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Liverpool Overhead Railway, 1951. The earliest elevated railway was the London and Greenwich Railway on a brick viaduct of 878 arches, built between 1836 and 1838. The first 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of the London and Blackwall Railway (1840) was also built on a viaduct.
The IRT Third Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue Elevated, Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City. Originally operated by the New York Elevated Railway, an independent railway company, it was acquired by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and eventually became part ...
The Third Avenue–149th Street station is a station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway.It is located at Third Avenue and East 149th Street (the latter of which is also known as Eugenio Maria de Hostos Boulevard) in the Hub in the South Bronx adjacent to Mott Haven and Melrose.
The IRT Sixth Avenue Line, often called the Sixth Avenue Elevated or Sixth Avenue El, was the second elevated railway in Manhattan in New York City, following the Ninth Avenue Elevated. The line ran south of Central Park , mainly along Sixth Avenue .
El train or L Train may refer to: An Elevated railway; The Chicago "L", a rapid transit system; The Market–Frankford Line in Philadelphia, commonly called "the El" L (New York City Subway service) L Taraval, streetcar route in San Francisco; L Line (Los Angeles Metro), a light rail line in Los Angeles County, California
Manhattan El is a term used to describe Interborough Rapid Transit Company (RT) elevated gate cars used on predecessor lines of the New York City Subway system. These cars were built by the Pullman , Wason , Gilbert & Bush , Bowers & Dure, Barney & Smith , Jewett , St. Louis , Cincinnati , and American Car and Foundry companies.
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.
"Waterline" is a song by Irish pop duo Jedward. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was written by Swedish songwriter Nick Jarl and Swedish-based American songwriter Sharon Vaughn . It is best known as Ireland's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 held in Baku, Azerbaijan.