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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.
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.
All the Stations was a project organised by Marshall and Vicki Pipe to visit all 2,563 UK railway stations in the summer of 2017. [14] [15] The pair filmed much of the journey, with daily updates posted on YouTube and other social media. [16] A feature-length documentary about the journey was produced in 2018.
An Italian InterCity train at Napoli Centrale railway station Passenger trains in Europe are assigned to different categories or train types by railway companies, depending on the used rolling stock , speed, distance of travel, stopping pattern and other criteria.
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 ...
Great Continental Railway Journeys is a British television documentary series presented by Michael Portillo. [1] In the early series, Portillo explores the railway networks of continental Europe, but in later series he also ventured further afield.
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.
The Tsarskoye Selo railway's success proved that a larger gauge could be viable for railways isolated from the extant 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) gauge Western European network. [6] [7] In 1840, work started on the second railway in the Russian Empire, the Warsaw–Vienna railway in Congress Poland.