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| British Rail | British Railways |
British Railways (BR), which later traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the Rail transport in Great Britain between 1948–1997. It was formed as a result of the the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted...
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Coal is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock normally occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to...
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Lisboa |
Lisbon (Lisboa, Portuguese pronunciation: [liʒˈboɐ]) is the capital and largest city of Portugal. It is considered an alpha global city and is the seat of the district of Lisbon and the main city of the Lisbon region. Its municipality, which matches...
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A narrow gauge railway (or narrow gauge railroad) is a railway that has a track gauge narrower than the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+⁄2 in) of standard gauge railways. Most existing narrow gauge railways have gauges of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) or less.
Since narrow...
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Санкт-Петербург |
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербург (help·info), tr. Sankt-Peterburg, pronounced [sankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk]) is a city and a federal subject (a federal city) of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
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The standard gauge (also named the Stephenson gauge after George Stephenson, or Normal gauge) is a widely-used rail gauge. Approximately 60% of the world's existing railway lines are built to this gauge (see the list of countries that use the...
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| Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad |
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The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (reporting mark DRGW), generally referred to as the Rio Grande, originally the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, is a former U.S. railroad, having been absorbed into a larger system — Southern Pacific...
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Vladivostok (Russian: Владивосто́к (help·info)) is Russia's largest port city on the Pacific Ocean and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai. It is situated at the head of the Golden Horn Bay not far from Russia's border with China and North...
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Trans-Siberian railway |
The Trans-Siberian Railway or Trans-Siberian Railroad (Транссибирская магистраль, Транссиб in Russian, or Transsibirskaya magistral', Transsib) is a network of railways connecting Moscow and European Russia with the Russian Far East provinces,...
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St. Petersburg, Florida |
St. Petersburg (often shortened to St. Pete) is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. The city is known as a vacation destination for North American and European vacationers. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 248,232. As of...
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Broad gauge railways use a rail gauge (distance between the rails) greater than the standard gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+⁄2 in).
For a list see: List of broad gauges, by gauge and country
In Britain the Great Western Railway, designed by Isambard...
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835, and ran its first trains three years...
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Durango, Colorado |
The City of Durango (Navajo: Kinłání) is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 15,501 in 2005....
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Silverton, Colorado |
The Town of Silverton is a Statutory Town that is the county seat of, and the only incorporated municipality in, San Juan County, Colorado, United States. Silverton is a former silver mining camp, most or all of which is now included in a federally...
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Fremantle, Western Australia |
Fremantle is a port city in Western Australia, located 19 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Perth, the state capital, at the mouth of the Swan River on Australia's western coast. It was the first settlement of the Swan River colonists in 1829. It was...
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A heritage railway (United Kingdom and Australia), preserved railway (United Kingdom and Australia), tourist railway (Australia), or tourist railroad (United States and Canada) is a term used for a railway which is run as a tourist attraction, is...
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| William Hedley |
William Hedley (13 July 1779 – 9 January 1843) was one of the leading industrial engineers of the early 19th century, and was very instrumental in several major innovations in early railway development. While working as a 'viewer' or manager at...
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Timothy Hackworth (22 December 1786 – 7 July 1850) was a steam locomotive engineer who lived in Shildon, County Durham, England and was the first locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
Born in Wylam in 1786, Timothy...
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The Corris Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Corris) is a narrow gauge preserved railway based in Corris on the border between Merionethshire (now Gwynedd) and Montgomeryshire (now Powys) in Mid-Wales.
The line opened in 1859, and originally ran from...
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Sintra (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsĩtɾɐ]) is a town in Sintra Municipality in Portugal, located in the Grande Lisboa subregion and the Lisbon Region. The town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on account of its 19th century Romantic architecture....
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The DeWitt Clinton of the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad (M&H;) was the first steam locomotive to operate in the state of New York and the fourth built in the United States. It began operations in 1831. The M&H; became part of the New York Central...
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The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was an experimental tilting High Speed Train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s, which did not enter regular service.
The introduction into service of the Advanced Passenger Train was to be...
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| City of Portland |
The City of Portland was a named passenger train operated by the Union Pacific Railroad and Chicago and North Western Railway between Chicago, Illinois, and Portland, Oregon. In 1935, the railroad dedicated the refurbished M-10001 streamliner...
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The GWR 4073 Class or Castle class locomotives were a group of 4-6-0 steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway. They were originally designed by the railway's Chief Mechanical Engineer, Charles Collett, for working the company's express...
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CN Rail |
The Canadian National Railway (reporting mark CN) is a Canadian Class I railway operated by the Canadian National Railway Company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.
CN is the largest railway in Canada, in terms of both revenue and the physical size...
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| GWR 111 The Great Bear |
The Great Bear, number 111, was a locomotive of the Great Western Railway. It was the first 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive used on a railway in the United Kingdom, and the only one of that type ever built by the GWR.
The Great Bear was built in 1908 to...
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| CSX Transportation |
CSX Transportation (reporting mark CSXT) is a Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the CSX Corporation and headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. It owns approximately 21,000 route miles and is one of the three Class I railroads serving...
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The Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States-based railroad company operating between 1970 and 1996. Its successor-in-interest is the BNSF Railway, which operates the trackage formerly owned by the Burlington Northern....
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Sans Pareil was a steam locomotive built by Timothy Hackworth which took part in the 1829 Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, held to select a builder of locomotives. The name means, roughly, 'Without equal' in French.
While a...
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Mandurah, Western Australia |
Mandurah is a city in Western Australia located approximately 72 kilometres (45 mi) south of the state capital, Perth, Western Australia.
Mandurah is the fastest-growing regional city in Australia, and is also the largest city in Western Australia...
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| Capitol Limited |
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Amtrak's Capitol Limited is one of the railroad's two routes connecting Washington, D.C. to Chicago, running 764 miles (1,230 km) via Cleveland, Ohio (the other is the Cardinal via Cincinnati). The train was begun in 1981, and was named after the...
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Kansas City Southern |
The Kansas City Southern Railway (reporting mark KCS) (NYSE: KSU), owned by Kansas City Southern Industries, is the smallest and second-oldest Class I railroad company still in operation. KCS was founded in 1887 and is currently operating in a...
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| Norfolk Southern Railway |
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The Norfolk Southern Railway (reporting mark NS) is a major Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation. With headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, the company operates 21,500 route miles in 22 eastern states, the...
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Montafonerbahn |
The Montafon Railway (German: Montafonerbahn) is a privately owned railway company that operates services from Bregenz to Schruns, via Bludenz.
The livery of their trains is red and yellow.
The company is headquartered in Schruns.
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Tokyo Metro (東京メトロ, Tōkyō Metoro) is one of two rapid transit systems making up the Tokyo subway system, the other being Toei. It is the most used subway system in the world in terms of annual passenger rides.
Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd. (東京地下鉄株式会社, Tōkyō...
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| Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation |
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (東京都交通局, Tōkyō-to Kōtsū-kyoku) is Tokyo's public transportation authority. Its subway lines are commonly described as 都営 Toei, meaning "operated (ei) by the metropolitan government (to)."
TMBT is one...
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| Shibuya Station |
Shibuya Station (渋谷駅, Shibuya-eki) is a train station located in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. With 2.4 million passengers on an average weekday in 2004, it is the fourth-busiest commuter rail station in Japan (after Shinjuku , Ikebukuro, and Ōsaka / Umeda...
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| Tokyo Kyuko Electric Railway |
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The Tokyu Corporation (東京急行電鉄株式会社, Tōkyō Kyūkō Dentetsu Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 9005), also known in Japanese as Tōkyū Dentetsu (東急電鉄) for short, is a major private railway operator in the Greater Tokyo Area of Japan. Its headquarters are in Shibuya...
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| Union Pacific 737 |
Union Pacific Railway Engine No. 737 or UP 737 is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive. It is currently the oldest preserved Union Pacific steam locomotive. It was originally acquired by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1887. It is one of about 39 surviving...
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| Union Pacific Big Boy |
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Big Boy was the name given to the Union Pacific Railroad's twenty-five 4000 class 4-8-8-4 articulated steam locomotives built between 1941 and 1944 by Alco.
After the introduction of their first Challenger-type (4-6-6-4) locomotives in 1936, the...
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Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 4-6-2 locomotive has four leading wheels (generally arranged in a leading truck), six coupled driving wheels and two trailing wheels (often but not always in a trailing truck)....
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Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 4-8-2 locomotive has four leading wheels (generally arranged in a leading truck), eight coupled driving wheels and two trailing wheels (often but not always in a trailing truck)...
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Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 2-10-4 locomotive has two leading wheels, ten driving wheels (in other words, five driven axles), and four trailing wheels. These were referred to as the "Texas" type in most of...
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| 2-8-8-4 |
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 2-8-8-4 is a steam locomotive with two leading wheels, two sets of eight driving wheels, and a four-wheel trailing truck.
Other equivalent classifications are:
UIC...
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In the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a 4-8-8-4 is a locomotive with a four-wheel leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and a four-wheel trailing truck.
Other equivalent classifications...
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| British Rail Class 53 |
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British Rail assigned Class 53 to the single Brush Traction-built prototype locomotive Falcon. While not in any sense a failure, the design was the victim of advances in locomotive technology (specifically, the power obtainable from single low-speed...
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The British Rail Class 55 is a class of diesel locomotive built between 1961 and 1962 by English Electric. They were designed for the high-speed express passenger services on the East Coast Main Line between London King's Cross and Edinburgh. They...
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Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-4-0 represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four wheels, all of which are driven. Generally speaking, those two axles are linked with side rods...
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The term 0-6-0 (pronounced 'oh-six-oh') is the Whyte notation for the wheel arrangement of a locomotive with six powered driving wheels (thus three powered axles), and neither leading nor trailing wheels. It mainly applies to steam locomotives....
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A 4-6-4 locomotive, in the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, has four leading wheels (generally arranged in a leading truck), six coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels (often but not always in a trailing truck)....
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Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 4-8-4 locomotive has four leading wheels, eight coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels.
Other equivalent classifications are:
UIC classification: 2D2 (also known as...
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Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 2-10-0 is a locomotive with two leading wheels, generally in a radially swinging leading truck, and ten coupled driving wheels, five on each side. This arrangement was often...
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| Tokyu Toyoko Line |
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The Tōkyū Tōyoko Line (東急東横線, Tōkyū Tōyokosen) is a major commuter railway line connecting Tokyo (Shibuya) to Yokohama of the private Tokyu Corporation. The name of the line, Tōyoko (東横), is a combination of the first character of Tōkyō (東京) and...
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| Tokyo Subway |
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The Tokyo subway is an integral part of the world's most extensive rapid transit system in a single metropolitan area, Greater Tokyo. While the subway system itself is largely within the city center, the lines extend far out via extensive through...
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| City of New Orleans |
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The City of New Orleans is a nightly passenger train operated by Amtrak which travels 926 miles (1,490 km) between Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. Before Amtrak's formation in 1971, the train was operated by the Illinois Central...
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| British Rail Class 52 |
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British Rail assigned Class 52 to the class of 74 large Type 4 diesel-hydraulic locomotives built for the Western Region of British Railways between 1961 and 1964. All were given two-word names, with the first word being Western, and thus the type...
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| Puffing Billy |
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Puffing Billy is an early railway steam locomotive, constructed in 1813-1814 by engineer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster and blacksmith Timothy Hackworth for Christopher Blackett, the owner of Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne,...
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| British Rail Class 01 |
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British Rail's Class 01 diesel locomotives were a short wheelbase 0-4-0 diesel-mechanical design intended for use in areas with tight curves and limited clearance.
Four examples were built by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. of Kilmarnock (Scotland) in...
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| British Rail Class 02 |
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The British Rail Class 02 were a class of twenty 0-4-0 diesel-hydraulic shunting locomotives built by the Yorkshire Engine Company in 1960 (first ten, D2850-D2859) and 1961 (D2860-D2869) for service in areas of restricted loading gauge and curvature...
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| British Rail Class 03 |
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The British Rail Class 03 locomotive is, together with Class 04, one of BR's most successful smaller 0-6-0 diesel-mechanical shunters. The class, numbering 230 examples, was built by British Railways' Swindon and Doncaster works in 1957-1962 and...
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