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* Banihal-Qazigund railway tunnel ( Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel ) a part of its Udhampur – Srinagar – Baramulla rail link project, opened in October 2011, India's longest and Asia's second longest railway tunnel and reduced the distance between Quazigund and Banihal to only 11 km.
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It is the oldest railway tunnel beneath a city street in North America.
Some also claim it to be the oldest subway tunnel in the world, as it was built by the cut and cover method under a city street, specifically for the purposes of improved public safety, attaining grade separation and enhanced railway operations.
Another crossing, the Marmaray tunnel, is a long undersea railway tunnel currently under construction and is expected to be completed in 2015.
The tunnel connects end-to-end with the LGV Nord and High Speed 1 high-speed railway lines.
A railway tunnel and a commercial truck ferry service also travel between Detroit and Windsor.
This started with a shot from a " phantom ride " at the point at which the train goes into a tunnel, and continued with the action on a set representing the interior of a railway carriage, where a man steals a kiss from a woman, and then cuts back to the phantom ride shot when the train comes out of the tunnel.
The second stage, opened in 1999, was a 3 km-long tunnel linked to the first one, allowing the new " underground railway station of Monaco-Monte Carlo " to open.
It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
It is the second highest railway in the world ( following opening of the Qingzang railway in Tibet ), with the Galera summit tunnel under Mount Meiggs at and Galera station at above sea level.
It was a corporate suburb that was planned, designed, and developed as a real estate venture to help offset the costs of building a railway tunnel into the center of Montreal.
The Eskişehir-Istanbul section of the line is scheduled to be completed by 2012, and includes the Marmaray tunnel which will enter service in 2012 and establish the first direct railway connection between Europe and Anatolia. Second high-speed rail line, which has length of 212 km between Ankara and Konya become operational in 2011.
* The first railway tunnel is built en route between Liverpool and Manchester in England.
** WWII: A train stalls inside a railway tunnel outside Salerno, Italy ; 521 choke to death.
* June 16 – 108 die as two passenger trains hit the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons, France.
Although this lasts as a railway operation only until November, it demonstrates the technologically successful first use of the cylindrical wrought iron tunnelling shield devised by Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead and of a permanent tunnel lining of cast iron segments.
* 1826 – The first railway tunnel is built en route between Liverpool and Manchester in England.
It consists of a road suspension bridge and railway tunnel between Zealand and the island Sprogø, as well as a box girder bridge between Sprogø and Funen.
A road tunnel and funicular railway ease transport between the lower and upper cities.
The management said they would stop the scenic railway and they could all escape through the tunnel.
The Thurrock Viaduct carries the railway line over the tunnel approach roads, but under the bridge approach, allowing traffic on the bridge a view of the rail line.
The railway line then goes under the river in a tunnel to the east of the crossing.
In 2005, during the construction of a tunnel for one of the city's railway lines, a prehistoric site was found in the Park of Vallparadís, with stone tools and fossils of hunted animals dating back 800, 000 to 1, 000, 000 years, making this is one of the oldest prehistoric sites in Europe.
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The 10. 96 km long railway tunnel, passes through the Pir Panjal Range of middle Himalayas in Jammu and Kashmir.
He survived a grenade attack at the Gujranwala railway station when he, along with Pir Pagara and Chaudhry Zahur Elahi, was on a visit to Punjab under the banner of the opposition alliance United Democratic Front ( UDF ).
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# Armenia's railway, held by the Russian-owned South Caucasus Railway ( SCR ) ( formerly Russia ’ s state-run rail company, RZD )
The Abensberg railway station is located on the Danube Valley Railway from Regensburg to Ingolstadt.
* 1961 – The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
* 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.
* Railway gun: large-caliber weapons that are mounted on, transported by and fired from specially-designed railway wagons.
The railway came to Aberdour in 1890, with the building of the line east from the newly opened Forth Railway Bridge.
From 1882 the village was served by Aberfoyle railway station, the terminus of the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which connected to Glasgow via Dumbarton or Kirkintilloch The station closed to passenger traffic in 1951, and the remaining freight services ceased in 1959.
The first British railway to build coaches with bogies, instead of rigidly mounted axles, was the Midland Railway in 1874.
A heritage railway, the Bodmin and Wenford Railway, runs from Bodmin Parkway station via Bodmin General railway station to Boscarne Junction where there is access to the Camel Trail.
The Chennai Suburban Railway is another railway of comparison.
It ran from Yatton railway station through to Wells ( Tucker Street ) railway station and joined the East Somerset Railway to make a through route via Shepton Mallet ( High Street ) railway station to Witham.
Within this section, from near Phipps Bridge to near Reeves Corner, route 3 follows the Surrey Iron Railway, giving Tramlink a claim to the one of the world's oldest railway alignments-beside Mitcham tram stop had its name long before Tramlink.
Winding drums on the London and Blackwall Railway | London and Blackwall cable-operated railway, 1840
The first cable-operated railway, employing a moving rope and iron claws on the cars, was the London and Blackwall Railway, which opened in east London, England, in 1840.
( London's first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, had earlier also been built for cable haulage but had been converted to electric traction before opening in 1890.
* The Dominican Republic Government Railway is a narrow gauge railway.
The railway line to Kingswear was opened in 1864, the original plans for the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway line took the line across a bridge and into the town.
The railway terminated at a station called " Kingswear for Dartmouth " ( now on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway ) and a ferry took passengers across the river to the station at Dartmouth railway station, which had a dedicated pontoon.
* In September 2009 Ethiopian Railways Corporation signed a deal with China Railway Engineering Corporation for it to build the new Addis Ababa light railway transit.
* East Somerset Railway, a heritage railway in the United Kingdom
* 1948: The railway workers ' association is refounded as IFEF, the Internacia Fervojista Esperanto-Federacio ( International Railway Workers ' Esperanto Federation ) to foster the use of Esperanto in the administration of the railroads of the world ( so far, of Eurasia ).
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