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The first passenger railway train in eastern India ran from Howrah, near Calcutta to Hoogly, for distance of 24 miles, on 15 August 1854. The line was built and operated by EIR. [ 108 ] The first passenger train in South India ran from Royapuram / Veyasarapady ( Madras ) to Wallajah Road ( Arcot ) on 1 July 1856, for a distance of 60 miles.
1877 – Vacuum brakes are invented in the United States. 1879 – First electric railway demonstrated at the Berlin Trades Fair. 1881 – First public electric tram line, the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, opened in Berlin, Germany. 1881 – One of the first railway lines in the Middle East was built between Tehran and Rayy in Iran.
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 commercial maglev train was an airport shuttle introduced in 1984 at Birmingham Airport in England. [ 82 ] [ failed verification ] The Shanghai maglev train , opened in 2002, is the fastest commercial train service of any kind, operating at speeds of up to 431 km/h (268 mph). [ 83 ]
The first purpose-built passenger car, Experiment, was attached and carried dignitaries on the opening journey. It was the first time passenger traffic had been run on a steam locomotive railway. [8] The rails used for the line were wrought-iron, produced by John Birkinshaw at the Bedlington Ironworks.
This was the first railroad meant to be permanent, and the first to evolve into trackage of a common carrier after an intervening closure. In 1826 Massachusetts incorporated Quincy 's Granite Railway as a common freight carrier [ 30 ] to primarily haul granite for the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument ; operations began later that year ...
According to his son Francis, Trevithick was the first to make high-pressure steam work in England in 1799, [11] although other sources say he had invented his first high-pressure engine by 1797. [12] [13] Not only would a high-pressure steam engine eliminate the condenser, but it would allow the use of a smaller cylinder, saving space and ...
1912 - Articulated trams, invented and first used by the Boston Elevated Railway. [37] 1914 - The first application of railway electric traffic light signals was by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad's use of the US&S "Style L" colour light signal on their line through the Pacific Northwest. 1915