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First railway line by country. Europe was the epicenter of rail transport and has today one of the densest networks (an average of 46 km (29 mi) for every 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi) in the EU as of 2013). [10]
All the Stations is a documentary series published on YouTube, which sees Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe visit all 2,563 stations [note 1] on Great Britain's National Rail rail network, [4] [5] [6] and all 198 stations in Ireland, on the railway networks of Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland.
Each episode explores railway sites across the UK and Europe, including historical, abandoned, modern and future elements. All episodes in series 1 to 3 have one featured location from Continental Europe ; the rest of the featured locations in each episode are from the United Kingdom.
The Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) brings together 75 railway undertakings and infrastructure companies from the European Union, the candidate countries (North Macedonia and Turkey) as well as from the Western Balkan countries, Norway, and Switzerland. [1] The CER is also a member of the Group of Representative ...
The railway infrastructure of the London Underground includes 11 lines, with 272 stations.There are two types of line on the London Underground: services that run on the sub-surface network just below the surface using larger trains, and the deep-level tube lines, that are mostly self-contained and use smaller trains.
After the acquisition of the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway Company in 1906, followed by the Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State Railway Company and the Austrian Northwestern Railway in 1909, the Southern Railway was the only major company that remained private until the end of Empire. In 1914, of a total of 22,981 km of railway tracks ...
Lies within the Borough of Fareham and is 2 miles from Fareham railway station. Stanley, County Durham: 22,553: 1955: The previous station was West Stanley railway station. Maldon: 22,032: 1964 [90] Clevedon: 21,138: 1966: Bordon: 20,789: 1957: Dereham: 21,362: 1969: The town is served by a station on the Mid-Norfolk Railway, which is a ...
With a total of 29,901 kilometres (18,580 mi) of railway, France operated the second-largest European railway network in 2007. [4] As of 2021, it was among the ten longest railway networks in the world. [7] The first railway line in the country opened in 1827 from Saint-Étienne to Andrézieux.