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  Portal:Trains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In rail transport, a train consists of a single or many connected rail vehicles that are capable of being moved together along a guideway to transport freight or passengers from one place to another along a planned route.
Although the network has characteristics of light rail, such as the type of rolling stock used, the system is more akin to a rapid transit system.
While this forms a comprehensive transportation system serving many parts of Metro Manila, the system has only been partially successful in decongesting the very busy thoroughfare, which is further aggravated by the rising number of motor vehicles in the metropolis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Trains   (1261 words)

  
 Railroad
Though the rail system was extremely slow at first and prohibitively expensive to build and run, the British were not to be dissuaded in their pursuit of non-animal driven transportation.
The most advanced mode of transportation prior to the introduction of the rail system was the horse drawn omnibus on a track, called a tram.
Some rails were still made of wood, others iron and the first trains traveled at the pace of 3.5 miles per hour, significantly slower than the horse drawn coach which traveled at a speed of 9-10 miles per hour.
www.gober.net /victorian/reports/railroad.html   (1783 words)

  
 Mass transport : Philippines : Gov.Ph : Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the recent transport strike, the most obvious victims are the masses and the strikers themselves.
Those who have their own means of transportation were hardly affected by the strike.
If there is an efficient transport system, workers and their families need not flock to the center of Manila.
www.gov.ph /forum/thread.asp?rootID=33548&catID=11   (1847 words)

  
 ::transport::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The new manufacturing class - those who needed an improved transport system to move their finished products around - were pleased as they had most to gain.
The owners of the colliery decided to build a rail line from Stockton to Darlington so that they could move their coal to a large market with more ease.
rail travel, despite the investment made into making rail lines, was 50% cheaper than coach travel.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /transport.htm   (2219 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 2004 in rail transport
railroad RAILROAD [railroad] or railway, form of transportation most commonly consisting of steel rails, called tracks, on which freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock are drawn by one locomotive or more.
Japanese rail manufacturers are also hoping for the opportunity to impress new export markets with their technology.
Brighter future for Australia rail: the long-awaited sale of National Rail and FreightCorp has put the future of Australia rail on a firmer footing.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=2004+in+rail+transport   (755 words)

  
 Slate Transport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Padarn tramway for Dinorwig Quarry was completed in 1843, and the railways to Porth Penrhyn and Y Felinheli were completed by 1852.  Of course, with the extension of the national rail network the tonnage of slates carried on the railways increased greatly.
The Ffestiniog railway was opened in 1836 with a 2 foot gauge using horse and gravity.
However, with the subsequent decline of the rail industry slate loads are today carried by road.
www.llechicymru.info /ITransport.english.htm   (460 words)

  
 1836 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport
1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
You can find it there under the keyword 1836 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1836)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1836andaction=history).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1836   (957 words)

  
 Network Rail - London Bridge
London Bridge is the oldest station in London and was first opened in 1836.
British Rail undertook large scale rebuilding and a new station opened on 15 September 1978.
The 1978 redevelopment was undertaken by N. Wikeley, regional architect for British Rail Southern.
www.networkrail.co.uk /aspx/909.aspx   (712 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Will the Channel Tunnel Rail Link restore our faith in the railways?
The target date is rushing up fast to meet them: from 2007, the trains of Eurostar are meant to be shooting through these subterranean passages like supercharged electric eels passing under sewers and water mains, tube lines and gas pipes, at the end of their journeys from Paris and Brussels.
A further, and crucial, factor has been that some of the key players in the construction project, including Bechtel, have agreed, in effect, to take on a waiver if there are delays and cost overruns, paying some of the costs themselves: this has concentrated their own minds, and reassured their insurers.
Architects working on the Channel rail project, he says, "were under pressure at one time from the office of the deputy prime minister to design what they call 'icons' instead of stations.
www.guardian.co.uk /transport/Story/0,2763,1493487,00.html   (2974 words)

  
 National Railway Museum Port Adelaide - Rail History
Governor Hindmarsh arrived in 1836 at a time when technological advances in agriculture and transport were to play a large role in the development of South Australia.
The final boundary of land under the plough and the extent of the rail system is largely south of the 254 mm isohyet.
From 1906, cheaply constructed rail lines were pushed throughout the Murray Lands and from 1907 on Eyre Peninsula, purely to encourage agricultural settlement.
www.natrailmuseum.org.au /common/nrm_a01_index.html   (2112 words)

  
 Ulster Folk & Transport Museum : Search : Areas Of Interest : Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland
The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum holds material of national and international importance, cared for and managed by specialist curatorial and conservation staff.
Rail Transport The Irish Railway collection is one of the finest in Europe.
The value of photographs as integral to the collections of the museum was accepted from the beginning of the museum's development and consequently, over the past forty plus years, the archive has...
www.uftm.org.uk /search/areas_of_interest?area=History   (1965 words)

  
 Early Transport
Although Kensington was not an industrial area the new forms of transport of industrial England soon touched the parish.
In 1836 the canal was sold to the West London Railway and drained.
Improved rail and road links led to the decline of canal and river transportation, and the steamships ceased operation in 1908.
www.rbkc.gov.uk /vmhistory/general/vm_hs_p08.asp   (284 words)

  
 Growth of London's Transport
First, the railway entered London as a means of communication with the rest of Great Britain ; then the suburban network began to be created ; afterwards came the underground railway as a purely short-distance means of communication.
As late as 1800 there was still only one canal entering the city, because the Government forbade coal to be carried to the capital except by sea.
The pioneer tram line between the Marble Arch and Notting Hill Gate, which was opened in 1861 with so much pomp and ceremony and feasting, was taken up very soon afterwards, partly because the projecting rail flanges were found to be a source of inconvenience to other road users.
mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r054.html   (3157 words)

  
 Taunton Branch Rail Road Corporation - Massachusetts 1836
In New England the pioneering railroad lines of the 1830s and 1840s were improvements to existing transportation systems like turnpikes and stagecoach routes.
Most rail lines connected with ports, reflecting the importance of shipping to the New England economy.
All towns were not accessible by rail, however, so stagecoaches were still needed as links.
www.scripophily.net /taunbranrail.html   (801 words)

  
 The London Underground
<3> There was a lack of direct rail services (railroad lines which connected with each other to give a passenger direct access to his destination); the solution to this problem was the idea for a succession of main line stations linked by an underground railway.
Traffic in the inner city would be relieved, all markets would experience an increase in business because they could be more easily reached by the public, and it fit in with the city's improvement scheme by clearing out the unsanitary slum areas with railway lines.
Not only would the Victorian public have lost a method of transportation, but future generations would have been denied references to a metaphor of motion which fascinated the Victorians and permeated their art and literature.
www.loyno.edu /~history/journal/1989-0/ladart.htm   (2676 words)

  
 Roads & Transport
In 1835 the Clarence Coach Co. was formed and passengers were conveyed by horse drawn wagons from Stockton to the Clarence Inn at Coxhoe, a service which ran twice a day.
In 1852 the line was extended from Billingham to West Hartlepool, and the name changed to the West Hartlepool and Harbour Railway Co. In 1861 John Snowdon was a crossing keeper who occupied a small cabin at the railway crossing on the Thinford road between Cornforth Lane and Metal Bridge.
The next great advance in transport came in the early part of this century with the invention of the motor car, but this mode of transport was beyond the means of the ordinary working men until buses arrived.
www.cornforth.org.uk /roads.htm   (2013 words)

  
 Canada By Rail: Welcome
The evening will be animated as an early railway shareholders’ meeting, when investors were being asked to put their money into this newly-developed form of transport.
A meal based on 1836 menus will continue the historical theme.
The Honorary President of the evening will be Sean Finn, Vice-President of CN; Chairman of the Board of the Railway Association of Canada, and Mayor of St. Lambert.
www.canadabyrail.ca /newsItems/Newsitems-En/06_02_08_170th.html   (114 words)

  
 RAIL#TEC - SERVICE
For more details, please refer to the draft of the federal motorway connections.
By local public transport or short-distance rail traffic
The U45 provides you with a direct connection from the main station of Dortmund to the fair, congress and event centre of the Westfalenhallen.
www.railtec.de /e/1836   (192 words)

  
 Railroad Collections
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection BP Collection includes the papers of Albert Earling, president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company; his daughter, Harriet Earling Dake; and Lawrence Fitch, Mrs.
The TMERandT sold its property to the Milwaukee Suburban Transport Corporation in 1952, and went out of existence in 1963.
Includes records of organizations of which Mowry was an officer: the Citizens Civic Council of Milwaukee County and the Property Owners and Renters Association of Milwaukee concerning such items as electric railroads, coal supply, and a water filtration plant; and a 1922 letter from the Federal Trade Commission concerning food and coal prices.
www.uwm.edu /Library/arch/rail.htm   (1396 words)

  
 Transport Web Directory search results
King's Cross is the London terminus for the east coast main line.
The station was first opened in 1854 and has recently benefited from a major redevelopment.
The present station was opened by British Rail in 1958 and was built on the original Gatwick racecou…
www.transportweb.com /directory/search.php?category=608   (166 words)

  
 World Rail Transit List
These criteria work relatively well among the limited North American examples but break down when they are applied to the diversity of systems in Europe or elsewhere.
CR - Commuter Rail (Regional rail, suburban rail, S-bahn,...)
Installations not part of urban or suburban common carrier passenger transport (private use, rural lines, museums, etc) and facilities confined within a complex, institution, amusement park, airport, or other non-"public" space should not be included on this list.
home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~wyatt/rail-transit-list.html   (2275 words)

  
 METIS CULTURE 1836-1847
Esabelle Chabeau, Ottawa Metis, b-February, 1836, Grand River, daughter, Louis Chebeau, Ottawa Metis and Elizabeth Chebeau, Ottawa Metis, b-1806 Mackinac, listed March 28, 1836 treaty.
Red River was becoming more drawn towards the American economic sphere, as they developed their steamer, rail and postal service to St. Paul, Chippewa Country on the Mississippi River.
The proposed 1836 treaty to the Ottawa and Chippewa, by the Unites States Government, proposed four classes of people in the Lake Superior region.
www.agt.net /public/dgarneau/metis41.htm   (9537 words)

  
 1836 Biography,info
October 2, Charles Darwin returns from his voyage around the world.
October 2 - Charles Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle with biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
October 31 - Bristol riot - see 1836 in the United Kingdom.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_1836   (734 words)

  
 Plurabelle - Transport
A Study of Apathy and the Democratic Process in the Transport and General Workers Union.
Hawkins, E K : Road Transport in Nigeria: A Study of African Enterprise.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery (ISROMAC-3).
www.plurabelle.co.uk /catalog/transp.html   (8641 words)

  
 RailroadData.Com Railroad Links: Books: Page 2
Karen's Books brings you the best transportation books available at the best prices.
You may find all types of transportation books like airplanes, automobiles, buses, motorcycles, tractors, trains, trucks, and more.
UK dealer of Transport related publications, and railway in particular.
www.railroaddata.com /rrlinks/Books/more2.html   (1064 words)

  
 Transport Canada Youth Zone - Transport Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Take the Transportation challenge and play some other games while you're here.
Built in 1836, it was a wobbly piece of work that ran on wooden rails.
To learn more, visit A Milleninum of Transportation in Canada.
www.tc.gc.ca /youth/menu.htm   (106 words)

  
 Ightham - Transport
Ightham is served by the Arriva 222 Bus service which runs from Vigo to Tonbridge calling outside and opposite the George and Dragon Public House in the centre of the village.
There are good rail services to London from both Borough Green which is mainly served by London Victoria and Sevenoaks which is served by Charing Cross, Waterloo East and London Bridge.
Here you can find an excellent interactive timetable.
www.ightham.org /transport.htm   (167 words)

  
 Find Articles in Journal of Transport History, The: Mar 2001
Articles in Mar 2001 issue of Journal of Transport History, The
Around the Coast and across the Seas: The Story of James Fisher and Sons
Economics of Transport: The Swedish case, 1780-1980, The
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3884/is_200103   (215 words)

  
 Plurabelle - Transport
Szostak, Rick: The Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution.
Stevens, Handley: Transport Policy in the European Union.
Hawkins, E K: Road Transport in Nigeria: A Study of African Enterprise.
www.plurabelle.co.uk /catalog/transport.html   (10122 words)

  
 Ulster Folk & Transport Museum : Ulster Folklife : Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum : Ulster Folklife : Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland
Settle Beds in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 31
Irish Folk-Song Recordings, 1966-1972: an index of tapes in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 21
www.uftm.org.uk /ulster_folklife?all=1   (2748 words)

  
 Timetable: Newry, (NIR) Rail Station - Bangor, (NIR) Rail Station - Service 2
Timetable: Newry, (NIR) Rail Station - Bangor, (NIR) Rail Station - Service 2
Where 'N' precedes the holiday name or number, it denotes
D after a time means stops to set down only.
www.translink.co.uk /present/NIR_1_I.asp   (66 words)

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