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With the opening of Tokyo Station, the old Shinbashi Station, which had served as the Tokyo-side terminus of the Tōkaidō Line since 1872, was closed as a passenger station. After the final train departed from the old Shinbashi Station at 12:23 AM on the opening day, a special train transported staff and equipment to Tokyo Station.
First Mortgage Debenture of the Costa Rica Railway Company Ltd., issued 10 January 1888 Train arriving into the Sabana-Contraloria station in San Jose. Universidad de Costa Rica station, San Pedro, Montes de Oca Interior of an Incofer Apolo 2400 type DMU
Railroads in Costa Rica are managed by state owned Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles, Incofer, and are of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge, the same as Honduras and Nicaragua. Incofer runs the Interurbano Line around San José and freight trains in the Caribbean for ArcelorMittal operations. The first railroad in Costa Rica was opened ...
The initial train line was between Pavas and Montes de Oca, in 2005. [ 3 ] In 2008 the announcement of extending the line to Heredia started works on cleaning up the old line, trial runs were executed with derails being common, the initial service of the current rebooted Interurbano was between the Atlántico station and Heredia station , which ...
The station received a major restoration effort between 2018 and 2019, financed by the local government, the Heredia municipality, at a cost of CRC ₡348 million, and designed by architects from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology. The station was reopened on July 5, 2019. [2] [3] [4] It is an historical patrimony building of Costa Rica ...
The Nicaragua–Costa Rica San Juan River border dispute was a series of periodical conflicts between Costa Rica and Nicaragua over the correct delimitation of their common border at its east-end, and the interpretation of the navigation rights on the San Juan River established in the Cañas-Jerez Treaty of 1858.
Atlántico railway station (Spanish: Estación del Ferrocarril al Atlántico) is a railway station and historic building located in San José, Costa Rica, declared as Architectural Patrimony of Costa Rica by decree 11664-C of 29 July 1980.
The oldest evidence of human occupation in Costa Rica is associated with the arrival of groups of hunter-gatherers about 10,000 to 19,000 years BC, with ancient archaeological evidence (stone tool making) located in the Turrialba Valley, at sites called Guardiria and Florence, with matching quarry and workshop areas with presence of type clovis spearheads and South American inspired arrows.