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Passenger wagon on a mine railway. Until 1995 the largest single, narrow gauge, above-ground, mine and coal railway network in Europe was in the Leipzig-Altenburg lignite field in Germany. It had 726 kilometres (451 mi) of 900 mm (2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in) – the largest 900 mm (2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in) network in existence. Of this, about 215 ...
1831 – First railway in Australia, for the Australian Agricultural Company, a cast iron fish belly gravitational railway servicing the A Pit coal mine. 1831 – First passenger season tickets issued on the Canterbury & Whitstable Railway. 1832 – The Leicester and Swannington Railway opened in Leicestershire. It was the first steam railway ...
The Cumberland Mine Railroad is a private carrier mine railroad serving the Cumberland Coal Resources mine near Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Operations on the mine and associated railroad began in November 1976. The line was originally developed by United States Steel as a source of steam coal for export to Canada. Subsequently, the mine and ...
In the Shire of West Arthur, a number of railway related installations are on the shire's heritage list. The Darkan railway station precinct and the Hillman River railway bridge were once part of the Brunswick Junction to Narrogin line, while the Bowelling railway station is associated with both this line and the Wagin to Bowelling one. [17]
The Carmeuse company operates two shortline railroads carrying freight along the shoreline of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan in the U.S. state of Michigan. Carmeuse operates two major Michigan quarries, and uses a variety of transportation methods, including stub short lines, to carry crushed stone and aggregate to waterfront locations where the material can be placed on conveyor belts for water ...
Mining railways — industrial railways at/in mines, and from them to ore processing operations. Trains portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 4 ...
Image credits: Sir_Atlass #9. The owners daughter showed up to open 1.5 hours late. Said she thought her mom had given me keys. Proceeded to tell me to unload her car before I could come in and ...
The Great Laxey Mine Railway was originally constructed to serve the Isle of Man's Great Laxey Mine, a lead mine located in Laxey.The 19 in (483 mm) gauge railway runs from the old mine entrance to the washing floors along a right of way that passes through the Isle of Man's only remaining railway tunnel (another at Dhoon West Quarry is disused) under the 3 ft (914 mm) gauge Victorian Manx ...