query: when was the first railway line built in britain

pos: History of rail transport in Great Britain A year later, George Stephenson improved on that design with his first locomotive "Blücher", which was the first locomotive to use single-flanged wheels. That design persuaded the backers of the proposed Stockton and Darlington Railway to appoint Stephenson as Engineer for the line in 1821. While traffic was originally intended to be horse-drawn, Stephenson carried out a fresh survey of the route to allow steam haulage. The Act was subsequently amended to allow the usage of steam locomotives and also to allow passengers to be carried on the railway. The 25-mile (40 km) long route opened on 27 September 1825

neg: History of rail transport 1887 when an approximately 20-km long railway between Tehran and Ray was established. After this time many short railways were constructed but the main railway, Trans-Iranian Railway, was started in 1927 and operated in 1938 by connecting the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea. Japan developed its first railway line in 1872 with technical and materiel assistance provided by several western nations such as Britain and America. It was in 1847 when the first railway was imagined but it was not until 1861 when it came into existence in the form of the railway built from Karachi to Kotri. Since

neg: Keadby Bridge and rail traffic across the River Trent. It was built between 1912 and 1916 by the Great Central Railway to replace a previous swing bridge built by the South Yorkshire Railway and opened in 1864. It carries a double track railway line on the southern side, and the two-lane, single carriageway A18 road on the north side. Its 50-metre (163 ft) electrically powered bascule (lifting span) was one of the first of its type in Britain and, when built, was the largest in Europe. Designed by James Ball and C A Rowlandson and built by contractors Sir William Arrol &

neg: Lakeside Miniature Railway building at Marine Parade was completely rebuilt around 2010 and now awaits refurbishment. The original northern terminus was named "Princes Park", it closed when the line was extended. The railway was built in 1911, with the first train on 25 May. It was constructed by Miniature Railways of Great Britain Ltd using materials provided by the model engineering business Bassett-Lowke. Henry Greenly provided expert engineering advice. The line was originally named Southport Miniature Railway, being operated by Dr Ladmore, a local dentist. Mr Griffiths Vaughan Llewelyn took the railway over after some years, renaming it Llewelyn's Miniature Railway. It passed

neg: Lagos–Kano Standard Gauge Railway Construction Corporation to construct a standard gauge railway from Lagos to Kano. Due to an inability to secure funding for the whole project, the Nigerian government decided to build the standard gauge line in segments and rehabilitate the narrow-gauge line in the meantime. The 187 km segment from Abuja to Kaduna was the first to be built. Abuja was not on the national railway network, as the city was built after Nigeria became independent from Great Britain. Kaduna is an important junction point on the existing Cape gauge railway network, where a branch line departs the Lagos–Nguru line for Kafanchan,

neg: Great Central Main Line Great Central Main Line The Great Central Main Line (GCML), also known as the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR), is a former railway line in the United Kingdom. The line was opened in 1899 being built by the Great Central Railway running from Sheffield in the North of England, southwards through Nottingham and Leicester to Marylebone in London. The GCML was the last main line railway to be built in Britain during the Victorian period. Built by the railway entrepreneur Edward Watkin with the aim to run a fast northsouth line, it was designed to

neg: Railways in Buckinghamshire share tracks with the Met to a new terminus at Marylebone in London. The line officially opened on 9 March 1899, although the first passenger service did not run until 16 March. The GCR main line was the last main line to be completed in Britain until the Channel Tunnel Rail Link over a century later in 2003. Although the GCR route of 1899 was the last Victorian main line to be built, one last railway line was to be built in Buckinghamshire. The Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway was a joint venture between the GWR and GCR.

neg: Salsette–Trombay Railway here the line headed West along the present C. S. T. Road towards Santacruz with halts at Kolovery and Kole-Kalyan and finally turned north towards Andheri with halts at Sahar and Chakala stations. The line operated eight steam engines built in Britain by W. G. Bagnall in 1921 and delivered new to the Salsette Trombay Railway. Most of the locomotives used were returned to Britain after the line was shut. Salsette–Trombay Railway The Salsette–Trombay Railway (also known as the Central Salsette Tramway) was a standard gauge railway line on the island of Salsette in the city of Mumbai (Bombay), India.

neg: West Highland Line is one of two railway lines which access the remote and mountainous west coast of Scotland, the other being the Kyle of Lochalsh Line which connects Inverness with Kyle of Lochalsh. The line is the westernmost railway line in Great Britain. At least in part, the West Highland Line is the same railway line as that referred to as the West Highland Railway. The route was built in several sections:- There is an additional section from Fort William (or a junction near Fort William) to Mallaig, built as the Mallaig Extension Railway. Shortly after leaving Queen Street station in Glasgow,

neg: History of rail transport in France to Andrézieux Railway) and the line was first operated in 1827, for goods, and for passengers in 1835. From 1830 to 1832, the line from Saint-Étienne to Lyon was opened, for goods and passengers, becoming the first passengers line of continental Europe. In that time Saint-Étienne was an important coal and iron industry center and Lyon was the main town in the south of France. French railways started later and developed more slowly than those in certain other countries. While the first railway built in France started operation in 1827, not long after the first line had opened in Britain,

neg: Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway service to London, and eventually it found one, when the Midland Railway built its line to Carlisle, opening in 1875/6. From that time a firm alliance was formed, and express passenger trains to London ran over the Dumfries line and via Leeds on the Midland line, reaching London at St Pancras station. The G&SWR expanded south-westward from Glasgow, where more traffic—mineral as much as passenger—was available than in the moorlands of Nithsdale. The G&SWR continued in existence until the "grouping" of the main line railways in Great Britain, under the Railways Act 1921; the G&SWR, together with the Caledonian Railway,

neg: Gedling and Carlton railway station Gedling and Carlton railway station Gedling and Carlton railway station was a former railway station built to serve the villages of Gedling and Carlton in Nottinghamshire. It was opened by the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) on its Derbyshire Extension in 1875–6 and closed in 1960. It was on the climb from the junction at Colwick with the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway into Nottingham London Road. From Gedling and Carlton, the line climbed through Mapperley Tunnel between the Trent and Leen valleys, reaching the first summit of the line at Arno Vale. Mapperley Tunnel was extremely unstable

neg: Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway The Cologne–Aachen high-speed line is the German part of the Trans-European transport networks project "high-speed line Paris–Brussels–Cologne". It is not a newly built railway line, but a project to upgrade the existing railway line which was opened in 1841 by the Rhenish Railway Company. When it was continued into Belgium in 1843, it became the world's first international railway line. The line inside Germany has a length of about . The first from Cologne to Düren have been rebuilt. Since 2002 the line allows for speeds up to . Separate tracks have been built parallel to the

neg: High-speed rail in the United Kingdom High-speed rail in the United Kingdom The international definition of high-speed rail encompasses lines with a top speed of at least and existing lines with a top speed of around . As of 2011, there are four "classic" main railway lines in Britain operating at up to , plus of purpose-built high-speed line. The first purpose-built high-speed rail line in Britain was the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, the first section of which opened in 2003. That was re-branded "High Speed 1" in 2006. At present, a mixture of Eurostar international services and Southeastern domestic passenger services use High Speed 1.

neg: Stratford station figures, it is the 6th busiest station in Britain and the busiest station in London that is not a central London terminus. Stratford station was opened on 20 June 1839 by the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) with the first station building being located on Angel Lane which crossed the line on an over-bridge to the east of the station. The Northern and Eastern Railway opened a section of its authorised line from to join the ECR at Stratford on 15 September 1840. As well as a station, a railway works was built adjacent to the line to Broxbourne. This and

neg: West Cornwall Railway West Cornwall Railway The West Cornwall Railway was a railway company in Cornwall, Great Britain, formed in 1846 to construct a railway between Penzance and Truro. It purchased the existing Hayle Railway, and improved its main line, and built new sections between Penzance and Hayle, and between Redruth and Truro, and opened throughout in 1852. When the Cornwall Railway reached Truro in 1859, rail travel between Penzance and London was possible, by changing trains. Later, however, the West Cornwall company was called on to carry out certain mandatory improvements; it lacked the funds to undertake the work, and it was

neg: Kirklees Light Railway II listed Emley Moor transmitting station, passes through the ancient woodland of Blacker Wood which is mentioned in the Domesday Book and includes a trip through the long Shelley Woodhouse Tunnel, the longest tunnel on any gauge line in Britain. The original line as built was , but upon reopening as the Kirklees light railway, the line is short of the former Clayton West Junction on the Penistone Line and the length of the light railway is . |} All the locomotives used on the railway were built by the railways founder Brian Taylor. They have all benefited from the

neg: Tanfield Railway The oldest locomotive on the railway was built in Gateshead in 1873, and all of the railway's carriage stock dates from the 19th Century. The current preserved line passes near to Causey Arch, the oldest surviving railway bridge in the world. It was built to carry a new branch from the route of the now preserved line, to a site known as Dawson's Drift. Built between 1725 and 1727, at and , it was the largest single-span bridge in Britain, and remained so for 30 years. As of 2017, the Railway has become the home to a large collection of

neg: Wirral line units during quieter times, yet still be drivable from both ends. Additional vehicles were added to the fleet in 1925 and 1925, constructed by Cravens of Sheffield, and in 1936, built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company. The Railways Act 1921 took effect on 1 January 1923, when most railway companies in Britain were grouped into one of the Big Four. The Wirral Railway became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) company, while the GCR, which it met at Bidston, was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). The Birkenhead Joint Railway and

neg: Thomas Brassey or platforms were made of layers of faggot-wood and peat sods. As these sank, they dispersed the water and so a firm foundation was made. This line is still in use and forms part of the East Coast Main Line. Also in 1847 Brassey began to build the North Staffordshire Railway. By this time the "railway mania" was coming to an end and contracts in Britain were becoming increasingly more difficult to find. By the end of the "railway mania", Brassey had built one-third of all the railways in Britain. Following the end of the "railway mania" and the drying

neg: Staward Halt railway station for freight when the line closed on 20 November 1950. Former Services Staward Halt railway station Staward Halt is a closed stone built railway station situated on a single track branch railway line in Northumberland, England, that ran from through to . Authorised in 1865 the Hexham to Allendale Railway was opened in stages, first to in 1867, then to (then known as "Catton Road") in 1868. Built to carry freight, primarily the product of local lead mines, the line eventually opened to passengers. The passenger service was run by the North Eastern Railway who took over the line in

neg: Steam railcar "These sources are in German" Steam railcar A steam railcar is a railcar that does not require a locomotive as it contains its own steam engine. The first steam railcar was an experimental unit designed and built in 1847 by James Samuel and William Bridges Adams in Britain. In 1848 they made the Fairfield steam carriage that they sold to the Bristol & Exeter Railway, who used it for two years on a branch line. The first steam railcar was designed by James Samuel, the Eastern Counties Railway Locomotive Engineer, built by William Bridges Adams in 1847, and trialled between

neg: Steam railcar Steam railcar A steam railcar is a railcar that does not require a locomotive as it contains its own steam engine. The first steam railcar was an experimental unit designed and built in 1847 by James Samuel and William Bridges Adams in Britain. In 1848 they made the Fairfield steam carriage that they sold to the Bristol & Exeter Railway, who used it for two years on a branch line. The first steam railcar was designed by James Samuel, the Eastern Counties Railway Locomotive Engineer, built by William Bridges Adams in 1847, and trialled between Shoreditch and Cambridge on 23

neg: Great Western Steamship Company Britain" appeared to be a total loss after running aground. The company might have had a more successful outcome had it built sister ships for the "Great Western" instead of investing in the too advanced "Great Britain". By the 1830s, Liverpool was overtaking Bristol as a transatlantic port. The Great Western Railway was formed in 1833 to build a Bristol-London line and appointed Isambard Kingdom Brunel as chief engineer. The issue of the line's length was discussed at an 1835 director's meeting when supposedly Brunel joked that the line could be made longer by building a steamship to run between

neg: Alley when they are a pedestrian passage through railway embankments in Britain. The latter follow the line of rights-of way that existed before the railway was built. Arcades are another kind of covered passageway and the simplest kind are no more than alleys to which a glass roof was added later. Early examples of a shopping arcades include: Palais Royal in Paris (opened in 1784); Passage de Feydeau in Paris (opened in 1791). Most arcades differ from alleys in that they are architectural structures built with a commercial purpose and are a form of shopping mall. All the same alleys have

neg: Ilkeston North railway station Valley Line at the third station, Ilkeston Junction and Cossall. Bridges have been filled in, and the station demolished. The town's 1990's Police Station has been built on its site. Some of the remaining track bed has also been built on, with the remainder forming the Cotmanhay Linear Park. Ilkeston North railway station Ilkeston North railway station was a railway station in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. It was opened by the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) on its Derbyshire Extension in 1878 and closed in 1964. From Awsworth the line crossed the Erewash Valley by means of the impressive Bennerley Viaduct which

neg: Dublin Broadstone railway station successfully competed with its rival the Great Southern and Western Railway to reach it first in August 1851. A special fourth class was introduced by the MGWR for poor migrants from the west going to Britain for work. The line, which branched out to serve Sligo, Westport, Achill and Clifden, was also used to transport large numbers of cattle. It was about this time that the majority of the houses in the area were constructed, as dwellings for workers on the railway. Most of the houses were built by the "Artisan's Dwelling Company", which built many similar estates in Dublin

neg: Quetta railway station Britain feared that the Russian Empire might advance from Afghanistan into Quetta, thereby threatening its rule in South Asia. In 1857, when the idea was suggested by William Andrew (Chairman of Scinde, Punjab & Delhi Railway) that a railway line be constructed through the Bolan Pass. On 18 September 1879 work begun on laying the railway tracks and after four months, the first 215 kilometres of line from Ruk to Sibi was completed and become operational in January 1880. Beyond Sibi, the terrain was very difficult. After immense difficulties and harsh weather conditions, the line reached Quetta in March 1887.

neg: Weardale Railway transport in 1993, the line was threatened with closure by British Rail (BR), and it was taken over by a group of enthusiasts. The Weardale Railway currently runs for between Bishop Auckland and the site of Eastgate-in-Weardale Station, making the line one of the longest preserved standard gauge heritage railways in Great Britain. gained its first rail link in 1842, when the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) backed Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway (BA&WR) gained the powers via an Act of Parliament to build a railway line from the S&DR's station at via Bishop Auckland and Witton-le-Wear into Crook, County

neg: Polegate railway station Polegate railway station Polegate railway station serves Polegate in East Sussex, England. It is on the East Coastway Line, from , and train services are provided by Southern. The first station opened on 27 June 1846 when the London and Brighton Railway built a line from Brighton to Hastings via Lewes. The station was built at Polegate to serve the nearby towns of Hailsham and South Bourne, the latter now part of Eastbourne. The first station was on the site of the present station. It then became a junction station on 14 May 1849 when an east facing branch headed

neg: Umgeni Steam Railway Umgeni Steam Railway Umgeni Steam Railway - a railway preservation group, started in 1982 subsequent to the donation of a small Dubs loco by Illovo Sugar, now located just outside Durban in a small village called Inchanga. The history of the line they use dates back to the 1880s when the first railway line was built to run from Durban-Pietermaritzburg (90 km by road). The line runs through a 53 metre long tunnel at Drummond built in 1878, and is probably the oldest tunnel in use today in South Africa. The Class-3BR loco, in use every month, was built by

neg: River Wye, Derbyshire grow quickly on a diet of freshwater shrimp, sedge and upwinged flies (to name but a few of the foods available). Some of the largest populations of Water Voles in Britain can also be found along the River Wye. It is possible to walk alongside much of the length of the river, mostly following a former railway line, part of which is now the Monsal Trail and provides views of the river. In Monsal Dale the former railway line emerges from a tunnel at Monsal Head, over a viaduct high above the river below. When this structure was built John

neg: Edward Watkin also on the board of the Chemin de Fer du Nord, a French railway company based in Calais. Watkin's ambitious plan was to develop a railway network which could run passenger trains directly from Liverpool and Manchester to Paris, crossing from Britain to France via a tunnel under the English Channel. As well as a high-speed specification, the Great Central Main Line was also built to an expanded continental loading gauge; unlike any other railway lines in Britain, Watkin's line would be able to accommodate larger-sized continental trains crossing from France. Watkin started his tunnel works with the South Eastern

neg: Eastern Union Railway Eastern Union Railway The Eastern Union Railway (EUR) was an English railway company, at first built from Colchester to Ipswich; it opened in 1846. It was proposed when the earlier Eastern Counties Railway failed to make its promised line from Colchester to Norwich. The businessman John Chevallier Cobbold and the engineer Peter Bruff were prominent in launching the company. The allied but nominally independent Ipswich and Bury Railway built a line onwards to Bury St Edmunds, also opening in 1846, and soon amalgamated with the EUR. Norwich was connected to the EUR in 1849 by the EUR building a line

neg: Slave Island railway station through Slave Island. The Slave Island Railway station was built shortly after the construction of the track. In 1913 it became the first station on the Coastal Line to have a double platform. The station carries significant architectural and historic value. The station displays stylish arches, intricate woodwork and metal installations, and the signature Victorian mixing of iron and stone. According to Sirisena Rajapkashe, author of The History of Sri Lankan Railways, the architecture of the station was influenced by the era stations on the Liverpool-Manchester line and the London-Birmingham line in Britain. The station is now a historic building

neg: Great Central Railway disagreements between the MetR and GCR after the resignation of Sir Edward Watkin due to poor health. By the time the line was built, the companies had settled their differences. On 1 January 1923, under the terms of the Railways Act 1921, the GCR amalgamated with several other railways to create the London and North Eastern Railway. The GCR line was the last complete mainline railway to be built in Britain until section one of High Speed 1 opened in 2003 and was also one of the shortest-lived intercity railway lines. Yet in its early years its steam-hauled Sheffield expresses

neg: Ise Electric Railway cities; this was how Iseden came to be. The company was founded in 1911 under the name of Ise Railway (伊勢鉄道 "Ise Tetsudō"), however it was changed to Ise Electric Railway in 1926 when the company began electrifying its lines. The first line, known as the Iseden Main Line, ran between stations in central Yokkaichi and Tsu and was built with a single track, no electrification, and many sharp curves to wind through existing settlements; this was due to the line being planned and built by inexperienced railway architects and engineers. The second line, the short Kambe Line, suffered from

neg: Dinas railway station (Festiniog Railway) to Portmadoc and points between. This was the first steam-hauled passenger service in Britain to use tracks of less than Standard Gauge, with the line carrying a quarter of a million people in its first year of operation. The station's first stationmaster was Mr John Lloyd, the initial service was five trains to and from Portmadoc each day except Sunday. The station was built among existing slate workings which had been rail-served for some years. The original route to the station and nearby workings was to be buried under slate waste from around 1900, but the railway still needed to

neg: Taiping railway station Taiping railway station The Taiping railway station (; Jawi: ستيسين کريتاڤي تايڤيڠ) is a Malaysian train station located at and named after the town of Taiping, Perak. Malaysia's first railway station was situated in Taiping and was opened in 1885 when the Taiping-Port Weld Railway Line, Malaysia's first, was opened. The current modern station is the third railway station to be built in Taiping. It was built as part of the Ipoh-Padang Besar Electrification and Double-Tracking Project which was completed in 2014. The station is on the West Coast Line and is a stop for both the KTM ETS services

neg: Taiping railway station July 2015, "ETS Ekspres" trains began serving this station. Taiping railway station The Taiping railway station (; Jawi: ستيسين کريتاڤي تايڤيڠ) is a Malaysian train station located at and named after the town of Taiping, Perak. Malaysia's first railway station was situated in Taiping and was opened in 1885 when the Taiping-Port Weld Railway Line, Malaysia's first, was opened. The current modern station is the third railway station to be built in Taiping. It was built as part of the Ipoh-Padang Besar Electrification and Double-Tracking Project which was completed in 2014. The station is on the West Coast Line and

neg: East Coast Main Line East Coast Main Line The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a major railway link between London and Edinburgh via Peterborough, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham and Newcastle; it is electrified along the whole route. The route forms a key artery on the eastern side of Great Britain and is broadly paralleled by the A1 trunk road. The original line was built during the 1840s by three separate railway companies, the North British Railway, the North Eastern Railway, and the Great Northern Railway. During 1923, the enactment of the Railway Act of 1921 led to these three companies amalgamating together to

neg: Wellfield railway station Wellfield railway station Wellfield railway station was a railway station built by the North Eastern Railway (NER) on the route of the Hartlepool Dock & Railway (HD&R) to allow interchange between the existing line and their newly opened line from Stockton-on-Tees which had opened to passenger traffic just two years earlier. When first built, the station was located in a rural area, being located immediately to the north of the bridge carrying the Durham to Hartlepool road over the railway line. However the village of Wingate in County Durham, North East England gradually expanded northwards over the course of the

neg: Reading–Taunton line extended west to Devizes and Trowbridge. The second was the line the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway built between Westbury and Castle Cary, which was part of a route from Chippenham to Weymouth. The first step of creating the direct line was in 1900 when the Stert and Westbury Railway was built from Patney and Chirton (west of Pewsey) to Westbury. In addition to being part of creating a long-distance line from Reading to Taunton, it also created a shorter GWR route from London to Weymouth. The last stage to be built was the Langport and Castle Cary Railway from

neg: Helensburgh railway station Helensburgh's first station opened in 1889 as the single line from Sutherland was progressively extended south towards Stanwell Park. It was built between the short Helensburgh Tunnel and the longer Metropolitan Tunnel to service the local Helensburgh township. A new site opened on 30 May 1915 when the line was duplicated and new tunnels were constructed between Waterfall and Otford. The first Helensburgh Station was built in 1889 on the first single line section of the Illawarra Railway, opening from Waterfall to Scarborough in 1888. This section of the line thereby provided a continuous line as far as by connecting

neg: Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway and was returned to service on 23 October 2011 as a single track, with increased clearance. Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway The Cologne–Aachen high-speed line is the German part of the Trans-European transport networks project "high-speed line Paris–Brussels–Cologne". It is not a newly built railway line, but a project to upgrade the existing railway line which was opened in 1841 by the Rhenish Railway Company. When it was continued into Belgium in 1843, it became the world's first international railway line. The line inside Germany has a length of about . The first from Cologne to Düren have been rebuilt. Since 2002

neg: Stawell railway station Stawell railway station Stawell railway station is located on the Western standard gauge line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Stawell, opening in 1877. It was the temporary terminus of the line from Ararat, until 17 December 1878, when the line was extended to Murtoa. The station was first built in 1877, following the extension of the Serviceton line from Ararat. The Ararat to Stawell railway line was first approved by the Victorian Government by Act No. 475, which passed into law on 25 November 1873. In 1876, the Ararat to Stawell line was completed, and a temporary

neg: Wellfield railway station eventually extended to Ryhope after the closure of the remaining section of the line between Murton Colliery and Junction in 1991. Wellfield railway station Wellfield railway station was a railway station built by the North Eastern Railway (NER) on the route of the Hartlepool Dock & Railway (HD&R) to allow interchange between the existing line and their newly opened line from Stockton-on-Tees which had opened to passenger traffic just two years earlier. When first built, the station was located in a rural area, being located immediately to the north of the bridge carrying the Durham to Hartlepool road over the

neg: Main North railway line, New South Wales have fallen into disrepair. In December 1991 the line was severed when the Roads & Traffic Authority built a deviation of the New England Highway over the line at Bluff Rock south of Tenterfield. At Wallangarra, the line met Queensland Railways' Southern railway line. The first section of the Main North line was built from the port of Newcastle to Victoria Street, Maitland in 1857 as the "Hunter River Railway Company"'s line and then extended to Singleton in 1863, Muswellbrook and Murrurundi in 1872, Werris Creek and West Tamworth in 1878, Armidale in 1883 and Wallangarra in 1888. The Sydney

neg: Shanghai–Hangzhou railway Shanghai–Hangzhou railway The Shanghai–Hangzhou railway also known as the Huhang railway (), is a double-track railroad in eastern China between Shanghai and Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province. Its name in Chinese, the Huhang Line, is named after the railway's two terminal cities, Shanghai, whose Chinese character abbreviation is "hu" and Hangzhou. The line is long and was built from 1906 to 1909. Cities along the route include Shanghai, Jiaxing and Hangzhou. The line now forms part of the Shanghai–Kunming railway. In 1898, the Qing government of China granted to Britain a concession to build a railway between Shanghai and Hangzhou. This

neg: Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) lines. Also in the 1846 session, powers were granted to various allied companies to make lines from Boston to Grimsby and Stamford to Spalding – which was never built – and also the Hitchin to Royston section only of a proposed Oxford and Cambridge Railway. The Great Northern began construction first on the Peterborough to Gainsborough section of the loop line, as the ease of construction over the flat fens promised an earlier return on investment. Because a proposed branch from Bawtry to Sheffield had been rejected by parliament, it was thought better for the loop line to rejoin the

neg: Haiger station Haiger station Haiger station serves the town of Haiger in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis of the German state of Hesse. The first station at this point was opened 1862 when the Cologne-Minden Railway Company built the Deutz–Gießen railway, connecting Cologne-Deutz with Gießen. The station became more important when the direct connection was opened to Siegen (now considered part of the Dill line) in 1915. Between 1911 and 1913 a new station building was built as a “wedge station” (Keilbahnhof) between the old line (now the Heller Valley Railway) and the new line to Siegen. The architect was perhaps Ludwig Hoffmann. The station

neg: Coalville Town railway station Coalville Town railway station Coalville Town was a railway station at Coalville in Leicestershire on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. Passenger business was carried out at the "Railway Hotel" when the line opened in 1833 until the first Coalville station was opened by the Midland Railway in 1848, replaced in 1894 and closed in 1964, although the line remains in use for freight. The Leicester and Swannington Railway was originally built to carry coal and there was little provision for any passenger traffic. When the railway opened at Long Lane, now Coalville, in 1833 passenger business had to

neg: History of rail transport in Great Britain Lime Street station in Liverpool's city centre via a 1.1 mile long tunnel. Many of the first public railways were built as local rail links operated by small private railway companies. With increasing rapidity, more and more lines were built, often with scant regard for their potential for traffic. The 1840s were by far the biggest decade for railway growth. In 1840, when the decade began, railway lines in Britain were few and scattered but, within ten years, a virtually complete network had been laid down and the vast majority of towns and villages had a rail connection and sometimes

neg: Timperley one of the first railway lines in Great Britain to use supply by overhead cables. A large electrical sub-station was built in connection with this just south of Timperley station. The line was converted to be part of Manchester Metrolink in 1992. Up until the early 19th century Timperley was one of several townships in the parish of Bowdon. Timperley Parish Council was established in the 19th century. From the late 19th century Bucklow Rural District Council administered Timperley until 1936 when responsibility passed to Altrincham Urban District Council. In 1974, Altrincham UD was merged into the new Trafford Metropolitan

neg: History of rail transport in Great Britain 1830–1922 passengers had to disembark at Paddington, Euston, King's Cross, Fenchurch Street, Charing Cross, Waterloo or Victoria and then make their own way via hackney carriage or on foot into the centre, thereby massively increasing congestion in the city. The Metropolitan Railway was built under the ground to connect several of these separate railway terminals. It opened in 1863, and was the first line of what was to become the London Underground. Marylebone was connected to the Bakerloo line in 1907, however Fenchurch Street was never connected to the system - a peculiarity that remains to the present day. The financial

neg: Ballochmyle Viaduct underneath the central arch. Ballochmyle Viaduct The Ballochmyle Viaduct is the highest extant railway viaduct in Britain. It is high, and carries the railway over the River Ayr near Mauchline and Catrine in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It carries the former Glasgow and South Western Railway line between Glasgow and Carlisle. Designed by the John Miller, the viaduct was built in the 1840s for the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Company. Work commenced on its construction during March 1846; it was built under contract by Ross & Mitchell and William McCandlish was the resident engineer. It is built of local

neg: Ballochmyle Viaduct Ballochmyle Viaduct The Ballochmyle Viaduct is the highest extant railway viaduct in Britain. It is high, and carries the railway over the River Ayr near Mauchline and Catrine in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It carries the former Glasgow and South Western Railway line between Glasgow and Carlisle. Designed by the John Miller, the viaduct was built in the 1840s for the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Company. Work commenced on its construction during March 1846; it was built under contract by Ross & Mitchell and William McCandlish was the resident engineer. It is built of local red sandstone and stronger

neg: Goathland but in the series is the Aidensfield Arms. After filming for some years a replica was built in the studio. Goathland railway station is on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The railway is run by a charitable trust with some paid staff but is mostly operated by volunteers, running nearly all the year including Christmas. It carries more than 250,000 passengers a year and is the second-longest preserved line in Britain. It links Grosmont in the north with Pickering in the south, along the route of the Whitby - Pickering line built by George Stephenson in 1835 and upgraded in

neg: Transport in Třebíč today railway station of Třebíč–Stařeč was then built. Třebíč got railway station within city limits in 1886 when Střelice-Okříšky segment of Bohemian-Moravian Transversal Railway line segment was built. Třebíč is well connected with other cities by express trains running through the town once per hour in weekdays. Public transport first operated in Třebíč in 1871-1886 period when the railway station Třebíč–Stařeč was connected to the city by omnibus line. Bus transportation was re-established in 1956. During the 1980s, the town planned to establish trolleybus network but the social changes after 1989 Velvet revolution stopped any actual actions. In Třebíč there

neg: Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway 1830s the imagination of railway promoters led to proposed schemes to link the major centres of Great Britain. In 1834 a "Grand Northern and Eastern Railway" was proposed, and in 1835 a "Great Northern Railway" (nothing to do with the later "Great Northern Railway" of the 1850s) was projected. Both of these schemes were for a line from London to York through Cambridge. Many of the early schemes failed, and none was built north of Cambridge for many years. In 1847, the Eastern Counties Railway opened its line from Ely to March and Peterborough. The Eastern Counties Railway chairman was

neg: Dereham railway station to wait until 11 September 1848 when the Lynn & Dereham Railway built its own terminal station just before the junction with the Norfolk Railway. This station was closed in 1850 when trains were extended to the Norfolk Railway station. The King's Lynn line was originally operated by the Lynn & Dereham Railway, but in 1848 the Eastern Counties Railway leased the Norfolk Railway the line was absorbed. In 1857 the line between Dereham and Wells opened. The entire line became part of the Great Eastern Railway in 1862. The station was built in stages, being expanded over several decades.

neg: Springburn railway station Springburn railway station Springburn railway station serves the Springburn district of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is north of Glasgow Queen Street (High level) station on the Cumbernauld Line and is a terminus of the Springburn branch, a spur from Bellgrove station, on the North Clyde Line. The station was first built by the City of Glasgow Union Railway, whose branch line from opened to goods traffic in 1875. A station building was designed by the engineer James Carswell in 1875 and was opened in 1887, when passenger traffic then began operating. Initially built as a terminus, two through platforms were

neg: Berlin–Baghdad railway Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns locomotive works in Britain built a class of streamlined Pacific steam locomotives to haul the Taurus Express between Baghdad and Tel Kotchek. These were delivered to Iraqi State Railways in 1941 and entered service as the PC class. A new standard gauge railway opened between Baghdad and Basra for freight traffic in 1964 and for freight in 1968. It was also used for passenger traffic at least into the 1970s. This replaced a metre gauge line built in 1920 and for the first time connected the Bosphorus with the Persian Gulf without a break of gauge.

neg: Glasgow City and District Railway were: Glasgow City and District Railway The Glasgow City and District Railway was a sub-surface railway line in Glasgow, Scotland, built to connect suburban routes east and west of the city, and to relieve congestion at the Queen Street terminus. Construction of the cut-and-cover route, only the fourth such in Great Britain, was formidably complex, but the line opened in 1886. It was steam operated, leading to complaints about smoky conditions. It had a four-platform low level station at Queen Street, and was heavily used. The line was electrified in 1960 and today forms the central part of the North

neg: Glasgow City and District Railway Glasgow City and District Railway The Glasgow City and District Railway was a sub-surface railway line in Glasgow, Scotland, built to connect suburban routes east and west of the city, and to relieve congestion at the Queen Street terminus. Construction of the cut-and-cover route, only the fourth such in Great Britain, was formidably complex, but the line opened in 1886. It was steam operated, leading to complaints about smoky conditions. It had a four-platform low level station at Queen Street, and was heavily used. The line was electrified in 1960 and today forms the central part of the North Clyde

neg: Holmfirth branch line Holmfirth branch line The Holmfirth branch line is a disused railway line that ran for from Brockholes to Holmfirth, in West Yorkshire, England. The line was built as double track as there were plans to extend the line up the Holme Valley. The Holmfirth branch was built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway company. It was due to open on 24 June 1850 but problems meant this was delayed until 1 July 1850, when the first train left Holmfirth at 11:25 a.m. In the first week of operation 1,869 tickets were sold at Holmfirth, along with another 674 at the

neg: Wirral Railway steam trains of the London and North Eastern Railway (as successor since 1923 to the Great Central Railway). Through coaches from New Brighton to London had been inaugurated in 1923, one journey in each direction being made. When the New Brighton line was electrified, the London service continued at first, and was the only steam hauled passenger service on the New Brighton line. The coaches ran via West Kirby to Hooton, where they were attached to a main line train. The engine power was customarily a class 3F 0-6-0. On 1 January 1948 most of the railways of Great Britain

neg: Yarra Glen railway station Yarra Glen railway station Yarra Glen is the city-end terminus of the Yarra Valley Railway, which operates over part of the former Healesville railway line. The first station on the site was built in 1888–1889 when the railway line was extended from Lilydale to Healesville. The settlement had been previously named Burgoyne, but when the railway was extended, the decision was made to rename it Yarra Glen. Though Yarra Glen was a small settlement, its station was often used for supplying Melbourne with produce from nearby farms. The station closed along with the Healesville line in 1980. It sat idle

neg: Carmarthenshire Railway 1805 when the line had reached Gorslas. The engineer was named James Barnes and the gauge was approximately . The line ceased to operate in or before 1844 and portions of its course were utilised by the Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway, opened in 1881. Carmarthenshire Railway The Carmarthenshire Railway was a horse-worked plateway built in South Wales in 1803. The Carmarthenshire Railway or Tramroad was authorised under an Act of Parliament of 3 June 1802 – the first granted for a public railway in Wales – to acquire the existing Carmarthenshire Dock at Llanelly and its feeder tramroad built

neg: Railway time Railway time Railway time was the standardised time arrangement first applied by the Great Western Railway in England in November 1840, the first recorded occasion when different local mean times were synchronised and a single standard time applied. Railway time was progressively taken up by all railway companies in Great Britain over the following two to three years. The schedules by which trains were organised and the time station clocks displayed were brought in line with the local mean time for London or "London Time", the time set at Greenwich by the Royal Observatory, which was already widely known as

neg: History of the North British Railway (until 1855) it seemed as if the whole of Great Britain must be connected into it. The first long-distance line in Scotland was the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, opening in 1832, and this too was commercially successful beyond the expectations of its promoters. The E&GR had been built to the track gauge of 4 ft 8½ inches, whereas most of the earlier Scottish lines had been built with a gauge of 4 ft 6in. Although at that time interconnection with English railways was not yet considered, the selection must have been influenced by the perceived technical superiority of the Stockton and Darlington

neg: Barnes railway station Barnes railway station Barnes railway station is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south London, and is in Travelcard Zone 3. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway. The station, down the line from , was opened on 27 July 1846, when the line to Richmond was built. When the first section of the Hounslow Loop Line was opened on 22 August 1849, Barnes became a junction station. On the London side of the station there are four tracks; one pair turns off along the Loop Line here. Grade II listed,

neg: Leeds railway station carried entirely on viaducts and bridges. New Station was built partially on a bridge over the River Aire adjacent to Wellington railway station. The map to the right shows the variety of different railway lines in Leeds in 1913. Following the 1921 Railways Act, when railways in Great Britain were grouped into four companies, New Station was jointly operated by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). The first rationalisation occurred in 1938, when two railway stations (New and Wellington) were combined to form "Leeds City Station", opening on 2 May that

neg: History of rail transport in Namibia History of rail transport in Namibia The history of rail transport in Namibia began with a small mining rail line at Cape Cross in 1895. The first major railway project was started in 1897 when the German Colonial Authority built the gauge "Staatsbahn" (State Railway) from Swakopmund to Windhoek. By 1902 the line was completed. Parallel to this government initiative, the Otavi Mining and Railway Company (O.M.E.G.) was established. It built another gauge line, the "Otavibahn", from Swakopmund to Tsumeb via Otavi between 1903 and 1906, and a branch from Otavi to Grootfontein in 1907/08. The German colonial railway was

neg: Mangotsfield railway station station closed in 1966 when services to Bath ended as part of the Beeching cuts, and the line through the station closed in 1969. The railway became a cycle path in the 1980s, and is a popular resting point on the route as several of the station's walls and platforms are still in situ. The first railway through Mangotsfield was the Bristol and Gloucestershire Railway, which opened in 1828. The line, which was horse-drawn, was built to convey stone and coal to Bristol Harbour. The line was built as single track standard gauge, but with space for double track. A

neg: Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) towns line at Rossington instead, so no work was done on the loop north of Gainsborough. The GNR suffered a setback in 1848 when this deviation was rejected, but arrangements were soon made to use the MS&LR's authorized line from Sykes Junction (on the loop line north of Lincoln) to Retford and then via their own main line, and contracts for both of these lines were quickly let. The first section of line was opened on 1 March 1848 and was the Louth to Grimsby section of the East Lincolnshire Railway, which although nominally independent, was leased to the GNR

neg: Langley-on-Tyne railway station 1930, and for freight when line closed on 20 November 1950. Former Services The station buildings have been converted into a garden centre and café. Langley-on-Tyne railway station Langley-on-Tyne is a closed stone built railway station situated on a single track branch railway line in Northumberland, England, that ran from through the Border Counties Junction to . Authorised in 1865 the Hexham to Allendale Railway was opened in stages, first to in 1867, then to (then known as "Catton Road") in 1868. Built to carry freight, primarily the product of local lead mines, the line eventually opened to passengers. The

neg: SR Battle of Britain class 21C151 Winston Churchill SR Battle of Britain class 21C151 Winston Churchill 21C151 "Winston Churchill" is a Southern Railway Battle of Britain class 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive that has been preserved as part of the United Kingdom's National Collection. It is on display at the . 21C151 was built at Brighton Works in 1946, being released to traffic on 30 December of that year. Initially it was unnamed and paired with tender 3301. It was first allocated to Salisbury locomotive shed for services on the West of England Main Line between London and Exeter. 21C151 was officially named "Winston Churchill" in a ceremony at

neg: Rolleston-on-Dove railway station Rolleston-on-Dove railway station Rolleston-on-Dove railway station is a former railway station built to serve Rolleston on Dove in Staffordshire. The station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1894 as simply "Rolleston" but was renamed to avoid confusion with Rolleston Junction station. The line had been opened in 1848 and, from 1878, was shared by the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) with its Derbyshire Extension . The station was about a mile from the village. It was provided with two brick-built platforms and timber buildings. A goods loop ran behind the secondary platform to serve the station yard. Rolleston-on-Dove

neg: Barry Railway Class H all scrapped between 1925 and 1930. Barry Railway Class H The Barry Railway class H was a small class of seven 0-8-2T tank locomotives built for the Barry Railway by Sharp Stewart in 1896. When they were introduced they were the first locomotives in Britain to use the 0-8-2 wheel arrangement. The genesis of the class was in the four earlier Class D 0-8-0 tender locomotives. These had been purchased from Sharp Stewart, who had originally built them for the Swedish & Norwegian Railway. One attractive feature of these locomotives had been their short overall length, due to their diminutive

neg: Barry Railway Class H Barry Railway Class H The Barry Railway class H was a small class of seven 0-8-2T tank locomotives built for the Barry Railway by Sharp Stewart in 1896. When they were introduced they were the first locomotives in Britain to use the 0-8-2 wheel arrangement. The genesis of the class was in the four earlier Class D 0-8-0 tender locomotives. These had been purchased from Sharp Stewart, who had originally built them for the Swedish & Norwegian Railway. One attractive feature of these locomotives had been their short overall length, due to their diminutive four-wheeled tenders. This made them unusually

neg: London Bridge – Greenwich Railway Viaduct London Bridge – Greenwich Railway Viaduct The London Bridge – Greenwich Railway Viaduct consists of a series of nineteen brick railway viaducts linked by road bridges between London Bridge railway station and Deptford Creek, which together make a single structure in length. The structure carries the former London and Greenwich Railway line and consists of 851 semi-circular arches and 27 skew arches or road bridges. It is the longest run of arches in Britain, It is also one of the oldest railway viaducts in the world, and the earliest example of an entirely elevated railway line. It was built between

neg: GWR 111 The Great Bear GWR 111 The Great Bear The Great Bear, number 111, was a locomotive of the Great Western Railway. It was the first 4-6-2 (Pacific) locomotive used on a railway in Great Britain, and the only one of that type ever built by the GWR. There are differing views as to why Churchward and the GWR should have built a pacific locomotive in 1908 when current and future locomotive practice for the railway was centred on the 4-6-0 wheel arrangement. One suggestion is that "The Great Bear" was built in 1908 to satisfy demands from the directors for the largest locomotive

neg: Arunachal Pradesh its first railway line in late 2013 with the opening of the new link line from Harmuti on the main Rangpara North-Murkongselak railway line to Naharlagun in Arunachal Pradesh. The construction of the 33 kilometre broad gauge railway line was completed in 2012, and the link became operational after the gauge conversion of the main line from Assam. The state capital Itanagar was added to the Indian railway map on 12 April 2014 via the newly built 20 kilometre Harmuti-Naharlagun railway line, when a train from Dekargaon in Assam reached Naharlagun railway station, 10 kilometres from the centre of Itanagar,

neg: Dresden–Werdau railway Chemnitz locomotive depot. Chemnitz Süd () The station later called "Chemnitz Süd" was built in 1875 when the "Chemnitz-Aue-Adorfer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft" (Chemnitz–Aue–Adorf Railway Company) established its own station for its Chemnitz–Adorf railway. The company was nationalised one year later, and the trains were then connected to the main station, as were the trains on the Zwönitz–Chemnitz Süd railway, which opened in 1895. Today's station was built during the 1900s during the raising and lowering of sections of the line. For the first time, trains on the Dresden–Werdau line also stopped; there had been no platform on this line before. Particularly in

neg: Hervey station Hervey-Junction to Quebec City. This section of railway ceased to be used in 2007. The first station was located on the CNoR line at the south of the village of Hervey Junction, near the boundary with Sainte-Thècle. Hervey station Hervey station or Hervey-Jonction station is a railway station in Hervey-Jonction, Quebec, Canada. It is located on Chemin de la Gare. This station was built in when the National Transcontinental Railway (NTR) transcontinental railway main line was built between (Moncton–) Quebec City to the east and Western Canada to the west at a point where the line crossed the Canadian Northern

neg: Iraqi Republic Railways built during World War I that had ongoing significance was that from Baghdad East north eastwards to the Persian border. After the war the eastern end of this line was diverted to Khanaqin and the wartime built line north west from Jalula Junction was extended from Kingerban to Kirkuk in 1925. In 1932 Iraq became independent from Britain. In March 1936 Britain sold Mesopotamian Railways to Iraq, which renamed the company Iraqi State Railways. Work resumed on the extension of the Baghdad Railway between Tel Kotchek on the Syrian frontier and Baiji. The through route was opened and completed on

neg: St Ives Bay Line its application for an Act at the same time, the St Ives company withdrew its proposal. A new Act was successfully applied for in 1873 to authorise a St Ives branch line as an extension of the West Cornwall Railway, although by that time this was controlled by the Great Western Railway. It was opened on 1 June 1877, the last new broad gauge passenger railway route to be built in Britain. A third rail was added to the southern section of the line in October 1888 to allow standard gauge goods trains to reach the wharf at . The

neg: Thorne (Old) railway station Thorne (Old) railway station Thorne (Old) railway station was the second railway station built by the South Yorkshire Railway to serve the town of Thorne, South Yorkshire, England. It was situated near the town centre on the first stage of the canal-side line to Keadby, which was opened in September 1859. The new line left the original South Yorkshire Railway just before arriving at Thorne Waterside taking a right-handed junction towards the town centre. When the line opened this station was the terminus of the line. The canalside line fell out of use after new 'straightened' lines were opened in

neg: Sant Adrià de Besòs railway station northern terminus of routes and and is operated by TRAM. Although the Barcelona–Mataró Railway, the first railway line in the Iberian Peninsula, passed through Sant Adrià de Besòs, it did not have any kind of stop in the municipality when it was opened on . However, since several local factories were connected to the railway line, its opening was a major boost for the town’s economy. In 1888, with the opening of a steam tram line that travelled from Barcelona to Badalona, communications in the area were improved when a stop serving this new tram line was built in town.

neg: History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830 also built by William Jessop. It was the first line in Scotland to carry passengers. The line began life as a gauge waggonway and at first it was operated by horses, but in 1817 locomotive haulage was trialled, using one of Stephenson's locomotives. This was the first use of a steam locomotive in Scotland. The first steam railway locomotive was introduced by Richard Trevithick in 1804. He was the first engineer to build a successful high-pressure stationary steam engine, in 1799. He followed this with a road going steam carriage in 1801. Although that experiment ended in failure, in 1802

neg: Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway be the first steam powered railway to provide an inter-city passenger service, and the most expensive engineering project yet undertaken in Britain. (Because much of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway ran over land owned by investors in the company, and because many of the early locomotives were owned by the engineering firms which built them rather than by the L&M, it is impossible to give a precise figure for the L&M's construction costs. The direct construction cost of the line up to its opening was around £820,000, and the two years of lobbying necessary to get the railway authorised is

neg: Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway the words of industrialist and former British Rail chairman Peter Parker, "the world is a branch line of the pioneering Liverpool–Manchester run". Spurred by the L&M's success, within a month of its opening schemes were announced to link Liverpool and Manchester to other major cities, including London, Leeds, Birmingham and Bradford, uniting the key industrial centres of England. The London and Birmingham Railway (also built by George Stephenson), the first railway to link the north and south of England, was completed in 1838. By 1840 of track had been laid in Britain. The Railway Regulation Act 1844 limited passenger fares

neg: Great North of Scotland Railway and Banff from Inverurie were proposed when the Great North was first suggested, but failed because of the lack of financial support. A different route, from Milton Inveramsay, allowed for a shorter route with easier gradients. Unable to raise sufficient money for a line to the coast, a shorter line to was built. The Great North invested in the railway, and directors sat on the board of the Junction Railway. The new line, together with a junction station at , opened on 5 September 1857. A separate company, the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension Railway, built an extension to a

neg: Gedling and Carlton railway station due to mining subsidence and the heavy traffic through it. In 1925 part of the roof collapsed, blocking the line, and this was part of the reason that this section of line closed prematurely. The original station building is currently a owned by a youth group Gedling and Carlton railway station Gedling and Carlton railway station was a former railway station built to serve the villages of Gedling and Carlton in Nottinghamshire. It was opened by the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) on its Derbyshire Extension in 1875–6 and closed in 1960. It was on the climb from the junction

neg: Bristol Harbour Railway element of Bristol Industrial Museum using locomotives built in Bristol and formerly used at Avonmouth Docks. At first, it connected the museum with the SS "Great Britain", but when commercial rail traffic ceased in 1987 the museum railway expanded to use the branch alongside the New Cut. When the Portishead Railway was relaid the connection at Ashton Junction was severed. Today the railway operates on selected weekends on standard gauge track over . The railway is currently in use as far as B Bond Warehouse (home to the Create Centre and Bristol Archives), from the museum. On the south side

neg: Killin Railway Killin Railway The Killin Railway was a locally promoted railway line built to connect the town of Killin to the Callander and Oban Railway main line nearby. It opened in 1886, and carried tourist traffic for steamers on Loch Tay as well as local business. The directors and the majority of the shareholders were local people, and the little company retained its independence until 1923. When the adjacent main line closed in 1965, the Killin line closed too. On 1 June 1870, the Callander and Oban Railway opened the first portion of its line. Shortage of cash meant that the

neg: Biggar station Biggar station The Biggar station is a heritage railway station operated by Via Rail located in Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada. Biggar received its first railway service in 1907 when the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) built a branch line through the area. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) transcontinental railway project was built through Biggar the following year in 1908 and the GTP designated the town as a division point on the main line between the railway's eastern terminus at Winnipeg, Manitoba and the railway's western terminus at Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The town was named in honour of William Hodgins Biggar,

neg: Callander and Oban Railway authorised by Act of Parliament on 7 August 1896, but the West Highland scheme was subject to serious limitations, and that line was never built. The C&OR line was to have a triangular junction a Connel Ferry, and to cross Loch Etive by Connel Bridge which was second in Britain only to the Forth Bridge in length of the main span, and it was the largest single-span steel bridge in Britain. The route approved north of the bridge was later changed substantially, and a hotel was built at Loch Creran to serve a proposed station there; the hotel was never

neg: Exeter and Crediton Railway to Crediton was doubled form 2 June 1875. Broad gauge was abolished 20 May 1892. The line over Cowley Viaduct was singled on 28 November 1965, and the entire line was singled 16 December 1984. David St John Thomas, "A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain – Volume I – the West Country", David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1966 Exeter and Crediton Railway The Exeter and Crediton Railway was a broad gauge railway that linked Exeter and Crediton, Devon, England. It was 5¼ miles (8½ km) long. Although built in 1847, it was not opened until 12 May

neg: Redhill Tunnel Redhill Tunnel Redhill Tunnel is a railway tunnel passing under the eastern area of Redhill in Surrey, Great Britain. It is on the 'Quarry Line' section of the Brighton Main Line and was constructed in 1899. The tunnel is in length but abuts on to a covered way under the Redhill to Tonbridge Line and Redhill sidings, giving a total length of . There is another Redhill Tunnel on the Midland Main Line south of Trent Junction. The tunnel was built by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway as part of their line 'Quarry Line' designed to avoid the