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The 7.7-kilometer-long Messina tramway came into operation in Messina on 3 April 2003 after a long gestation and construction period and more than half a century after the decommissioning of the previous urban network whose last line had been discontinued in 1951; 15 Alstom's Cityway model 5-element articulated streetcars were put into ...
Passengers were stuck on a Eurostar train in the Channel Tunnel for two-and-a-half hours after an apparent breakdown of the London to Paris service.. On one of the busiest travel days of the ...
The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it approached the station too fast and the driver's application of the train air brake was ineffective.
Sicily had at one time an extensive narrow gauge railway network. The design work was begun under at the time of the provisional management of the Southern Railways, continued by the Rete Sicula (Sicilian Railways) and built by Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian State Railways), [1] which spread over the territory of five provinces: Palermo, Trapani, Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Enna; today the FS ...
With the introduction of the Paris–Milan Frecciarossa, Trenitalia became the first company to enter France's railway market after SNCF. [7] [10] The full service between Milan and Paris was suspended on 27 August 2023 following a landslide near Modane, and is scheduled to restart in 2025. [11] The service between Paris and Lyon remains ...
Transilien Line N is a railway line of the Paris Transilien suburban rail network operated by the SNCF.The trains on this line travel between Gare Montparnasse in Paris and the west of Île-de-France region, with termini in Rambouillet, Dreux and Mantes-la-Jolie on a total of 117 km (75 mi).
Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television.The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection.
The planned destruction of Warsaw during the Second World War, Poland's national icon Frederic Chopin, the polonaise dance; Łódź – Poland's film industry; Poznań – the last steam-powered commuter train at Wolsztyn; Wrocław – Market Square, Wrocław's dwarfs, the National Rail Carriage Factory; Kraków – milk bar and the Trabant car.