* Bay platform, a dead-end platform at a railway station which has through lines

Among the most popular year-round tourist attractions in Rio, the Corcovado railway, access roads, and statue platform are commonly crowded.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

File: EmsStnP1010002. JPG | Emsworth railway station platform

A plaque commemorating this claim to fame was displayed at Ditton railway station until it was closed in 1994 when the plaque was moved to the ticket office on the Liverpool bound platform of the nearby Widnes railway station.

As part of these proposals a new station, to be called Staines High Street railway station was due to be built between the existing Staines station, and Wraysbury railway station although planners have now decided that this will not go ahead and the existing station would have an additional platform built instead.

Milk churn s on a railway platform

It is also reputed that it was on the platform of Sidcup railway station that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first agreed to form a band, which later became the Rolling Stones.

As of 2012, the E & BASR currently plans to extend their services into Skipton ( further up the line, a further 2 miles in length-to whom the railway could interchange with services on the Airedale Line ), as well as to reconstruct platform 2 at Bolton Abbey station itself, " as part of a possible extension down to Addingham ".

The platform, Oxenhope railway station, terminus of the KWVR, 2006 )

The platform, Oxenhope railway station, terminus of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, 2006The modern village of Oxenhope encompasses what were originally separate settlements of Uppertown, Lowertown, Leeming and Hawkingstone.

The term railway platform can also mean any type of freight platform beside a rail siding for loading / unloading freight to / from rail cars.

Image: Railway pictograms. jpg | British Rail passenger safety pictographs at the end of the platform at Meols railway station

Initially the railway ran into a temporary platform at Derby, but at Nottingham a magnificent terminus had been built in Carrington Street.

This led on to motorised delivery tricycles and the manufacture of ice-cream carts, railway station platform refreshment trolleys and specialist units for the dairy and catering trades.

British Sugar is visible at the Painted photography backdrops | backdrop from the platform of Bury Saint Edmunds railway station.

Because of its role in transporting coal cargo, its railway platform is thought to have once been the longest in the world during its heyday.

The MOB begins its journey in Montreux, departing trains normally making use of platform 5 and arrivals platform 6, between the Swiss Federal Railway platforms and those of the rack and pinion railway to the Rochers de Naye.

With 4 through platforms, a bay platform facing Lauterbrunnen and a freight depot underneath the passenger station, this is the largest rack railway station in the world.

Since early 2008, Armenia's entire rail network is managed by the Russian state railway.

The Georgian railway, which runs through the town of Gori in central Georgia, is the main transport link between Armenia and the aforementioned Georgian seaports.

As of October 2008, the Armenian government is considering implementing an ambitious project to build a railway to Iran.

In June 2010, Transport Minister Manuk Vartanian revealed that Yerevan is seeking as much as $ 1 billion in loans from China to finance the railway ’ s construction.

The Abensberg railway station is located on the Danube Valley Railway from Regensburg to Ingolstadt.

The ACT is bounded by the Goulburn-Cooma railway line in the east, the watershed of Naas Creek in the south, the watershed of the Cotter River in the west, and the watershed of the Molonglo River in the north-east.

It is the oldest railway tunnel beneath a city street in North America.

Now it is an important railway junction.

A major road, Route N194, travels up the valley of the Gravona River leading to Corte and is paralleled by a scenic narrow-gauge railway.

Ajmer is at an important railway junction with Broad gauge lines to Jaipur Marwar, Udaipur, Ahmedabad, Delhi, and Mumbai and then onwards to Bangalore.

It is well connected with Jaipur, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Ujjain, Howrah, Bhopal, Mumbai, Jammu, Indore and all other major cities. There is a major technical and repair railway workshop in the city.

The town is served by Aberdare railway station and Aberdare bus station, opposite each other in the town centre.

Abergavenny railway station opened 2 January 1854 and is on the Welsh Marches Line.

The village has a cricket team ( Pentwyn CC ) and is located right next to the old railway line.

While there is an official locality named Akibahara, which is also 秋葉原 in kanji, nearby ( as part of Taitō-ku ), the area known to most people as Akihabara ( including the railway station of the same name ) also include Soto-Kanda, a part of Chiyoda-ku.

It is also reputed to be the only UK town with a railway station and a pub in the middle of a roundabout.

Trains: the city is serviced by Alfa Pendular ( Lisbon <-> Braga ; Lisbon <-> Oporto ; Faro <-> Oporto ) and Intercity ( Intercidades: Lisbon <-> Oporto and Lisbon <-> Guimarães ) trains, Regional trains, Suburban Trains ( Urbanos do Porto ) and also the Linha do Vouga, a narrow gauge railway to Águeda and Sernada do Vouga.

This axis is interrupted by a railway line and Bonn Hauptbahnhof, a building erected in 1883 / 84.

Some InterCityExpress and most InterCity trains call at Bonn Hauptbahnhof whilst the Siegburg / Bonn railway station is situated on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line outside of Bonn and serviced by InterCityExpress trains.

The upper level carries a railway, and the lower level is used for road traffic.

In railway parlance, an overbridge is a bridge crossing over the course of the railway.

The Zagreb-Bihać-Split railway line is still closed for major traffic due to this issue.