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The Havana Suburban Railway (Spanish: Red del ferrocarril suburbano de La Habana) is a passenger suburban rail network serving the city of Havana, capital of Cuba, and its suburbs. Owned by the national company Ferrocarriles de Cuba , it represents the only suburban rail system of the Caribbean island.
By 1910, the 71-year-old Villanueva Railway Station (currently the Capitolio grounds), the first of Havana, had exceeded its capacity due to increasing urban development and population of the city. On July 20, 1910, the Congress of Cuba authorized to build the new railway station on the'Arsenal public grounds instead of the Villanueva Station ...
Cuba's railway history began on October 12, 1834, when the Queen Regent of Spain, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, approved the building of the first line. When the Compañía de Caminos de Hierro de la Habana opened the 27.5 kilometers (17.1 mi) line from Havana to Bejucal on November 19, 1837, the first steam railway line in Latin America.
The railway is the only surviving electric line in Cuba. [2] The railway was built by The Hershey Company to transport sugar to the port of Havana. The original electric interurban cars were bought from the JG Brill Company , but these were replaced by 60-year old cars from the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya in the 1990s.
Those benefiting the most are long-distance freight services with the French train Havana-Santiago being the only passenger train using one of the new Chinese locomotives regularly. In 2019, the Cuban railways received the first delivery of new Chinese-built coaches, and new services with these began in July 2019. [2] [3] Streetcar in Havana
Overhead line, 12 kV 25 Hz AC Third rail, 750 V DC (only parts of the network) Northern New Jersey–New York City Philadelphia–Atlantic City USA: NJ Transit Rail Operations: New Jersey / New York / Pennsylvania: 12 (1 UC) 238,082 (FY2017) [5] [note 2] Overhead line, 25 kV 60 Hz AC Overhead line, 12 kV 25 Hz AC (only parts of the network ...
The Havana Dress comes in 10+ hues, all of which are prettier than the next. I chose mine in navy because I'm very much a neutral kind-of-girl, but I already have my eyes on the washed slate and ...
The Havana MetroBus (Spanish: MetroBus de La Habana), shortened as MB, [1] is a public bus network serving the city of Havana, Cuba. It is the principal public transport network of the Cuban capital.