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  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)

  
 Rail Transportation; An Historical Military Study, Quartermaster Review 1927   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
THE purpose of this brief sketch is to show the humble origin of rail transportation, the mistakes that have occurred in railway operation for military purposes, the present high state of its development and its effect on the strategy of warfare.
Transportation is the corner-stone upon which the whole structure of modern civilization is reared; and the corner-stone could not be laid until the railroad was produced.
The most notable achievement of the rail transportation division of the Quartermaster General's office during the year 1865, was the transportation to their homes of the Armies of the West and of the Potomac after their review by the President and his Cabinet.
www.qmfound.com /rail.htm   (3690 words)

  
 Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park: History Timeline
The telegraph is invented in 1846 and is used for communication on canals and railroad lines.
The connection of the east and west coasts by rail is celebrated in 1869.
It is used to transport ships and troops during the Spanish-American War and World War I. The feeder canal closes in 1913.
www.dandrcanal.com /timeline.html   (1083 words)

  
 Transportation History in Vermont   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
However, the Central Vermont Rail Depot remained and became the lifeline of the town once again at the end of the 19th century, when Northfield's booming granite industry relied on the rails to ship their products.
Rail lines were connected there in 1875 and 1888, resulting in a major expansion of the local granite industry.
Barre's quarries were finally able to transport large amounts of stone to distant markets, fostering the greatest population and economic boom in the city's history.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/centralvermont/transport1.htm   (995 words)

  
 1846 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport
1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
You can find it there under the keyword 1846 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1846)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1846andaction=history).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1846   (708 words)

  
 SIDE - Online Information article about SIDE
rail rope by an endless hauling rope at an average speed of 4 to 6 m.
These towers may be constructed either of wood or iron, and if the exigencies of the work render it desirable, they may be mounted on trolleys and rails, in which case the cableway is rendered portable, and can be moved about, sometimes a great advantage in excavating work.
Thus the telpher is a self-propelled electric carrier running on a mono-rail, which, according to the conditions, may be a steel rail or a steel cable.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SIDE.html   (5308 words)

  
 Woonsocket's Railroads
Prior to the railroad, freight was transported by horse and wagon or by the Blackstone Canal.
Completed in 1846, the Providence and Worcester was financed by Rhode Island businessmen who were interested in keeping Blackstone River Valley goods flowing through the Port of Providence.
The P&W's Woonsocket depot was one of the finest on-line stations in New England and made Depot Square the commercial and transportation hub of the city.
www.woonsocket.org /railroads.html   (681 words)

  
 Getting There : Land3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Most rail lines connected with ports, reflecting the importance of shipping to the New England economy.
Most rail construction was concentrated inland rather than along the coast.
All towns were not accessible by rail, however, so stagecoaches were still needed as links.
www.pilgrimhall.org /gettingthere4.htm   (343 words)

  
 Rail Europe: DB
Berlin’s history partially explains the necessity to re-think and re-build its rail network, as rail services were part of the whole scheme to keep East and West Germany separate.
Tilting trains take the existing lines into consideration in their design and therefore are designed to “tilt” in sharp bends, so that passengers on board can enjoy speed without being thrown against the sides of the train in sharp bends.
Rail Europe’s German Railpass is the ideal means of moving between cities, efficiently and smoothly.
raileurope.typepad.com /info/db   (3131 words)

  
 Ireland's Railway Systems
A heading or gallery was hewn in the rock from the side of the cliff, 50 ft. in length, at the end of which a shaft was sunk for 22 ft. to the level of the railway.
This battery is used for road and rail transport, and has operated eighty-ton suburban passenger trains on the Great Southern Railways for several years without one failure.
Through rail communication between Belfast and Londonderry was, however, not established until the completion of the viaduct over the River Bann at Coleraine in 1860.
mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r051.html   (9156 words)

  
 Ipswich Transport Museum
Preserving the transport heritage of Ipswich since 1965, and now supported by the Friends of the Ipswich Transport Museum.
The introduction of cheap mass produced road trucks for military use, coupled with the training of thousands of men to drive them, produced another transport revolution as significant as the coming of the railways in the first place.
A group of Ipswich people led by John Chevalier Cobbold (of the local brewing family) obtained an Act of Parliament on 19th July 1844 authorising the Eastern Union Railway to be built from Colchester to Ipswich.
www.ipswichtransportmuseum.co.uk /hrail.htm   (1095 words)

  
 Network Rail - Edinburgh Waverley
The station was first opened in 1846 and was rebuilt between 1892-1902.
Payphones are located on the main concourse, inside the main hall, at the entrance to the toilets, and on platforms 7, 11 and 14.
First aid is available at the Network Rail Reception, or by asking for assistance from a member of the station staff.
www.networkrail.co.uk /aspx/807.aspx   (827 words)

  
 Early Railroads of New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The road was opened from Auburn to Geddes with wooden rails, June 8, 1838, at which date Sherwood's stage horses were put upon the line between Auburn and Geddes, and continued to draw the cars till June 4, 1839, when the "iron horse" was put on in their place.
The charter was amended April 20th, 1837, so as to increase the capital stock $1,000,000, and authorized the directors to borrow to the amount of $400,000 for the completion of the road, and to secure the loan by a mortgage upon the property and stock of the company.
The company reported in 1846, that the cost of construction of six miles of road from the south side of Harlem River Bridge to Williams Bridge was $38,475 per mile, while its thirteen miles of road from Williams Bridge only cost $11,177 per mile.
www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/abnyrr.Html   (7737 words)

  
 INDEPENDENCE TO THE CIVIL WAR: 1776-1861
David Wilmot of Bradford County became a national figure in 1846 by his presentation in Congress of the Wilmot Proviso opposing slavery's extension, and his action was supported almost unanimously by the Pennsylvania Assembly.
Rail transport began in 1827, operated at first by horse power or cables.
In miles of rail and in total capital invested in railroads, Pennsylvania led all other states on the eve of the Civil War.
www.legis.state.pa.us /WU01/VC/visitor_info/pa_history/III.htm   (4035 words)

  
 Ports, freight and logistics - Rail gauge standardisation
The Government is working with Pacific National, the leaseholder of the State's country rail network, to implement State projects and determine investment priorities for the network including consideration of standardising key rail freight corridors.
In addition, the Governmernt is working with the Australian Rail Track Corporation to implement a $40 million AusLink project which will improve the capacity of the standard gauge network in Melbourne's inner west by removing bottlenecks and providing additional tracks.
Rail gauge standardisation is forecast to deliver benefits to rail freight customers by improving the competitiveness of rail freight services.
www.doi.vic.gov.au /Doi/Internet/Freight.nsf/AllDocs/9D34AAC64459BE5BCA256E0500052305?OpenDocument   (729 words)

  
 19c rail transport
The stage-coach was superceded by rail traffic in the 1830s.
Although the railways generated a much increased volume of traffic, it was equally true that competition with the railways continued to increase varieties of horse-drawn traffic in the form of passenger cabs,
Much of the transport both of passengers and freight serviced the railways but large numbers were in direct competition.
www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~city19c/viccity/railandtrans.html   (949 words)

  
 Halifax County, Virginia, History
The success of the B&O Railroad as a transportation link for the farmers and expanding regional markets convinced a majority of legislators that railroad construction was not only viable, but necessary for the economic health of the Commonwealth.
Though the transport of hospital patients and prisoners added to the R&D railroad's use, they were a minor part of the large increase in traffic volume promulgated by the war.
Virginia's transportation networks were one of the main Union targets during the war, and by 1865 were in ruins.
www.oldhalifax.com /county/historicalMonograph.htm   (11972 words)

  
 Netherlands 'light-rail' projects 2003
In theory it includes rail transport, but in practice it means a busway, or simply express buses on ordinary roads.
This is the transport-policy context of official ‘light rail’ proposals in the Netherlands.
Rail use by typical new-town populations is low, and this does not help.
www.rinbad.free-online.co.uk /nl_light.htm   (11223 words)

  
 Hot News!
To prevent future passenger rail accidents, the FRA is conducting pilot projects with commuter railroads in Florida and Virginia to identify potential collision hazards on their systems and developing reasonable ways to address them.
After sitting in a rail yard in Maine for several years, the Pullman’s paint had faded and its wheels were red with rust from lack of use.
BNSF is among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, transports the components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough low-sulphur coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States.
railpace.com /hotnews   (17700 words)

  
 HSPA - The Iron Works
In 1846 the firm changed its name to Reeves, Buck and Company, indicating a fresh source of capital had been incorporated in the person of Robert S. Buck of Bridgeton.
Other additions in 1846 included a puddling furnace, a reheating mill, flsmiths shops, a foundry, a pattern shop, and a machine shop.
They were used in an engineering wonder known as the Kinzua Viaduct to transport trains over the Kinzua Valley in Pennsylvania.
www.phxsg.org /hspa/iron_works.html   (1131 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Historic rail firm 'could return'
Industry magazine Rail says a franchise styled on LNWR could emerge from plans to merge several operators running on the West Coast Main Line.
The proposals would see the number of rail franchises reduced from 25 to 16 by 2011, the magazine reports.
A spokesman for the Strategic Rail Authority pointed out that there was "no definitive plan at this stage and no decisions have been taken".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3652340.stm   (350 words)

  
 Transport Statistics
The statistical tables cover all the main branches of transport: road traffic, public transport, water transport, air travel, together with general and cross modal tables dealing with freight transport, passenger casualty rates etc., and energy and environment statistics covering carbon dioxide emissions etc., many giving data for 5 or 10-year periods.
Finally there are selected historical series, for instance road accidents and casualties from 1926 to the present, freight transport by mode from 1952, and households with regular use of cars from 1951.
Current Statistics Collection 42 (HA155), edited by B. Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press in 1988, is a very useful compendium with a chapter on transport and communications covering a wide variety of topics from the earliest available statistics (1572 in the case of English shipping tonnage) up to 1980 in most cases.
www.lse.ac.uk /library/statistics/Transport_Statistics.htm   (1667 words)

  
 Victorian Society - History 1837 to 1901   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Victorian prosperity for an elite was built on the development of new machinery, new work methods and an underpaid workforce consisting of adults and children living in wretched poverty.
Rail towns such as Crewe soon developed as main rail junctions.
By 1846 all carriages had to be roofed by law.
www.fashion-era.com /victorians.htm   (1016 words)

  
 Albany Area Railroads -- History & Context, Mohawk & Hudson Chapter, National Railway Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
While the Mohawk River was also a transportation conduit, it was not until the Erie Canal was constructed under Governor DeWitt Clinton in the 1820's that transportation to and from the west of the Capital District progressed substantially.
To overcome these obstacles and to facilitate water transportation, canals were built paralleling the rivers and using them as a source of their water supply, eg.
On the open or private right of way there was exposed third rail running along the track on the outside of one of the running rails and elevated a little in distance from the ground so the third rail shoes of the electric cars and locomotives could slide along it.
www.crisny.org /not-for-profit/railroad/capdist.htm   (6312 words)

  
 ebrr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The rail line connected with the Mount Savage line at the West end of the Narrows.
The rail line was extended to the Hoffman mines in 1859.
During the Civil War, the rail line was most probably used to transport supplies to the Military Hospital facility at Clarysville.
home.comcast.net /~phstakem/rr/TQC/EBRR.html   (1768 words)

  
 Network Rail - Euston
The station was extended west in 1846 and the Drummond Street offices opened in the same year.
The present station was designed by British Rail’s Midland regional architect, R. Moorcroft and team, and was opened by Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1968.
The station reception can provide you with information about disabled access, local transport links, parking and station facilities (including left luggage, public toilets, bicycle racks, shops and restaurants).
www.networkrail.co.uk /aspx/819.aspx   (1053 words)

  
 The Holocaust FAQ : Operation Reinhard: A Layman's Guide (1/2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There was also a narrow-gauge railroad which ran from the rail platform directly to the burial trenches; it was used to transport those who arrived too ill or too weak to make it on their own, and for those who had died in transit.
Then the situation changed, the pace of transports increased, and there were days when 10,000 to 12,000 deportees arrived, including thousands who had died en route and others in a state of exhaustion.
This state of affairs disrupted the "quiet welcome" designed to deceive the deportees into believing they had arrived at a transit station and that before continuing their journey to a labour camp they must be disinfected.
www.fascism.com /holocaust-faq.htm   (3498 words)

  
 Roads & Transport
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.
On the 14th December 1843 work commenced on the bridge but this was interrupted by threats and violence from men instructed by the Clarence owners.
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)

  
 Transport
To James Chambers belongs the honour of pioneering the colony's first public conveyance, a "modest venture" comprising a spring cart drawn by two horses which conveyed people to and from Port Adelaide; he also owned the pioneer cab of the colony, having a stand in Hindley Street.
As his business grew he ran coaches to Gawler and in April 1846 he advertised the introduction of a service to Burra following the opening of the "monster mine".
Leaving the post office in Adelaide at two o'clock in the afternoon the coach proceeded across a bridge at Thebarton to the Grand Junction, crossed the Gawler Plains and arrived at Gawler at seven o'clock in the evening where passengers put up for the night at Calton's Old Spot Hotel.
www.slsa.sa.gov.au /manning/adelaide/trans/misc.htm   (1110 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)

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