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	The Pennsylvania Railroad
		He discarded the old wooden rail or stone stringer plated with scrap iron then in general use, and designed a crude but practical anticipation of the T-rail which, with slight variations in shape and modernization in size and weight, is still the standard design of railway tracks to-day.
		The first lengths of rail for the pioneer line were received by ship from England early in 1831, and the first piece of track, five-sixths of a mile long, was laid during the summer of that year from Bordentown northwards, in the direction of Hightstown.
		The rail was attached to the stones by a newly devised hook-headed spike, the forerunner of the spike now in general use.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r009.html (4633 words)

	TRANSPORTOBELLO.COM: Rail Transport - Rapid Transit
		Suburban rail services, on the other hand, often share tracks and stations with long-distance trains (historically they were usually operated by the same company, which also owned the rails and ran freight, although this has become less common) and are subject to the same standards and regulations.
		It is now part of the Budapest Metro and remains largely in its original state, with the original cars modernised and the stations restored in keeping with their original design, and with the route the same except for a very short extension north to Mexikói út to connect with the city's tram network.
		Japan's rail system is quite different from others in that the vast majority of its rapid transit is above ground, and privately owned and operated, and train stations blur the dinstiction between vast underground malls and corporate skyscrapers and gigantic high rise department stores.
	www.transportobello.com /rail/rapid.html (3864 words)

	Transport - Papua New Guinea - Australia railways 19th Century & 1914 on ...
		The object to the line being to facilitate the transport of ore and commercial products from the several mines and plantations in the vicinity and it is hoped that it will also be the means of further opening of the more outlying and remoter districts of Sogeri and Brown River.
		In 1917, rail was purchased for a railway on the wharf.
		Mail was unloaded from steamers and railed direct to the post office, where it was unloaded under the shelter of the verandah.
	www.pngbuai.com /300socialsciences/transport/railaust19c1.html (3934 words)

	Railways of Britain2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When the corporation took over operation of the public transport in Blackpool horse buses were banned from the promenade therefore giving the trams all the passenger traffic though also forming an integrated system by allowing the buses to terminate near tram stops for the easy interchange of passenger traffic.
		To aid the carrying of materials for the construction of the promenade in 1905 temporary standard gauge rails were laid on sleepers on the road.
		Another difficulty was that the track had not been laid to a consistent gauge, with all the new cars breaking their axles and the curves in to Marton depot were also found to be too tight for the 4 wheeled cars.
	groups.msn.com /RailwaysofBritain2/blackpoolcorporationtramways.msnw (1756 words)

	Rail transport has future in 21st century
		Rail transport -- both passenger and freight -- helped shape the development of the Quad-Cities, and likely will continue to do so in the upcoming century, said Denise Bulat, a transportation planner with the Bi-State Regional Commission.
		Rail transport fell out of favor 10 to 15 years ago when trucking took over as the primary means of moving large goods, said Rick Baker, president of the Illinois Quad City Chamber of Commerce.
		The recent announcement of a major rail hub to be built in Silvis is a physical indication of the current return to the rails, Mr.
	qconline.com /progress2000/biz19.shtml (466 words)

	Transport - German New Guinea - German Neuguinea railways 19th Century (1884 - 1914)
		In 1884 a charter was granted to the Neuguinea Kompagnie (NGK) to enter into relations with the native people, to experiment with the cultivation of useful tropical crops, to prepare for settlement and to serve as a basis for administration when established.
		A substantial new pier was completed at Friedrich Wilhelmshafen in 1902 allowing "the Imperial Mail Steamer to tie up without difficulty and unload from both hatches." The railway laid by the NGK helped to simplify the loading and unloading.
		Rails were also used at Asitavi sawmill and to build a copra drier at Tenakau.
	www.pngbuai.com /300socialsciences/transport/railgerman1a.html (5151 words)

	Interurbans
		In the United States, it had long been the practice for rails to be laid in city streets, over which railway cars, both passenger and freight, were transferred from station to station and from station to shipper, drawn by line teams (two to four horses in tandem).
		Rails were light, perhaps 56 pounds per yard, and narrow gauge, say 3 feet, was quite common, since these railways were promoted at the height of the narrow-gauge fever.
		Rail joints were bonded with copper wire welded into plugs that were hammered into the rail web on each side of a joint.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/railway/trolley.htm (13488 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page : 1/19/190 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 1902 English cricket season saw Yorkshire win their third consecutive County Championship title, as they, like in 1901 went through the season with one defeat from more than 25 games, and, like in 1901, it was Somerset who defeated them.
		Timelineof aviation 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 This is a list of aviation-related events from 1903: February February 16 Traian Vuia presented to the Académie des Sciences of Paris the possibility of flying with a heavier-than-air mechanical machine and hi..
		Timelineof aviation 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 This is a list of aviation-related events from 1905: April April 27 - Sapper Moreton of the British Army's balloon section is lifted 2,600 ft (792 m) by a kite at Aldershot under the supervision of the kite's d..
	www.alanaditescili.net /browse.php?title=1/19/190 (9573 words)

	St. Louis Historic Context: Transprtation
		Transportation issues have both spurred and deterred growth, sometimes through people's own doing, other times not.
		Just as transportation is among the prevailing themes of American history, it is a key to understanding St. Louis's past and present-as well as its future.
		Wiggins Ferry Company, who owned a virtual monopoly in St. Louis, carried the rail cars across the river where they were again connected to locomotives for the rest of their journey.
	stlouis.missouri.org /government/heritage/history/transport.htm (2816 words)

	Rails
		Plans were proposed to build electric trolley lines that would transport men and material around the island and, by 1909, construction of the electric line commenced.
		Since they did not have any heavy transport, they scrapped whatever the POW work parties could easily load into barges and foremost of these were the railroad rails that wound around the island.
		What remained were a few rail lines embedded in concrete while the rest (which were not scrapped) remain buried under mudslides and sheet erosion caused by the tropical rains and the elements.
	www.corregidor.org /chs_feredo/rails.htm (1886 words)

	swissinfo - Transport
		Switzerland's early participation in the "rail fever" of the mid 19th century means many rail lines meander between villages rather than forming direct links between cities.
		The pioneering Gotthard rail line, with its twisting route, steep gradients, and a sixteen-kilometre tunnel under the pass of the same name was opened in 1882.
		In 1902 the Albula tunnel opened the way for the Rhaetian railway line from Chur in the Rhine valley to the budding winter resort of St Moritz.
	www.swissinfo.org /eng/country_profile/transport/detail.html?siteSect=2605&sid=5246988&cKey=1140616353000 (922 words)

	Railroad History in the Finger Lakes
		It should be noted that all railroads in Geneva at this time, except the Fallbrook, used the rails to one passenger station on East Lewis St. Thus it is not surprising to note records of altercations between opposing trains of the different railroads occurring at the station from time to time.
		Construction began in 1902 and the 43 mile long trolley line between Rochester and Geneva was completed in June 1904.
		The transportation act of 1920 canceled the USRA and set up the ICC as the planning agency to solve the problem of too many railroads.
	fglk.railfan.net /history.html (3604 words)

	Transport
		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.
		First reliable, consistent form of transportation in the area for commuters, tourists, and business travelers (1000 passengers); essential to manufacturers in the industrial communities of central New England.
		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 (4089 words)

	Electric Traction
		In England a patent was granted in 1840 for the use of rails as conductors of electric current, and similar American patents were issued to Lilley and Colten in 1847.
		All that is needed to cause the car to move along the running rails is to supply current through an overhead wire or third "conductor rail." This wire or rail will serve as a "return" for the electric current to the dynamo in the power station.
		This conductor rail was set one inch below the level of the running rails, and wooden ramps were provided at points and crossings to carry the collectors over the rails, thus avoiding a short-circuit.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r066.html (2793 words)

	Passenger rail in the 20th Century - Railway Age, December 1999
		America's great continental network of rail passenger services was able to absorb an enormous leap in traffic that came with the war effort of World War I. The passenger volume on U.S. Class I railroads grew steadily all through the war years and afterward.
		Amtrak and VIA Rail were born out of a belief that a nationwide system of intercity rail passenger service was in the national interest, and both have come far in restoring the quality and reliability of these services.
		With this substantial growth of rail systems in the past several decades, urban and regional/commuter rail have represented the fastest growing segment of public transit for close to two decades.
	www.railwayage.com /dec99/passenger.html (3077 words)

	APL: History - Evolution of Rail in America
		Soon after major ocean transportation carriers began the lengthy process of integrating containers into their operations in the 1950s, America’s railroads were loading these “boxes” onto flatcars to deliver goods more quickly and easily to the U.S. interior.
		Perhaps the last vestiges of the country’s agrarian past — using the sun to tell time and arriving at appointments within an hour of the scheduled time — quickly gave way to a modern age when timeliness was of the essence, and pocket watches made adherence to schedules the norm.
		For example, containerized transportation providers used a chassis — a wheeled frame onto which the container is seated after being discharged from a vessel — so truckers could haul a container to and from a customer’s warehouse.
	www.apl.com /history/topics/innovate/rail.htm (1396 words)

	Introduction - Transportation and Literature
		As new modes of transportation were developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, novelists and poets tried to capture their cultural significance.
		With a topic like transportation, which is, for most literary works, part of the general backdrop, we can rely on the authors' perceptions as being fairly accurate, at least within the limits of their own experiences and those of their families and friends.
		The broad view of American transportation history which comes through from this survey could be quite instructive to people in other countries who are planning their national systems to serve the public.
	english.cla.umn.edu /Faculty/ross/Transport/introduction.htm (11201 words)

	Bury Corporation Transport: 1903-1969 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The earliest mention of a transport system in Bury was in 1796 when a twice-weekly horse-drawn coach, which travelled between Rochdale and Manchester via Bury, was withdrawn due to lack of patronage.
		In November 1902 work was begun on the first of the Corporation's lines, to Fairfield, and on Tuesday the 2nd of June 1903 several test runs were made by the electric trams over the route.
		On the 16th November 1942 the Regional Transport Commissioners made an order that stopping places for public service vehicles should be arranged on the basis of four per mile, with the view to saving fuel and prolonging the life of vehicles.
	www.petergould.co.uk /local_transport_history/fleetlists/bury1.htm (3612 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In its day it was a major achievement, as it made travel to London direct by rail a possibility in a travel time of nine and a half hours.
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The rail link, together with the canal system, was instrumental in the growth of Manchester's industrial base in the 19th century.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1128 words)

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		Railway Transport Council for the CIS, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 9.
		LG transports passengers and freight to the countries of EECE, Asia in compliance with the legal acts of OSJD.
		Railway Transport Council for the CIS, Bulgaria, the Baltics.
	www.litrail.lt /wwwen.nsf/0/4BB8AB6132EBF85FC1256C71003C57CF (483 words)

	Albany Area Railroads -- History & Context, Mohawk & Hudson Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		The Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road, the first railroad to be chartered in New York State (April 17, 1826) and the first to begin operations (August 9, 1831) with its famous "DeWitt Clinton" locomotive, was the earliest predecessor of today's Conrail.
		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)

	Rail transport in Victoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rail transport in Victoria, Australia, is run by a combination of government run railway lines and private concerns.
		In 1883 the first connection with another State's rail system was made when a line was completed to the New South Wales Government Railways's station at Albury, requiring a break-of-gauge to New South Wales's standard gauge (1435mm).
		This line became part of the Melbourne suburban electrified network during the 20th century and most of it was converted to standard gauge light rail in the 1987 as Melbourne tram route 109.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rail_transport_in_Victoria (2829 words)

	Dates in Canadian Railway History
		This is the longest rail tunnel in the Americas.
		Lawrence and Hudson Railway is formed by merging the CP Rail routes in southern Ontario and Quebec with its Delaware and Hudson subsidiary in northern USA.
		The line is managed by Orangeville and Brampton Rail Association Group and Cando Contracting operates the line with running rights to an interchange with CPR at Streetsville.
	www.railways.incanada.net /candate/candate.htm (10516 words)

	Twentieth Century: Transport - Dartford and the railway
		In 1902 the Dartford UDC recommended that the general manager of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway be asked to issue cheap tickets to Dartford from stations between Plumstead and Dartford on Saturdays for people going to Dartford Market.
		The architect of the newly modernised station was described as a 'madman'; it was stated in the local press that a 10 year old child with a box of lego bricks could have produced a more functional design.
		With British Rail in recession and commuter lines hit by strikes and disruption there was little hope of additional improvements until the 1990s.
	www.dartfordarchive.org.uk /20th_century/transport_railway.shtml (859 words)

	1865 in rail transport at AllExperts
		Morris, J.C., Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs (December 31 1902), Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, Part II.
		June 9 - Rail* accident at Staplehurst, United Kingdom: 10 killed, 49 injured; Charles Dickens is amongst the survivors.
		Morris, J. C., compiler (December 31 1902), Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs: Part II.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1865_in_rail_transport.htm (557 words)

	TRAMCARs
		Outram, who developed, a new form of transport in England which later came to be powered by electricity and is famous in the form we see today.
		In fact, Metro rail and trams are two aspects of Kolkata, which still give the city an aura of exclusivity.
		Electric trams began running on March 27, 1902 and by 1921 there were 56 km of track and 512 cars in service.
	railindia.tripod.com /tramcars.html (1777 words)

	The Railways
		The economics of the railways is covered from the initial raising of capital in the 1840s, amalgamations of the railway companies in the late 19th century to the nationalisation debate, competition with road transport and line closures in the 20th century.
		The debate about rail nationalisation and privatisation was reopened in the 1990s and pamphlets on this subject have been published by the main political parties, and bodies such as Transport 2000 and the Chartered Institute for Public Finance and Accountancy.
		The National Standing Joint Committee on Road and Rail Traffic Problems produced the "Road and rail crisis" in 1962 (HE1(42)/E8) and "Passengers no more, 1952-1962:closures of stations and branch lines" a list of lines and stations to be closed, was compiled by Daniels and Dench in 1963 (HE1(42)/E9).
	www.lse.ac.uk /library/pamphlets/Transport/transportpamphletpages/the_railways.htm (1585 words)

	CityRail - Central Station Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On the first day of rail - 26 September 1855 - 750 first class tickets at 4 shillings each were sold for the run between Parramatta and Sydney.
		Eleven stone masons commenced work on 7 August 1902 and work gangs demolished the platforms of the old Sydney station as the new ones were built.
		Platforms 1 – 15 and the first two floors of the new station were opened by the Premier and Minister for Transport, in August 1906.
	www.cityrail.info /aboutus/station_tour/location_2.jsp (288 words)

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