* 1980 – Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in the Republic of Ireland

It was built mainly to satisfy public demand for creation of a grade-separated right of way for the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later Long Island Rail Road ) on its way to the South Ferry at the foot of Atlantic Street ( later Atlantic Avenue ), where passengers could catch ferries to Manhattan.

Although passengers rarely have cause to refer to either document, all travel is subject to the National Rail Conditions of Carriage and all tickets are valid subject to the rules set out in a number of so-called technical manuals, which are centrally produced for the network.

National Rail is a title used to promote passenger railway services, and providing some harmonisation for passengers ( e. g. tickets to all London Terminals ), while Network Rail is the organisation owning and managing most of the fixed assets ( tracks, signals etc.

Although TOCs compete against each other for franchises, and for passengers on routes where more than one TOC operates, the strapline used with the National Rail logo is ' Britain's train companies working together '.

Rail transport is a means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks.

* Rail Passengers Council, a network established by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to protect and promote the interests of rail passengers throughout Great Britain

On August 24, 2010, Express Rail Link suffered their first reported accident in which 3 passengers were injured.

* Via Rail train service from Toronto to Sarnia ( part of the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor ) is also available ; however, this train does not cross the river, requiring passengers to make arrangements for road travel to Port Huron.

The Central Montana Rail runs a tourist train from Lewistown to Geraldine in the summer and passengers get to tour the restored depot.

Today, Vermont Rail System operates freight trains along the line, and the depot is still visited by passengers riding the Green Mountain Flyer, also operated by VTR.

At Grosmont, the line connects with the Network Rail operated Esk Valley Line, where passengers may change trains to travel to the coast at Whitby, or inland to Middlesbrough and the rest of the national network.

When NYMR trains terminate at Grosmont rather than Whitby at off-peak times, connecting trains with Northern Rail are usually available at Grosmont, allowing passengers to begin their journey at Whitby and board a steam engine at Grosmont through to Goathland or Pickering.

Mr. Ferguson boarded the third car of the east-bound Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ) commuter train from Penn Station to Hicksville, along with more than 80 other passengers.

Long Island Rail Road responded with the claim that crimes against passengers had dropped over the last few years.

Long Island Rail Road officials also made counselors available for passengers who wanted one, and sent senior railroad officials out to trains to answer riders ' questions.

London-Gatwick is one of the few journeys on the UK National Rail network for which passengers are required to choose between different operators when buying tickets — on all other flows shared by different National Rail operators tickets for immediate travel are inter-available, although some restrictions may apply on cheaper tickets.

* Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

Since the opening of the DLR, Limehouse has become a useful interchange for Essex commuters who work in the Canary Wharf area, but the two viaducts remained separate, resulting in an awkward interchange between the DLR platforms and the National Rail platforms, as passengers had to pass down and then up flights of stairs.

Following investment from Network Rail and Pembrokeshire County Council the station has now been re-built and was reopened for passengers again, on 14 May 2012.

A shuttle bus service ferries passengers to Terminal B and Terminal C. From 28 August 2009 the line was continued to Belorussky Rail Terminal, and by 2015, it is intended that a new central rail terminal will service all three of Moscow's main airports.

In the Rail Accident Investigation Branch report into an accident at New Swan Lane Level Crossing, it emerged that tram drivers were reluctant to use a rapid deceleration brake because of the potential for injury to passengers.

The Karelian Isthmus is served by a number of railways ; the trains arrive from Finlyandsky Rail Terminal and Ladozhsky Rail Terminal of Saint Petersburg:

Queensland Rail is getting thirty 3800 class locomotives from Siemens in Munich, Germany, which will arrive during late 2008 to 2009.

* The Main Street-Science World station is a major connection point for the TransLink Main Street trolley bus routes, as well as for the Via Rail and Amtrak trains that arrive and depart from the nearby Pacific Central Station

Rail services operated by East Midlands Trains depart every 30 minutes from to St Pancras International railway station, with an average journey time of 59 minutes.

The public transport connections to Moscow include express trains, suburban trains and bus shuttles which depart from the Savyolovsky Rail Terminal.

British Rail Class 416 | Class 416 train standing at Broad Street waiting to depart

The proposed East Link Light Rail will depart from Downtown Seattle and end in Overlake via Bellevue.

In Vancouver, Rocky Mountaineer trains depart from the Rocky Mountaineer Station while other rail services operate out of either Pacific Central Station ( Amtrak and Via Rail ) or Waterfront Station ( WestCoast Express ).

The station is named after the nearby Belorussky Rail Terminal, from which westward trains towards Belarus and western Europe depart.

A CrossCountry British Rail Class 170 | Class 170 numbered 170113 with a service from London Stansted Airport to Birmingham New Street railway station | Birmingham New Street First Capital Connect British Rail Class 365 | Class 365 ' networker ' numbered 365538 at Cambridge railway station | Cambridge Rail Station

Rail freight transport has also suffered at the hands of the trucking industry and will continue to do so due to the immense leverage the truck driver's union can bring to bear if they were to feel threatened.

Tramlink serves seven National Rail stations and has one interchange with the London Underground, at Wimbledon station for the District Line, and one with London Overground, at West Croydon for the East London Line ; one of the factors leading to its creation was that the area around Croydon has no Underground service.

A train at Tai Wai Station of the MTR East Rail Line

The Light Rail possesses many characteristics of a tramway, including running on streets with other traffic ( at grades ) on some of its tracks and providing services for the public in New Territories West, including Tuen Mun and Yuen Long.

Steve Bracks and Transport minister Peter Batchelor at the launch of the Regional Fast Rail project Geelong line upgrades in February 2006

However, Hutchison also introduced interchange symbols ( circles for Underground-only, squares for connections with British Rail ) that were black and allowed multiple lines through them, as opposed to Beck who used one circle for each line at an interchange, coloured according to the corresponding line.

The Østfold Line runs through Moss, stopping at Moss Station, which is the southern terminus of one service of the Oslo Commuter Rail and an intermediate stop for regional trains.

As previously promised by UP, the D & RGW 5371 was donated to the Utah State Railroad Museum at Ogden's Union Station on August 17, 2009, and will reside in the Eccles Rail Center at the south end of the building.

A train of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company | Kawasaki MARC III bi-levels at BWI Rail Station on the Penn Line headed towards Baltimore Penn Station | Baltimore.

Rail mileage in France increased from 3, 000 to 16, 000 km during the 1850s, and this growth allowed mines and factories to operate at higher production rates.

Network Rail has constructed a balcony along almost the whole width of the concourse at the first-floor level.

The Regional Bus and Rail Company of Canton Ticino provides the urban and suburban bus network of Locarno, operates the cable cars between Verdasio and Rasa, and between Intragna – Pila – Costa on behalf of the owning companies, and, together with an Italian company, the Centovalli and Vigezzina Railway which connects the Gotthard trans-Alpine rail route at Locarno with the Simplon trans-Alpine route.

The Network Rail Power Signal Box ( PSB ) for the southern end of the East Coast Main Line is at the country end of the station.

When opened it controlled 280 multiple-aspect signals and 243 motor-worked points on of routes around Bristol, the largest area controlled by a single signal box on British Rail at the time.

A high speed rail connection at Richmond to both the Northeast Corridor and the Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor are also under study.

The connection between Drayton Park and the surface platforms at Finsbury Park was eventually opened in 1976, the Northern City Line becoming part of British Rail.

The National Rail service is operated by Southeastern on the suburban Greenwich Line at Deptford railway station, the oldest passenger only railway station in London, and St Johns, as well as nearby New Cross.

The main alleged reason for this decision was that many workers in Canary Wharf lived in Essex and could change from National Rail to the Jubilee Line at Stratford, London and West Ham.

The Garrison Model Rail Club, located in cabins on the grounds at Garrison House, welcomes visits to its model railway layouts each week.