Most of the Line Islands including Christmas Island, the Phoenix and even the Union ( Tokelau ) islands ( until 1925 ) were incorporated piecemeal into the Gilbert and Ellice Islands over the next 20 years.

Kiritimati or Christmas Island is a Pacific Ocean raised coral atoll in the northern Line Islands, and part of the Republic of Kiribati.

Some communications, transport and logistics facilities, however, were converted for civilian use and it is due to these installations that Christmas Island came to serve as the administrative center for the Line Islands.

The British Empire had established a submarine cable station for the All Red Line on nearby Fanning Island.

Starting September 17, 2001, and service was suspended and respectively replaced by the ( which was extended to Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue via the BMT Montague Street Tunnel, BMT Fourth Avenue Line, and BMT Sea Beach Line ) and the ( also extended via Fourth Avenue to Bay Ridge – 95th Street ).

* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in Umberto Eco's novel " The Island of the Day Before " (" L ' isola del giorno prima ", 1994 ), a story about a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped at an island at the International Date Line.

It is reached via the Amtrak-owned East River Tunnels ( the only LIRR-used trackage not owned by the LIRR ) from the Main Line in Long Island City.

* The Main Line runs from Long Island City east to Greenport ; trains using the Northeast Corridor and the East River Tunnels from New York Penn Station join the line at Sunnyside Yard.

* The Montauk Branch runs from Long Island City to Montauk, meeting the Main Line at Long Island City and Jamaica.

Operating merchant transmission projects in the United States include the Cross Sound Cable from Long Island, New York to New Haven, Connecticut, Neptune RTS Transmission Line from Sayreville, N. J., to Newbridge, N. Y, ITC Holdings, Inc. transmission system in the midwest, and Path 15 in California.

* This is the year that the Hong Kong MTR South Island Line east section is expected to be completed.

These include Great Stirrup Cay, owned by Norwegian Cruise Line, Little Stirrup Cay otherwise known as Royal Caribbean International's " Coco Cay ", Carnival Corporation's Little San Salvador Island or " Half Moon Cay ", and Castaway Cay, of Disney Cruise Line.

But in 1673, the Duke of York had commissioned a survey line of his territory ( called the Transpeninsular Line ) that ran across the widest part of the peninsula through Fenwick Island, about 15 miles south of Cape Henlopin.

When Lonnie Donegan had a hit with " Rock Island Line ", written by Huddie Ledbetter ( Lead Belly ), Morrison felt he was familiar with and able to connect with skiffle music as he had been hearing Lead Belly before that.

Four different Metra commuter rail lines ( Metra Electric Main Line, Southwest Service, Rock Island District and Heritage Corridor ) connect the parts of the county with the Chicago Loop.

The former Staten Island Railway connects with the Raritan Valley Line in Cranford.

Works in Ireland include the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge Dublin, which consists of a bridge over the railway and a bridge over the river Liffey ( unbuilt ) and two tiered sunken gardens ; Heywood Gardens, County Laois ( open to the public ) consisting of a hedge garden, lawns, tiered sunken garden and a belvedere ; extensive changes and extensions to Lambay Castle, Lambay Island near Dublin consisting of a circular battlement enclosing the restored and extended castle and farm building complex, upgraded cottages and stores near the harbour, a real tennis court, a large guest house ( The White House ), a boathouse and a chapel ; alterations and extensions to Howth Castle, County Dublin ; the unbuilt Hugh Lane gallery straddling the River Liffey on the site of the Ha ' penny Bridge and the unbuilt Hugh Lane Gallery on the west side of St Stephen's Green ; a Lodge at Costelloe, County Galway ( that was used for refuge by J Bruce Ismay the Chairman of the White Star Line following the sinking of the Titanic ) and a hunting lodge near Rosapenna in northern County Donegal, most recently used as a youth hostel.

On July 15, 1881, the gang was believed to have been responsible for the robbery of the Rock Island Line at Winston in which a conductor and passenger were killed.

The Daviess County Savings Association and the Gallatin Opera House have since been torn down although the Winston Rock Island Line train station still stands and is used by the historical society.

* Vostok Island, located in the south of Kiribati's Line Islands

It had no permanent settlers until people from other parts of Barter Island and northern Alaska moved to the area around the construction of a runway and Distant Early Warning Line station in the 1950s.

Rail services that connect the towns in the New Territories with the city centres of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island are provided by the East Rail Line, West Rail Line and Tung Chung Line.

The railroad connected Lower Manhattan via the South Ferry to Greenport on the North Fork of Long Island, where a ferry connected to Stonington, Connecticut to a rail link that continued to Boston.

Cape Breton Island is joined to the mainland by the Canso Causeway, which was completed in 1955, enabling direct road and rail traffic to and from the island, but requiring marine traffic to pass through the Canso Canal at the eastern end of the causeway.

In 1910, it was noted in a discussion with the Minister of Railways that a fruit grower at Port Albert ( near Wellsford, less than 150 km from Auckland ) had found it cheaper to ship his canned fruit to Lyttleton in the South Island by boat, and thence back to Auckland again, rather than pay rail freight rates from nearby Wellsford to Auckland.

The port, which consists of separate facilities at Apapa and Tin Can Island, has a rail connection to points inland.

Of this, uses a broad rail gauge of, while a narrow gauge of is used on a 957-km ( 595-mile ) stretch of railway on Sakhalin Island.

The endemic Inaccessible Island rail, the smallest extant flightless bird in the world, is only found on Inaccessible Island.

* Inaccessible Island rail

Passenger rail service to Victoria is provided by Via Rail, which operates the Victoria – Courtenay train north, along the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, to the cities of Nanaimo, Courtenay, and points between.

) After the rail line's initial steep climb through the bluffs of west Omaha and out of the Missouri River Valley, the route followed the Platte River west through Nebraska, establishing many townships along the way ( Elkhorn, Grand Island, North Platte, Ogallala, Sidney, Nebraska ), the Colorado Territory ( Julesburg ), the Wyoming Territory ( Cheyenne, Laramie, Green River, Evanston ), the Utah Territory ( Ogden, Brigham City, Corinne ), and connecting with the Central Pacific at Promontory Summit.

The Long Island Rail Road or LIRR is a commuter rail system serving the length of Long Island, New York, stretching from Manhattan to the easternmost tip of Suffolk County, New York.

New York City Transit Authority buses and subways, Metro North and Long Island Rail Road, and buses, commuter rail, and light rail operated by New Jersey Transit are also independent of PANYNJ.

The Port Authority operates the Port Authority Trans-Hudson ( PATH ) rapid transit system linking lower and midtown Manhattan with New Jersey, the AirTrain Newark system linking Newark International Airport with New Jersey Transit and Amtrak via a station on the Northeast Corridor rail line, and the AirTrain JFK system linking JFK with Howard Beach ( Subway ) and Jamaica ( Subway and Long Island Rail Road ).

Milk Bar film-set from Strictly Ballroom at former Darling Island Junction rail yard, Pyrmont, New South Wales | Pyrmont

Since 1973, a rail ferry operates across the strait, connecting the port of Vanino, Khabarovsk Krai on the mainland with Kholmsk on Sakhalin Island.

The Department of Conservation had received warning signals from the lahar warning system ( ERLAWS ) at around 10: 30 that morning and closed all major roads in the area ( trapping thousands of motorists ) and shut down the main rail system for the North Island.

Russia wasted little time after the Triple Intervention to move men and materials down into the Liaodong to start building a railroad from both ends — Port Arthur and Harbin, as it already had railway construction in progress across northern Inner Manchuria to shorten the rail route to Russia's sole Pacific Ocean naval base at Sakhalin Island, a port closed by ice four months of each year.

Future development will include further office buildings and retail development, Sun Island Hotel and Water Park, an amphitheater, restaurants, and a Metra Star Line rail station.

Kyle Railroad operates rail via the former Rock Island Railroad which runs east-west through Colby.

In 1880, the Union Pacific Railroad completed a branch line from Grand Island to St. Paul, Nebraska, shortening the distance from the Valley County settlements to rail transport.

* Monarch ( earlier called Atherton, then Eatherton ), was one of the settlements that sprang up along the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail line, when it came through the valley in the late 1870s.

Most of Barnum Island is separated from the Village of Island Park by the LIRR's rail line to Long Beach.