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unusual facts about suburban railway



BHÉV

Now integrated to MÁV's (Hungarian State Railways) network: Esztergom HÉV (today suburban railway, since 1931 owned by Hungarian State Railways), Lajosmizse HÉV (suburban railway, a.k.a. Budapest-Tiszai HÉV (1909)), Vác–Budapest–Veresegyház–Gödöllő HÉV (partially abandoned, but the Vác-Veresegyház-Budapest line is still in operation).


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Alster Valley Railway

Just one year after the signing of the Ohlsdorf Treaty, which was the basis for the Hamburg-Altona City and Suburban Railway—the precursor of the S-Bahn—on 12 December 1905, a community group formed to promote the extension of the suburban railway through Ohlsdorf to the Alster Valley and beyond.

Beekkant metro station

The station is located in the borough of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, running parallel to a railway used for freight trains and in 2010 again as suburban railway line of the future Brussels RER.

Chennai Port

The port is served by the Chennai Beach railway terminus in the Chennai Suburban Railway Network of the Southern Railway, chiefly handling suburban trains on the Chennai Beach-Tambaram section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network.

Cremorne railway station

George Coppin, who was the proprietor of the attraction, lobbied the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company, and then entered a financial arrangement with it, to expedite the building of the quarter mile, four minute extension from Richmond railway station.

Épinay-sur-Orge

Épinay is served by two stations on different branches of line C of the RER suburban railway system: Épinay-sur-Orge and Petit-Vaux.

George Cornwell

Cornwell had previously been involved as contractor in many other major construction works including the Melbourne Grammar School, the Model School, Coppin’s Haymarket Theatre, the Sunbury railway goods shed and other Melbourne and Suburban Railway works.

Granville Station

Granville Street railway station, a former station in Birmingham on what was the West Suburban Railway, now the Cross City Line.

Guindy railway station

With the completion of track-lying work of the Chennai BeachTambaram section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network in March 1931, which began in 1928, the suburban services were started on 11 May 1931 between Beach and Tambaram, and the tracks were electrified on 15 November 1931, with the first MG EMU services running on 1.5 kV DC.

Overground

London Overground - the official brand name of a London suburban railway run by Transport for London since 2007

SACEM

The Système d'aide à la conduite, à l'exploitation et à la maintenance is an embedded automatic speed control system used on railway systems, including the RER A suburban railway of Paris and some of the MTR and Santiago Metro lines

Sherwood station

Sherwood railway station, station on the former Great Northern Railway Nottingham Suburban railway in Nottingham

Southern Line

The Southern Line, Auckland, a suburban railway line in Auckland, New Zealand.

Springfield Line

Springfield railway line, Brisbane, a suburban railway line in Queensland, Australia