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It was called Godavari Dam Construction Railway. It was also built by Arthur Cotton. It was used to supply stones for construction of a dam over Godavari. [105] On 8 May 1845, Madras Railway was incorporated. In the same year, the East India Railway company was incorporated. On 1 August 1849, Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR) was
1890 – The City & South London Railway was the first deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, [23] [note 1] and the first major railway to use electric traction; 1891 – Construction began on the 9,313 km (5,787 mi) long Trans-Siberian railway in Russia. Construction completed in 1904.
Had a plantation railway 044 Barbados: Had a public railway. Has a 3 km tourist line opened in 2019. 052 Belize: Had one public railway and a number of private lines 084 Brunei: Has a 4 km section of pier railway (so is outside the definition for this article) 096 Burundi: Had an internal port railway 108 Cape Verde: Had a harbour railway 132
The Railway Haters: Opposition To Railways, From the 19th to 21st Centuries (Pen and Sword, 2019). Casson, Mark. The world's first railway system: enterprise, competition, and regulation on the railway network in Victorian Britain (Oxford UP, 2009). Clapham, J. H. An economic history of modern Britain; The early railway age, 1820–1850 (1930 ...
The history of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830 covers the period up to the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first intercity passenger railway operated solely by steam locomotives. The earliest form of railways, horse-drawn wagonways, originated in Germany in the 16th century. Soon wagonways were also built in ...
Following the format of the highly successful Great British Railway Journeys and related series with Portillo as presenter, each episode features a railway journey in south-east Asia using Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Chief Cities, and Bathing, and Health Resorts of the World (1913) [a] as a historical reference, in order to consider how ...
World's railways in 1908 as presented by The Harmsworth atlas and Gazetter. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the form of British track had converged on the use of wrought iron bullhead rails supported in cast iron chairs on timber sleepers, laid in some form of ballast. In North America, the standard was T-rails and tie plates ...
Former areas and states (such as Finland) of the Empire have inherited this standard. [1] However in 1970, Soviet Railways re-defined the gauge as 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in). [2] With about 225,000 km (140,000 mi) of track, 1,520 mm is the second-most common gauge in the world, after 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge. [3]