An elevated railway or elevated train (also known as an el train or el for short) is a railway with the tracks above street level on a viaduct or other...
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Rapid transit (redirect from Elevated (railway))
or other vehicles. They are often grade-separated in tunnels or on elevated railways. Modern services on rapid transit systems are provided on designated...
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The Meigs Elevated Railway was an experimental but unsuccessful 19th century elevated steam-powered urban rapid transit system, often described as a monorail...
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The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) was a streetcar and rapid transit railroad operated on, above, and below, the streets of Boston, Massachusetts and surrounding...
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Elevated may refer to: Elevated (film), a short film by Canadian director Vincenzo Natali Elevated railway, a form of rapid transit railway with the tracks...
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IRT Third Avenue Line (redirect from New York Elevated Railway Company)
Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue Elevated, Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City....
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Elevated was an elevated railway around the east side of Downtown Boston, Massachusetts, providing a second route for the Boston Elevated Railway's Main...
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Elevated Railway can refer to one of: The IRT Sixth Avenue Line, a former elevated railway in New York City, or The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad...
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IRT Ninth Avenue Line (redirect from West Side Elevated Railway)
Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, was the first elevated railway in New York City. It opened in July 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, as...
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Wuppertal Schwebebahn (redirect from Wuppertal Suspension Railway)
System) named for its inventor, Eugen Langen. It is the oldest electric elevated railway with hanging cars in the world and is a unique system in Germany. Langen...
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Chicago "L" (redirect from Chicago Elevated Railways)
The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated") is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of...
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A suspension railway is a form of elevated monorail in which the vehicle is suspended from a fixed track (as opposed to a cable used in aerial tramways)...
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Viaduct (redirect from Railway viaduct)
consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road. Typically a viaduct connects two points of roughly equal elevation...
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The Western Railway Elevated Corridor, also known as the Oval Maidan-Virar elevated corridor, was a proposed rapid transit corridor that would have run...
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four-lane Dhaka Elevated Expressway route begins near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at Kawla and runs alongside the railway line through Tejgaon...
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after the first elevated railway in New York City; its Ninth Avenue El started operations on July 1, 1868, in Manhattan as an elevated cable car line....
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build Early engineering for elevated highways owes much to early elevated railway design, which preceded them. Elevated highways were first used to:...
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Brooklyn Bridge (redirect from Brooklyn Bridge Elevated Line)
several reconfigurations, having carried horse-drawn vehicles and elevated railway lines until 1950. To alleviate increasing traffic flows, additional...
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Indian Railways was commissioned. Opened in November 1995, Chennai MRTS became the first operational elevated railway line in India. Indian Railways operates...
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Market–Frankford Line (redirect from Market Street Elevated Passenger Railway)
City Transit. 1922. The first operating sections of the Frankford elevated railway and Bustleton surface line: a souvenir booklet giving a brief account...
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The Manhattan Railway Company was an elevated railway company in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City, United States. It operated four lines: the Second...
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Boston-area streetcar lines (redirect from Boston street railway)
in 1900. In 1897 the recently-formed Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) took over the West End Street Railway in order to make the streetcar lines part of...
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the line emerges to an elevated section via a ramp east of the Kleiststraße/Courbierestraße intersection. The elevated railway reaches its full height...
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The Milan Exposition Elevated Railway (Italian: Ferrovia sopraelevata dell'Esposizione di Milano) was a temporary elevated railway in Milan, Italy, constructed...
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The Kings County Elevated Railway Company (KCERy) was a builder and operator of elevated railway lines in Kings County, New York. Kings County is now...
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an electrified standard gauge railway with elevated, at-grade, and depressed sections. The 56-kilometer (35-mile) railway will run from Solis station in...
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it leased its entire line to the Boston Elevated Railway. It was formally consolidated into the Boston Elevated in 1922. The original purpose of the West...
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History of the BRT and BMT (redirect from Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad)
1923–1940) operated rapid transit lines in New York City — at first only elevated railways and later also subways. Until 1907, these lines were leased to the...
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Junction began on May 5, 1903. (The line operated over the Boston Elevated Railway in Brookline and Boston; these trackage rights had been granted in...
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El train or L Train may refer to: An Elevated railway The Chicago "L", a rapid transit system The Market–Frankford Line in Philadelphia, commonly called...
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