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1837 – The first line in Paris (Paris-Saint Germain Line) opened between Le Pecq near the former royal town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Embarcadère des Bâtignoles (later to become Gare Saint-Lazare). It was the first railway in Paris and the first in France designed solely for the carriage of passengers and operated using steam locomotives.
A monowheel or uniwheel is a type of one-wheeled, single-track vehicle. Unlike the unicycle , a monowheel consists of a large, hollow wheel that loops above and around the driver. Monowheels are typically powered by an engine as with a motorcycle , with a chassis securing the steering, driver's seat, and propulsion mechanism to the interior of ...
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
The first passenger train in South India ran from Royapuram / Veyasarapady to Wallajah Road on 1 July 1856, for a distance of 60 miles. It was built and operated by Madras Railway. [ 109 ] On 24 February 1873, the first tramway (a horse-drawn tramway ) opened in Calcutta between Sealdah and Armenian Ghat Street, a distance of 3.8 km. [ 110 ]
The first half of the 20th century saw many further proposed designs that either never left the drawing board or remained short-lived prototypes. One of the most interesting projects created on the layout was the ball-bearing train by Nikolai Grigorievich Yarmolchuk.
A Chongqing Rail Transit monorail train. Line 3 is the world's longest and busiest monorail line. A monorail is a railway system in which the track consists of a single elevated rail, beam or track with the trains either supported or suspended. The term is also used to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or ...
The Victorian building replaced the original offices, becoming one of the first train stations to host travelers. The first documented passenger traffic arrived in the later half of 1827 when the area down to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania was known as "the Switzerland of America"; regular passenger trains transported urban tourists from 1829 until ...
Brennan filed his first monorail patent in 1903. His first demonstration model was just a 30.0-by-11.8-inch (762 by 300 mm) box containing the balancing system. However, this was sufficient for the Army Council to recommend a sum of £10,000 for the development of a full-size vehicle. This was vetoed by their Financial Department.