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  2. Timeline of railway history - Wikipedia

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    1968 – British Rail ran its last final steam-driven mainline train, named the Fifteen Guinea Special, after of a programmed withdrawal of steam during 1962–68. It marked the end of 143 years of its public railway use. Thailand's tram line was stop serviced.

  3. Retirement of steam locomotives by country - Wikipedia

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    In the Netherlands, the first electric trains appeared in 1908, making the trip from Rotterdam to The Hague. The first diesels were introduced in 1934. As electric and diesel trains performed so well, the decline of steam started just after World War II, with steam traction for the Dutch railways ending on 7 January 1958.

  4. History of rail transport - Wikipedia

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    An Italian ETR 500 train running on the Florence–Rome high-speed line near Arezzo, Italy, the first high-speed railway opened in Europe. [ 86 ] In the 1960s, the FS started an innovative project for high speed trains .

  5. Rail transport in Europe - Wikipedia

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    First railway line by country. Europe was the epicenter of rail transport and has today one of the densest networks (an average of 46 km (29 mi) for every 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi) in the EU as of 2013). [10]

  6. Transport in Europe - Wikipedia

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    The European Rail Traffic Management System is an EU initiative to create a Europe-wide standard for train signalling. Rail infrastructure, freight transport and passenger services are provided by a combination of local and national governments and private companies. Passenger ticketing varies from country to country and service to service.

  7. Public transport timetable - Wikipedia

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    Although Thomas Cook Group plc ceased publication in 2013, the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable was revived by a new company in early 2014 as simply the European Rail Timetable. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] From 1981 to 2010, Cook also produced a similar bi-monthly Overseas volume covering the rest of the world, [ 3 ] and some of that content was moved into ...

  8. I've been riding trains across Europe for 15 years. I love it ...

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    I'm an American with citizenship in Poland and Portugal, and I've spent 15 years riding trains around Europe. Some passengers make simple mistakes.

  9. List of the first German railways to 1870 - Wikipedia

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    Riesa, until 1839, 117 km, Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company, first German long-distance railway, first steam only railway in Germany, included first standard gauge rail tunnel in continental Europe 1838 22 September Berlin: Potsdam: Zehlendorf, 26.4 km, Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway, first steam railway in Prussia: 1 December Brunswick ...