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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.
Railway Empire is a railroad construction and management simulation game developed by Gaming Minds Studio and published by Kalypso Media.It was announced in early 2017 and released on 26 January 2018 for Linux and Microsoft Windows, 30 January 2018 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, [3] [4] and 14 February 2020 for Nintendo Switch.
Passenger train service through the depot declined from a peak of 125 daily trains during World War II to just one route when Amtrak began operation in 1971—the Empire Builder. [3] Amtrak opted to consolidate all of its Twin Cities service at the Great Northern Depot, shuttering St. Paul's Union Depot.
1848 – First railway line in Spain, built between Barcelona and Mataró. 1848 – First railway in South America, British Guyana. The railway was designed, surveyed and built by the British-American architect and artist Frederick Catherwood. John Bradshaw Sharples built all the railway stations, bridges, stores, and other facilities.
Railways with a railway track gauge of 5 ft (1,524 mm) first appeared in the United Kingdom and the United States. This gauge became commonly known as "Russian gauge", because the government of the Russian Empire chose it in 1843. Former areas and states (such as Finland) of the Empire have inherited this standard. [1]
Mashinky is a strategy game with railway transport. The aim of the game is to create a railway empire on a generated map across seven historical eras from the age of steam to the super-modern magnetic levitation sets. The game is a unique symbiosis of realistic graphics and a square construction world, all with rules reminiscent of board games.
The station opened in 1886 to serve the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway, a predecessor of the Rock Island. The ashlar and wood building has a Richardsonian Romanesque design with a side-facing stone gable and an octagonal turret. The interior of the station includes a waiting room, a ticket office, and the station agent's quarters.
The Beeching cuts had a significant impact on rail transport in Wales, closing a large number of railway stations. Since then some stations have reopened in Wales and following Welsh devolution, the Wales and Borders passenger rail franchise was established in 2001 and the operator was taken into public ownership by the Welsh Government in 2021.