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Chester station was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1903. While in the 1940s Chester was a common intermediate stop for services between New York and Washington, by the 1970s this was reduced to just one daily train; the station was also served by Amtrak's Chesapeake, which stopped both ways between Philadelphia and Washington during its existence from 1978 through 1983.
Chester railway station is located in Newtown, Chester, England. Services are operated by Avanti West Coast, Merseyrail, Northern and Transport for Wales. From 1875 to 1969, the station was known as Chester General to distinguish it from Chester Northgate. [1] The station's Italianate frontage was designed by the architect Francis Thompson.
Business History Review 1975 49(1): 37–59. in JSTOR; White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011) excerpt and text search; Wolmar, Christian. The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (2012), survey to 2012; emphasis on 19th century; 448pp excerpt and text search
Chester railway station, a railway station in Chester, England; Chester station (Toronto), a subway station in Toronto, Canada; Chester Transit Center, an intermodal station in Pennsylvania, United States; Western Railroad Stone Arch Bridges and Chester Factory Village Depot, a National Historic Landmark District in Massachusetts, United States
The Chester and Holyhead Railway was an early railway company conceived to improve transmission of Government dispatches between London and Ireland, as well as ordinary railway objectives. Its construction was hugely expensive, chiefly due to the cost of building the Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Strait .
Early forms of American railroad signaling and communication were virtually non-existent; the railroads initially managed their train operations using timetables. However, there was no means of timely communication between engineers and dispatchers, and occasionally two trains inadvertently would be sent on a collision course, or "cornfield meet."
This is the Railroad Bed of the Brighthope Railway at Winterpock, Virginia. Following the path of the old railroad today travels down Virginia State Route 10 from Bermuda Hundred on the north side of the Appomattox River and then east on Carver Heights Drive, Chester, through a landfill and housing complex, next to Bright Hope Road then along Beach Road then South on Coalboro Rd.
1893 Chester train wreck, Chester, Massachusetts; At least 14 killed [39] 1893 Battle Creek train wreck, Battle Creek, Michigan; 26 killed [40] 1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Atlantic City, New Jersey; 50 killed plus ~60 injured [41] 1897 Garrison train crash, Garrison, New York; 19 killed. Encouraged increases in track inspections [42]