In 2005, the public company was split into 2 companies: Infrabel, which manages the rail network and SNCB itself, which manages the freight and passenger services.

This is particularly so in Sydney and Melbourne, where headways on many lines in the core of the network reach 3 – 5 minutes in peaks and 10 – 20 minutes off peak ( about 18 hours a day ) and enter an underground loop for passenger distribution in the city centre ; and where ridership per capita exceeds the sum of metro and commuter rail in comparable North American urban areas such as Toronto, Boston or the San Francisco Bay Area.

* Cyclops, a nickname for DM 556, an NZR DM class unit on the rail passenger network of Wellington, New Zealand

Most passenger train services originate or terminate at Helsinki Central railway station, and a large proportion of the passenger rail network radiates out of Helsinki.

Helsinki currently operates 12 tramlines on a network of approximately of track in passenger service.

The state owned company that owns and maintains Greece's railway network is called OSE, while TrainOSE is the company responsible for operating all passenger and freight trains.

Not only was good passenger service established by the late 1840s, but an excellent network of freight lines reduce the cost of shipping coal, and made products manufactured in Scotland competitive throughout Britain.

Like many large Australian cities, Hobart once operated passenger tram services, a trolleybus network consisting of six routes which operated until 1968.

It is based on an extensive domestic airline network where all major cities can be reached by passenger plane.

In January 2007 work began on a 3. 5 km extension of the metre-gauge State Railway of Thailand network across the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge to Thanaleng Railway Station, a new passenger and freight terminal in Dongphosy village, 20 km east of Vientiane.

The 2000 guidelines said: ' It has not been designed as a brand or identity, but to explain to rail travellers that there is a National Railway network and material carrying this descriptor covers all passenger Train Companies.

About 20 privately-owned Train Operating Companies, each franchised for a defined term by government, operate passenger trains on the main rail network in Great Britain.

In particular, its customers, the passenger and freight train operators, were desperate for regulatory action to force the company to improve its stewardship of the network and its performance.

The National Rail network of 10, 072 route miles ( 16, 116 km ) in Great Britain and 189 route miles ( 303 route km ) in Northern Ireland carries over 18, 000 passenger and 1, 000 freight trains daily.

Trams are the second most used form of public transport in overall boardings in Melbourne after the commuter railway network, with a total of 182. 7 million passenger trips — a 4. 1 % year-on-year patronage growth — in the 2010 – 2011 year.

Passenger trains connect from Suvalki, Hrodno and Lithuania to Warsaw and the rest of the European passenger network.

On 28 November 2003 the TGV network carried its one-billionth passenger, second only to the Shinkansen's five billionth passenger in 2000.

The entire network is owned by the Norwegian National Rail Administration, while all domestic passenger trains except the Airport Express Train are operated by Norges Statsbaner ( NSB ).

The network was used to broadcast programming to riders aboard its passenger trains, with coverage primarily in central and eastern Canada.

There is a network of passenger buses, and the most common vehicle in government and private use is the four-wheel-drive pickup.

The Snow Hill tunnel was re-opened to passenger trains after 72 years, allowing passenger services to begin on the full Thameslink network in May 1988.

When the Viking raids resumed in 892, Alfred was better prepared to confront them with a standing, mobile field army, a network of garrisons, and a small fleet of ships navigating the rivers and estuaries.

Zanzibar now has an improved and thriving sea transport network, by which public owned ships and private speed boats serve the ports of Zanzibar, which was renovated by the help of European Union.

It operated a network of road motor ( bus ) routes, was a part of the Railway Air Services, and owned ships, docks and hotels.

Maritime trade was facilitated by a network of wells that provided fresh water to Cham and foreign ships along the coast of Champa and the islands of Cu Lao Cham and Ly Son.

Some of the network of wells that was used to provide fresh water to Cham and foreign ships still remains.

Examples of national facilities include the NSF ’ s national observatories, with their giant optical and radio telescopes ; its Antarctic research sites ; its high-end computer facilities and ultra-high-speed network connections ; the ships and submersibles used for ocean research ; and its gravitational wave observatories.

However the network linked with coastal port cities such as London, Liverpool, and Bristol, where cargo could be exchanged with sea going ships for import and export.

The establishment of weather ships proved to be so useful during World War II that the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) established a global network of 13 weather ships in 1948.

The RFA was first established in 1905 to provide coaling ships for the Navy in an era when the change from sail to coal-fired steam engines as the main means of propulsion meant that a network of bases around the world with coaling facilities or a fleet of ships able to supply coal were necessary for a fleet to operate away from its home country.

As the network of British bases overseas shrank during the end of the Empire, the Navy increasingly relied on the RFA to supply its ships during routine deployments.

It enabled ships and aircraft to determine their position by receiving very low frequency ( VLF ) radio signals transmitted by a network of fixed terrestrial radio beacons, using a receiver unit.

In 1861 FitzRoy had established a network of 15 coastal stations from which visual gale warnings could be provided for ships at sea.

To support and provide facilities for the capital ships to refuel and rearm, German Naval Command ( OKM ) established a network of tankers and supply ships in the Rheinubung operational area.

After Rheinubung the Royal Navy made a concerted effort to round up the network of supply ships deployed to refuel and rearm the Rheinubung ships.

Picard arranges the fleet to form a detection network that should observe any cloaked ships that pass the blockade.

Salerno was chosen because it was closer to air bases, experienced better surf conditions for landing, allowed transport ships to anchor closer to the beaches, had narrower beaches for the rapid construction of exit roads, and had an excellent pre-existing road network behind the beaches.

An extensive postal and telegraph system and a river navigation network with government ships connected the coast to the interior.

While the Navy Board operated the dockyards, it depended on a network of suppliers for many of the commodities needed for building and repairing ships.

Finally, the Regent tells Londo that he has completed his final act for " them "-he has sent away all of the ships protecting Centauri Prime on a false emergency, and he has turned off the planet's defense network, thus rendering it defenseless against the Narn / Drazi fleet.

However it was in 1967, under Greene's directorship, that the corporation began a dedicated pop radio network for the first time with Radio 1, taking most of its DJs and music policy from offshore pirate radio ships, like Radio Caroline, which were now illegal because the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act had removed a loophole.