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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 small company town of Hopkins (now South Melbourne), named after its owner George W. Hopkins, was built at the site. The company built a private railroad, often known as the Union Cypress Company Railroad , west from a connection with the Florida East Coast Railway in Melbourne across the St. Johns River to Deer Park .
Heritage railway 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) 16km 1862 1964 1981 Conwy Valley Railway Museum: Museum and miniature railway 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm) 1.6km 1970s Has a 0.8km long 15 in (381 mm) gauge tramway Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum: Museum N/A 0km 1951 Bala Lake Railway: Heritage railway 1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in (600 mm) 7.2km 1861 1965 1972
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's Perry Cutoff (which was part of the company's Thomasville—Dunnellon Line) was a historic rail line in northern Florida running from Monticello southeast to Perry. The line provided a shortcut through the Big Bend of Florida for rail traffic running between the Midwest and the Tampa Bay area by providing a ...
Grand Junction Railway (1833) – The line built by the company was the first trunk railway to be completed in England, and arguably the world's first long-distance railway with steam traction. London and Greenwich Railway (1836) – First steam railway in the capital, the first to be built specifically for passengers, and the first elevated ...
The Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf Railroad was assigned land grants on March 12, 1879, by the state legislature of Florida. This was accomplished by Florida State Law Chapter 3170. [1] The line was complete between Ocala and Dunellon in 1887 and used to transport phosphate and limestone. [2] It connected with the Florida Southern Railway in ...
The Florida East Coast Railway depot in Sebastian.The structure was built in 1893. Beginning in 1892, when landowners south of Daytona petitioned him to extend the railroad 80 miles (130 km) south, Flagler began laying new railroad tracks; no longer did he follow his traditional practice of purchasing existing railroads and merging them into his growing rail system.
The Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad (reporting mark FGA) is a shortline railroad owned and operated by RailUSA in the Florida Panhandle.The line consists of 430 miles (692 km) of track: a main line from Baldwin, Florida (just west of Jacksonville), through Tallahassee to Pensacola, as well as a branch from Tallahassee north to Attapulgus, Georgia.