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	barcelona metropolitan transport
		The organisational model of public transport is based on the identification of three large sections or levels, whose basic characteristics correspond to elements and functions laid down in the ISOTOPE project of the European Union, which examines the regulatory framework for public transport in large cities.
		The participation of public transport in the corridor/axes varies greatly according to the capacity of the infrastructures and the demographic importance of the capital of the axis.
		In this period the urban transport of the eighteen municipalities of the MTE was metropolitanised, as were the municipal companies Transports de Barcelona, S.A. and Ferrocarril Metropolità de Barcelona, S.A. The third period began with the creation of the MTA as a consortium of the Generalitat, Barcelona City Council and the MTE.
	www.bcn.es /publicacions/b_mm/abmm_transport (16860 words)

	SIDE - Online Information article about SIDE
		rail rope by an endless hauling rope at an average speed of 4 to 6 m.
		Telpherage.—A telpher ropeway or cableway may be defined as a ropeway or cableway worked and controlled electrically, only a rail rope being required besides the live rail or wire from which the electric current is taken.
		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)

	USA-Presidents.Info - William McKinley Third State of the Union Address
		Following the termination on January 20, 1899, by Mexico of the convention of extradition of December 11, 1861, a new treaty more in accordance with the ascertained needs of both countries was signed February 22, 1899, and exchanged in the City of Mexico on the 22d of April last.
		To promote the disarmament of the Cuban volunteer army, and in the interest of public peace and the welfare of the people, the sum Of $75 was paid to each Cuban soldier borne upon the authenticated rolls, on condition that he should deposit his arms with the authorities designated by the United States.
		By the act of March 2, 1899, Congress gave authority to increase the Regular Army to a maximum not exceeding 65,000 enlisted men, and to enlist a force of 5,000 volunteers, to be recruited from the country at large.
	www.usa-presidents.info /union/mckinley-3.html (16601 words)

	1899 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		1896 1897 1898 - 1899 - 1900 1901 1902
		1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
		You can find it there under the keyword 1899 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1899andaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1899 (1146 words)

	Timeline 1898-1899
		In 1899 Winston Churchill published "The River War, An Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan." This was the 1st use of the machine gun in battle.
		1899 May 30, Irving G. Thalberg, legendary MGM production executive, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. 1899 May, "The stock market is in the nature of a barometer which reflects the rise and fall of general conditions," so said Charles Dow in a WSJ column.
		1899 Sep, The USS Charleston engaged in shellfire upon Subic Bay in the Philippines.
	timelines.ws /1898_1899.HTML (9218 words)

	Refrigerated Transportation Timeline
		Most of the early refrigerated transport of perishable goods was carried out by ship and by train.
		Henry Peyton Howard (1829-1913) of the United States transported a shipload of beef frozen in a salt-ice mixture from Indianola, Texas, to New Orleans and served it in hospitals, hotels and restaurants.
		Transport from California to NY averaged 12 days in 1900.
	www33.brinkster.com /iiiii/inventions/reftranstimeline.asp (1291 words)

	Transport
		November 26, 1832 - public transportation began in New York City; fare of 12-1/2 cents; three non-connecting compartments, each able to carry ten passengers, rode on iron wheels along iron rails laid in the middle of the road.
		H.W. Stewart, then the General Manager of Burlington Transportation Company, to found an umbrella association of privately-owned and independent carriers to increase passenger traffic between and within members' respective territories; newly-organized association operated under name Trailways; served 24,023 miles of routes, principally in the Midwest.
		Transportation Research; Information Services (TRIS) Http://Tris.Amti.Com/Search.Cfm Database is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information." (400,000 bibliographic records).
	www.kipnotes.com /Transport.htm (3336 words)

	History of Light Rail
		In the major conurbations Passenger Transport Authorities were created to take over responsibility for operation and development of the network, and they were soon commissioning studies to determine the place of public transport in land-use transportation planning, and options for the future.
		Light rail is not a rigid concept, but a flexible mode that fits between the bus and the heavy metro or conventional railway, and can behave like either of them as well.
		Trams and light rail can cover the whole spectrum of public transport provision, and international experience of 350 systems worldwide confirms that this is the most successful intermediate mode, with over 100 years of development behind it, yet incorporating the latest technology for the future.
	www.lrta.org /mrthistory.html (4381 words)

	Across Africa by Rail
		The Benguela Railway, which has made this new Atlantic all-rail route possible, is due to British enterprise and capital, used in co-operation with the Portuguese, and owes its existence to the foresight and perseverance of a Briton, Sir Robert Williams, one of the makers of modern Africa.
		OVER 3,000 MILES of sea and rail transport were avoided by the building of the Benguela Railway.
		Produce is now taken by rail from Katanga to Port Francqui, put aboard river steamers and taken down to Kasai River to Leopoldville, where it is again hauled by rail to Matadi and shipped direct to Europe.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r011.html (5624 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Hot Topics - Transport
		Rail fares in the UK are now the third highest in Europe
		Even the government admits Britain's road and rail network is amongst the worst in Europe
		Although the rail network employs 130,000 people, it has a shortage of skilled engineers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/hottopics/transport/index.shtml (550 words)

	Transport, defence
		The majority of Australia’s rail network was laid down in the second half of the 19th century by colonies independent of each other and trading primarily with Great Britain.
		Another legacy is the four different rail gauges found in the states; some states have more than one gauge.
		National Rail, a federal corporation, began operations in 1993, with the aim of taking over interstate freight operations and ownership of federal rail assets.
	www.australia-migration.com /page/Transport_defence/236 (807 words)

	RailPage Australia
		All metropolitan services including light rail, as well as all country and interstate services are covered.
		Freight carried over the interstate rail network in Victoria, South Australia and into Western Australia reached a new high during May and continues to rise at a rate outstripping national economic growth.
		Australian Rail Track Corporation Ltd (ARTC) has welcomed today's announcement by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that the voluntary Access Undertaking it has given, for that part of the interstate rail network under its control, has been approved.
	www.railpage.org.au (1141 words)

	Complete Guide to South Africa - Northern Cape Kimberley
		Designed by Sir Herbert Baker and built with granite from the Matopo Hills in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), the memorial commemorates the defenders of the town who died during the Siege of Kimberley in 1899 and 1900.
		The Transport Hall contains an assortment of late 19-century vehicles, and De Beers Hall houses a display of uncut diamonds, stones of different colours and items of jewelry.
		A refurbished vintage tram dating from the early 1900's transports passengers from the City Hall to the Mine Museum every hour.
	www.southafricatraveler.com /northerncape/kimberley.htm (1141 words)

	Pyle National Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pyle National offers the broadest choice of interconnectors for rail and mass transportation, and has a long history of providing interconnect solutions to the global rail industry.
		The relationship goes back to 1899, when the founder of the company, George C Pyle, developed turbine generators to operate railroad engine headlights in the United States.
		Our many customers include the LUL Central, Jubilee and Northern Lines and Electro-Star in the UK, Irish Rail, Strasbourg Tram in France, ICE in Germany, Porto Tram in Portugal, Long Island Rail Road M7 EMI and New York City Transport in the USA, and the Express train Bejing-Shanghai-Chagzhou in China.
	www.pylenational.co.uk /rail.html (346 words)

	Line facts - Transport for London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The PPP contract was signed with Metronet Rail BCV to upgrade, renew and maintain the Bakerloo line.
		Tunnelling began in February 1899 towards Baker Street, and in March 1900 towards Waterloo.
		A third Act of Parliament in August 1899 allowed the line to terminate at Addington St., allowing for an improved Depot and power station.
	www.tfl.gov.uk /tube/company/linefacts?line=bakerloo (1734 words)

	A Trossachs Transport Guide, Scotland
		Callander has a wide range of transport services available allowing the visitor to not only see The Trossachs and surrounding areas, but also make day trips to Stirling, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
		She was delivered in pieces by barge up Loch Lomond then overland by horse and cart from Inversnaid to Stronachlachar where she was launched in 1899.
		Loch Katrine is the jewel in the heart of breath taking landscape and a cruise on this vessel is not to be missed.
	www.lenymede.demon.co.uk /transport.html (922 words)

	[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Resources on the Web
		Bharat Vohra and Siddharth Joshi's Rail In India has IR pictures, including some photos of the last steam operations in India, and pictures of various classes of locomotives.
		World Rail Gen is a mailing list for discussion of railways (generally other than the European mainland).
		uk.railway is focused on rail in the United Kingdom, but sometimes has discussion of IR (mostly in a historical context), and of locos from India that have been restored in the UK.
	irfca.org /faq/faq-web.html (1725 words)

	Britain's Labour Party expels rail union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It was the RMT’s predecessor, the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, that moved the resolution at the 1899 Trade Union Congress proposing support for the Labour Representation Committee that went on to found the Labour Party in 1906.
		The rail union has bankrolled the Labour Party throughout the twentieth century, while providing it with crucial political support.
		Especially in the public sector, which has borne the brunt of Labour’s privatising initiatives, and in those industries already privatised by the Tories, of which the last was rail in 1996, there have been repeated warnings by union leaders that they find it almost impossible to justify their continued defence of Labour.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/feb2004/rail-f28_prn.shtml (1973 words)

	National Archives of Australia - The Collection - Transport - Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On overland routes horse drawn vehicles were the main form of transport for travel, commerce and communication.
		The benefits to a large country of reliable, fast and affordable mechanical transport, however, were obvious as the nineteenth century drew to a close.
		The lack of rail transport in many areas means that heavy haulage is left to these behemoths of the road.
	www.naa.gov.au /the_collection/transport/road.html (2996 words)

	TRANSPORT ACT, 1950 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		(b) All bye-laws made by any former transport company and which are in force immediately before the establishment date shall, on and after the establishment date, continue in force and be deemed to have been made under this section and shall be capable of being amended or revoked by bye-laws made under this section.
		(5) Transport stock (other than substituted transport stock) shall be created and issued subject to such terms and conditions as regards the rate and payment of interest thereon and the redemption thereof as the Minister for Finance may approve.
		—(1) For the purposes of sections 28 of the Road Transport Act, 1932 (No. 2 of 1932), the Board shall be deemed to be a company to which Part III of the said Act applies.
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /1950_12.html (11714 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Hot Topics - Transport - Railways
		British Transport police investigating the derailment say they have so far found no evidence of vandalism or sabotage.
		Potters Bar was the latest in a catalogue of disasters, which mars the record of rail transport in Britain.
		Centrifugal force pushes the wheel against the rail on the outside of the curve, and the wheel flange exerts an enormous amount of pressure against the rail.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/hottopics/transport/railways.shtml (750 words)

	National Rail Museum, The Rail Transport Museum, Rail Museum in Delhi, Museums in India, Delhi Museums, Museums Guide ...
		National Rail Museum, The Rail Transport Museum, Rail Museum in Delhi, Museums in India, Delhi Museums, Museums Guide of Delhi, Train Models Museum
		The Rail Transport Museum is a must for rail buffs.
		The star attraction is the Fairy Queen, built in 1855, and considered to be the best preserved steam locomotive engines of her age.
	delhi.indiantravelportal.com /museums/rail-museum.html (332 words)

	Global Networking Timeline: 1800-1899 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The introduction of train increases the speed with which people, goods and mail can be transported over long distances, and frees manufacturing from its dependence on water transport.
		1899 Mar 27 - [M] First international radio transmission (a press communication in Morse code) between South Foureland near Dover, England, and Wimereux near Boulogne-sur-Mer, France is achieved by Guglielmo Marconi (Beeching 1993:47, Brunero and Valori 2001).
		Permission is granted for use of this document in whole or in part for non-commercial purposes as long as this Copyright notice and a link to this document, at the archive listed at the end, is included.
	www.ciolek.com /PAPERS/GLOBAL/1800.html (4347 words)

	Railroad Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		In the 1890s Whitcomb worked as general manager for the Wisconsin Central Railroad, and was named president of Wisconsin Central Lines in 1899.
	www.uwm.edu /Library/arch/rail.htm (1396 words)

	1899
		Years: 1896 1897 1898 - 1899 - 1900 1901.....1899 in art..
		Presumably, this would also.....yatagan bayonet mounts are post 1899 and thus legally modern.
		...Mort en 1899 d'une pneunomie, il laisse la direction de son orchestre à ses frères Edouard.....Johann Strauss (1825 - 1899).
	www.plexxa.com /s/1899 (211 words)

	The Green Rail Link-home page of kennyb
		In fact as rail freight growth continues, demand is now exceeding line capacity and as a result, Railtrack wants to upgrade the trans-Pennine route to win more business.
		The last one, conducted by British Rail, resulted in the closure of the Woodhead line between Manchester and Sheffield.
		The tide is turning in rail's favour as a fast, relatively safe, comfortable and environment-friendly form of transport.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~kennyb (2267 words)

	Rovos Rail and Air - News
		Rovos Rail departs from their headquarters in Capital Park, Pretoria, a once derelict locomotive yard that is now a gracious colonial-style railway station.
		For example, rail networks are not consistently maintained to acceptable standards which means that operators like Rovos Rail have to take exceptional care in seeing that the excursions they offer are of a high and safe standard.
		Rovos Rail's founder, namesake and all-round hero Rohan Vos has spared no expense in renovating the trains, which are obviously his absolute passion, and he has also gone to great lengths to develop their reputation as the most luxurious trains in the world.
	www.rovos.com /news.html (12206 words)

	World Rail Transit List
		Their list of tramways, metros, trolleybus systems and commuter rail is at the URL:
		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)

	THE BOXER UPRISING 1899 - 1900
		The violence grew, and very soon the Protestant converts shared the same fate as the Catholics; houses burnt and possessions confiscated, while a few were killed, all were 'secondary devils' and only less obnoxious than the pure foreigner.
		At first the Boxers confined their operations to Shan-tung, but towards the end of 1899 they spread into the southern part of Chi-li, where the persecution of the Christians also commenced.
		Seymour assembled the relief force at Tien-tsin railway station, the force composed of 111 Americans, 26 Austrians, 915 British, 157 French, 512 German, 42 Italians, 54 Japanese, 312 Russians, with artillery support of 7 field- guns and 10 machine-guns.
	www.russojapanesewar.com /boxers.html (4296 words)

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