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	Encyclopedia: History of rail transport in Great Britain
		As early as 1676 railed roads were in use in Northumberland to ease the conveyance of coal from the mines to the banks of the river at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
		Called tramroads (the early coal wagons were called drams), these primitive rails were superseded in 1793 when the then superintendent of the Cromford Canal, Benjamin Outram constructed a tramway with L-shaped cast-iron rails: the tramway was a little over a mile in length and had a gauge of 3 ft 6 ins (1067 mm).
		Although these rails were a huge step forward over the wooden "rails", they themselves were superseded when William Jessup (1745-1814) - who had been a pupil of John Smeaton - built and, with Outram, manufactured cast-iron rails without guiding ledges, where the edges of the wagon-wheels were flanged instead.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-rail-transport-in-Great-Britain (9282 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1948
		DavÃÃ° Oddsson DavÃÃ° Oddsson (born 17 January 1948, in ReykjavÃk, Iceland) is an Icelandic politician and the longest serving Prime Minister of Iceland (1991â€“2004).
		R. Crowley (born March 2, 1948) is a pioneer in the development and practice of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), an early component of electronic commerce.
		Steven Tyler Steven Victor Tallarico (born March 26, 1948 to Victor Tallarico and Susan Blancha in Yonkers, New York), better known as Steven Tyler, is the singer and co-songwriter in the band Aerosmith, formed in Sunapee, New Hampshire in the early 1970s.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1948 (9482 words)

	Rail transport in Great Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A symbolic loss to the UK rail freight industry was the custom of the Royal Mail, which from 2004 is discontinuing use of its 49-train fleet, and switching to road haulage after a near 170 year preference for trains.
		The Strategic Rail Authority is the statutory strategic planning and coordinating body for the rail industry, and the guardian of passenger and freight interests.
		The Office of Rail Regulation has as its principal functions to regulate Network Rail's stewardship of the national rail network infrastructure, and to hold train operating companies accountable to the terms of their operating licence.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_railway_system (2630 words)

	Train travel, transport prices to rise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Russia's rail travel and transportation prices are set to rise this month, in a move initiated by the railways and passed by the government.
		Rail ministry chiefs have ordered a 10 percent increase on the price of a second-class sleeper ticket, a 20 percent rise for first-class sleepers, and a 10 percent hike on cargo shipment rates.
		Every increase in rail transportation rates automatically prompts price hikes in industry and subsequently in the fuel and energy sector.
	www.russiajournal.com /fan/russia_1948_1668_news.htm (524 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Alamein railway line, Melbourne
		The line was later extended to Alamein station to serve a newly-built housing estate, and opened on June 28 1948 as the Alamein line.
		The line was also the first in the city to receive new Metlink-branded signage, including the new, blue colour-code for the train network, and signs directing passengers to connecting tram and bus services.
		Railway enthusiasts as well as public transport activists have called for the line to be extended along the old Outer Circle reservation south of Alamein station.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Alamein_railway_line,_Melbourne (779 words)

	Western Sydney Libraries & Local Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The proposal consists of a rail loop and an underground railway station with three platforms capable of handling 30 trains per hour.
		The rail service was officially opened on 8 November 1926, but the operation of the line ran at a loss.
		At 8:10 on the morning of 18 January 1977, eighty-three people died in Australia's worst rail disaster when a 300 tonne section of the Bold Street bridge, Granville, collapsed onto the 6:10 from Mt. Victoria when one of the pylons was struck by the locomotive.
	www.westernsydneylibraries.nsw.gov.au /transport/rail.html (2564 words)

	The Queensland Rail Strike 1948
		The rail workers, meeting in the Trades Hall, were to wait until the wharfies had swung through Queen Street, past Edward Street, then they too were to march from the Trades Hall and converge on the square from three points.
		The rail workers, marching in from the north end of Adelaide Street and others west from Roma Street, all entered the square at about the same time as the wharfies marched in from the southern side.
		August 1948: An impromptu welcome at the Brisbane Trades Hall for Ted Englart (seated left), Max Julius and Mick Healy on the morning of their release from Boggo Road jail where they had been imprisoned for refusing to pay fines under the anti-strike Hanlon government law enacted during the Queensland rail strike.
	www.takver.com /history/railq48/railqld.htm (9418 words)

	Tearing up the Tracks. Public transport in the UK pulled to pieces to make way for death, pollution, stress..... and ...
		Because certain groups, such as the rail unions, were so 'invisibly' important to the running of industry that when they eventually sneezed, the rulers caught the flu, and the country as a whole turned on these former unsung heroes.
		Rail privatisation is the best step ever towards making the railways succesful and encouraging investment but you are only going to see that on long distance peak lines and dense commuter networks.
		The aim should be to harmonise and co-ordinate the newer and older forms of transport with the objective of obtaining from each the maximum of advantage to th e public.
	www.bilderberg.org /railways.htm (7112 words)

	1948 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1948.
		In 1948, 14 railroads in North America owned more than 1,000 steam locomotives each.
		January 4 - Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad debut a new lightweight passenger car consist for the Golden State passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1948_in_rail_transport (245 words)

	1948 - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		1945 1946 1947 - 1948 - 1949 1950 1951
		November 17 - Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi divorces Queen Fawzia of Egypt after she is unable to produce a male heir.
		February 28 - Bud Gartiser sets a new world record after clearing the 50-yard low hurdles in 6.8 seconds.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /1948.htm (1934 words)

	Term paper on Ulster Transport Authority
		UTA's logo The Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) ran rail and bus transport in Northern Ireland from 1948 until 1966.
		The UTA was formed by the 1948 Transport Act (NI) by the merger of the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board (NIRTB) and the Belfast and County Down Railway (BCDR).
		Acts in 1966 saw the split into road and rail operations, rail being taken over by Ulster Transport Railways (UTR) which a year later was renamed Northern Ireland Railways (NIR).
	www.termpapertopic.org /ul/ulster-transport-authority.html (164 words)

	The Ultimate Rail transport in Great Britain - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Examples from the Victorian era are the building of the Forth Bridge, or the replacement of 177 miles (285 km) of broad gauge rail with standard gauge in a single weekend from May 21, 1892.
		A number of regional or specific rail services are let by regional government authorities, or, such as the Heathrow Express, through other arrangements not involving the SRA.
		Average rolling stock age — thought to be an indicator of passenger comfort — fell slightly from the third quarter of 2001–2 to the third quater of 2003–4, from 20.7 years old, to 19.3 years old.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/British_railway_system (2550 words)

	cars - Historical sizes of railroads
		By 1948, there were 14 railroads in North America with more than 1000 locomotives in service each.
		The total number of steam locomotives and the number of route miles for each railroad in 1948 are given by Bruce (1952).
		Bruce (1952) also reports that by the end of 1949 a total of approximately 29,000 steam locomotives were left on Class I railroads in the United States.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Historical_sizes_of_railroads (155 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 (1670 words)

	Dáil Éireann - Volume 111 - 15 June, 1948 - Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Rail Transport of Goods.
		Morrissey: The accounts rendered by Córas Iompair Éireann are compiled in the manner prescribed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce under Section 26 of the Transport Act, 1944.
		The audited accounts of the company for each year are laid before each House of the Oireachtas.
		The information sought by the Deputy is not separately distinguished in the accounts or statistics furnished by the company, and I would not feel warranted in asking the company to compile it.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0111/D.0111.194806150039.html (181 words)

	UK Transport Extra
		And that goes for all modern forms of transport be it rail, air or road.
		As the rail journalist Christian Wolmar pointed out the SRA still (this is 2 years since it came into existence) has no idea whether the aim is TGV[] operations or tunnels under London or new commuter routes.
		The creation of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) which subsumed the job of OPRAF and was given a brief to come up with schemes to increase the capacity of the network.
	www.uktransporte.blogspot.com /2002_06_23_uktransporte_archive.html (10121 words)

	Rail Transport Museum delhi, Rail Transport Museum India, Rail Transport Museum tour, Rail Transport Museum picture, ...
		Rail Transport Museum delhi, Rail Transport Museum India, Rail Transport Museum tour, Rail Transport Museum picture, Rail Transport Museum tourist attraction, Rail Transport Museum tourist information.
		140 years of Indian Railway history and heritage is preserved in this Rail Transport Museum located in the diplomatic area of Chanakyapuri with exotic and fascinating collections of Engines and other exhibits.
		The carriage of the Maharaja of Mysore made of teak covered with ivory; the cabin of the Prince of Wales (1876), the carriage in which the ashes of Gandhiji was carried in 1948; Fairy Queen of 1855, evolution of Indian Rail from steam engine to present era are vividly displayed.
	www.tourtravelworld.com /hot_spots/delhi/rail_transport_museum (263 words)

	ufindus.com - Rail Transport
		If you are travelling by train and are searching for services such as destination routes, rail tickets or prices then the UFindUs rail transport directory can help you.
		Travelling by train is always a pleasant journey to make, no matter where your destination is, the UFindUs rail transport directory has a vast variety of listings to help you discover more about your journey.
		All the rail transport sites listed will supply you with all the necessary information you need to know about the services they offer as well as the specific contact details.
	torquay.ufindus.co.uk /C_rail_transport (118 words)

	archives
		The Transport Trust library is housed at Ironbridge; and the Omnibus Society Library and Archive shares the premises.
		Transport History Collection established since 1953 as major resource for academic study of the subject; particularly strong in railway books.
		The museum's collections and archives are rich in material relating to transport in Ireland, supplemented by the deposit in its library of the McNeill-Green collection which concentrates on books and timetables relating to Irish shipping and railways, and British bus timetables.
	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /external/rchs/archives.htm (4507 words)

	wiki/1920 in rail transport Definition / wiki/1920 in rail transport Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		1921 in rail transport This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1921.
		This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1920.
		June 13 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad or BandO was a 19th century railroad which operated in the east coast of the United States and was the first railroad to offer commercial transportation of both people and freight.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/1920_in_rail_transport (389 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| On track to regional rail revival
		The government's main regeneration group for rural areas yesterday called for up to 20 disused railway lines in Yorkshire and the Humber to be re-opened as part of an "effective regional transport network".
		Every line closed since 1948 was analysed, including some services that were closed before the then British railways board chairman, Dr Richard Beeching, wielded his axe in 1961.
		The report's author, Paul Salveson, of the transport research and information network, said: "If the York-to-Beverley or Leeds-to-Wetherby lines had survived, today they would be thriving commuter arteries."
	www.guardian.co.uk /transport/Story/0,2763,939315,00.html (225 words)

	BG Group UK - Gaskets and Gasket Seals for Rail Transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The movement of passengers and freight by rail is a major form of transportation in the UK.
		Since 1948 when the railway network was originally nationalised with the birth of British Rail, many changes have taken place.
		These changes have primarily happened in the last 10 years, culminating with the railway act in 1993, with the last passenger franchise bring awarded in 1997.
	www.british-gaskets.co.uk /railway.htm (343 words)

	Welcome to Rinbad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rail layout maps of certain complex areas in Germany and Austria, by Rodger Wilkinson
		NL - Netherlands: a critique of recent ‘light rail’ and urban rail proposals, 2003 (80 kilobytes; further amended 28 September 2003)
		ES - Rail transport in Barcelona in 2000 (15 kilobytes)
	www.rinbad.free-online.co.uk (815 words)

	Ulster Transport Authority single deck buses and coaches 1948 – 1967
		On the formation of the Ulster Transport Authority in October 1948, all of the 426 post-war buses passed to the new concern, along with a sizeable number (459) of the older vehicles summarised above.
		Having amalgamated all road and rail transport companies in Ulster, the new thinking was to reduce duplication of services, which in effect meant mass (and often unnecessary or unwanted) railway closures, and a consequent increase in the size of the bus fleet.
		In 1948 the entire fleet had been half cabs (and lowbridge in the case of double deckers).
	www.skylineaviation.co.uk /buses/utasing.html (2351 words)

	EUROPA - Transport et Interopérabilité ferroviaires - Législation - Interopérabilité (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		EUROPA - Transport et Interopérabilité ferroviaires - Législation - Interopérabilité
		Transports de marchandises dangereuses par chemin de fer
		Décision de la Commission 2002/732/CE du 30 mai 2002 concernant la spécification technique d'interopérabilité relative au sous-système "infrastructure" du système ferroviaire transeuropéen à grande vitesse visée à l'article 6, paragraphe 1, de la directive 96/48/CE (notifiée sous le numéro C(2002) 1948), JO L245 du 12/9/2002, p.
	www.eu.int /comm/transport/rail/legislation/interoperability_fr.htm (876 words)

	OVERGROUND - Northern Heights - April 1970
		London Transport had planned to take over the line, running tube trains along it instead of steam engines, but these works, although advanced, were disrupted by the second world war and subsequently abandoned.
		The outer hand-rails were subsequently removed (as was the top half of the centre rail), presumably when the barrier grille was relocated from the bottom of this stairway.
		This was practically the only (sanctioned) desecration to this fine structure in the next 25 years of abandonment.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /overground/heights (2068 words)

	1920 in rail transport Definition / 1920 in rail transport Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		1920 in rail transport Definition / 1920 in rail transport Research
		This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 19201920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk.
		November - H.P.M. BeamesHewitt Pearson Montague Beames (9 May 1875 — 5 March 1948) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1920-1922....
	www.elresearch.com /1920_in_rail_transport (165 words)

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