, cut by a railway line, and some worked stone can still be seen in buildings in the village of Witham Friary.

Zero Point railway station

This railway station was built in February 2006 when Mirpur KhasMunabao metre gauge railway line converted into broad gauge.