• This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1857. January 13 – Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded U.S. patent 16,381 for a railroad...
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  • This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1858. April 13 – The Virginia Central Railroad begins operations through the Blue...
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  • article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1856. January – Opening throughout of first railroad in Africa and the Middle East, from...
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  • English railway contractor (d. 1857). June 22 – Joseph Pease, English railway promoter (d. 1872). Years in rail transport "Blaenafon.info". Archived from...
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    Rail transport in the Australian state of Victoria is provided by a number of railway operators who operate over the government-owned railway lines. The...
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    Rail transport in Lithuania consists of freight shipments and passenger services. The construction of the first railway line in Lithuania began in 1859...
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    greater Melbourne area. The metropolitan network is a suburban rail system designed to transport passengers from Melbourne's suburbs into the Melbourne central...
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    accelerated greatly due to the need for the transport of agricultural products and cattle in Buenos Aires Province. The rail network converged on the city of Buenos...
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    Rail transport in Greece has a history which began in 1869, with the completion of the then Athens & Piraeus Railway. From the 1880s to the 1920s, the...
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    Rail transport engineering, public transport engineering". Archived from the original on May 1, 2011. Retrieved October 30, 2010. "Slim to invest in Santa...
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    was part of the Public Transport Commission and from 1980, the State Rail Authority. In 1989, the SRA was split into CityRail, CountryLink and FreightCorp...
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  • Rail transport in Pakistan began in 1855 during the British Raj, when several railway companies began laying track and operating in present-day Pakistan...
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    history of rail transport in Denmark began in 1847 with the opening of a railway line between Copenhagen and Roskilde. The Kiel-Altona line in Holstein...
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    Rail transport in France dates from the first French railway in 1823 to present-day enterprises such as the AGV. France was a sluggard in building railways...
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  • extended rail lines on both Alderney and Guernsey There are currently no railway services on the island of Guernsey. The earlier transport system was...
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    city of Hamburg, Germany. History of rail transport History of rail transport in Great Britain Years in rail transport Timeline of United States railway...
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    Beckenham Junction station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 4)
    2010-2011. Transport for London. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2012. "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation....
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  • history of rail transport in Germany can be traced back to the 16th century. The earliest form of railways, wagonways, were developed in Germany in the 16th...
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  • This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1933. January – London Underground diagram designed by Harry Beck introduced to public...
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    Rail transport in Costa Rica is primarily under the stewardship of Incofer (Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles), an autonomous institution of the...
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    Desjardins Canal disaster (category Passenger rail transport in Ontario)
    Canal disaster was a rail transport disaster near Hamilton, Canada West. The train wreck occurred at 6:15 p.m. on March 12, 1857 (1857-03-12) when a train...
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    The history of rail transport in Norway had begun by 1805. Norway's first railway is believed to have been the 1,400 m (4,593 ft) long horse-powered Damtjern-Storflåtan...
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  • On 28 June 1857, two trains collided just east of Lewisham railway station in London, killing 11 and injuring 30 more. The 14-carriage 9:15pm from Strood...
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  • Rail transport in Christchurch, the largest city on New Zealand's South Island, consists of two main trunk railway lines intersecting in the suburb of...
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    Rail services around Adelaide are provided by a mixture of private and government-owned organisations. The Department for Infrastructure & Transport (DIT)...
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    History of rail transport in Russia. Russian Railways Official Site (in English and Russian) Steam on Sakhalin Island [2] Russian Railway in 1935 "A site...
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  • This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1883. January 10 – The Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway enters bankruptcy...
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  • This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1940. January 9 – The Østfold Line in Norway takes electric traction into use between...
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    is wedged into place by tightening its bolts during installation. In rail transport modelling, a fishplate is often a small copper or nickel silver plate...
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  • Lists of events in the history of rail transport are organised into the yearly lists below. Trains portal History of rail transport Timeline of railway...
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