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A large railway network was severely curtailed in the 1950s and 1960s (in particular by the Ulster Transport Authority). Routes now include suburban services to Larne, Portadown/Newry and Bangor, as well as services to Derry. There is also a branch from Coleraine to Portrush. On Northern Ireland Railways distances are quoted in miles and metres ...
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad Depot is a historic train station located at Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri. It was built in 1869 and expanded about 1908 by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. It is a one-story, rectangular wood-frame building with a gable roof on short wood piers.
The railroad of the South East and St. Louis Railway Company, herein called the South East and St. Louis, which is leased to and operated by the Louisville and Nashville, is a partly double-track, standard-gage line, located in the States of Illinois and Indiana, extending in a general easterly direction from East St. Louis, Ill., to Evansville, Ind., a distance of 162.171 miles of which 0.199 ...
Between St. Louis and Kansas City, the train ran on the Wabash Railroad, then on the Norfolk & Western which leased the Wabash in 1964. This part of the run became a separate train on June 19, 1968, retaining the City of St Louis name until its discontinuance in April 1969; after June 1968 the Union Pacific train was the City of Kansas City ...
The railway line is part of the EU Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) infrastructure, [7] and in 2015 the Shannon Foynes Port Company received €800,000 to study the feasibility of reinstating the line. [8] In July 2022, Irish Rail published a tender to contract for the rebuilding of the line. [1]
The track gauge adopted by the mainline railways is 5 ft 3 in, or "Irish gauge". This unusual gauge is otherwise found only in the Australian states of Victoria, southern New South Wales (as part of the Victorian rail network) and South Australia (where it was introduced by the Irish railway engineer F. W. Sheilds), and in Brazil.
The Red Line is the older and longer line of the MetroLink light rail system in Greater St. Louis.It serves 29 stations across three counties and two states.. While officially light rail, the Red Line has many characteristics of a light metro, rapid transit, or semi-metro service, [1] including an independent right-of-way, a higher top speed, and level boarding at all platforms.
The first Australian railway to operate steam-powered freight and passenger services, Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, was built as a 5 ft 3 in (1600 mm) line. [4] 1858 The first Brazilian 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) railway was opened: the Companhia de Estrada de Ferro Dom Pedro II. 1863