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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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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Rapid transit (redirect from Elevated (railway))
grade-separated on elevated railways, in which case some are referred to as el trains – short for "elevated" – or skytrains. Rapid transit systems are railways, usually...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lackawanna Railway (reporting mark: EL), US Elevated railway Chicago "L", the rapid transit system in Chicago, US El, one name of the elevated railway system...
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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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Third Avenue Elevated refers to the following elevated railways: The defunct IRT Third Avenue Line in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City The defunct...
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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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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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Wuppertal Schwebebahn (redirect from Wuppertal Suspension Railway)
Single-Rail Hanging Railway, System of Eugen Langen) named after its inventor, Eugen Langen. It is the oldest electric elevated railway with hanging cars...
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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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JFK/UMass station (category Railway stations in Boston)
station building opened in 1868 and was rebuilt in 1883. The Boston Elevated Railway began construction of Columbia station on the Dorchester Extension...
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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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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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where it connected with the Commonwealth Avenue line of the Boston Elevated Railway. The latter line did not opened until August 15, 1896; omnibuses were...
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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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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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Street Railway originally ran into downtown Boston via the Chelsea Bridge and Warren Bridge, running over tracks of the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy)...
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