Alexandria is served by the Norfolk & Southern Railway with a connector which allows rail traffic to flow smoothly between lines servicing east – west and north – south destinations.

Several lines in China such as Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Mass Rapid Transit, the Beijing – Tianjin Intercity Railway, and the Shanghai – Nanjing High-Speed Railway, serve a similar role with many more under construction or planned.

Two lines operated-the Demerara-Essequibo Railway, from Vreed en Hoop to Parika () and the Demerara-Berbice Railway, from Georgetown to Rosignol ().

There is a campaign to bring some closed lines back into service, in particular the Limerick-Sligo line ( the Western Railway Corridor ), to facilitate economic regeneration in the west, which has lagged behind the rest of the country.

All lines are operated by Kyushu Railway Company ( JR Kyushu )

It is the second largest metro system in the world in terms of route miles, after the Shanghai Metro and part of the largest system in terms of route miles when taken together with the Docklands Light Railway. The light metro lines in London are operated by the Docklands Light Railway, whereas the Shanghai Metro is a group of four companies which operate heavy rail rapid transit and light metro lines.

MTC leases fiber-optic lines from the Mongolian Railway Authority and connects to all aimags and soums.

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The Tube map is a schematic transit map representing the lines and stations of London's rapid transit railway systems, namely the London Underground ( commonly known as the Tube, hence the name ), the Docklands Light Railway, London Overground and the Emirates Air Line cable car.

** SSR ( Sub Surface Railway ): Metropolitan, District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines

The Chavez government has launched a National Railway Development Plan designed to create 15 railway lines across the country, with of track by 2030.

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Railway employees had refused to handle Pullman cars in sympathy with the strikers ; this action threatened to paralyze the nation's rail lines.

After this venture failed, electric trams returned on 5 May 1906, with the opening of the Victorian Railways ' " Electric Street Railway " from St Kilda to Brighton, and was followed on 11 October 1906 with the opening of the North Melbourne Electric Tramway and Lighting Company ( NMETL ) system, which opened two lines from the cable tram terminus at Flemington Bridge to Essendon and Saltwater River ( now Maribyrnong River ).

However, he never achieved his ultimate goal — a monopoly of the city's streetcar lines: the South Side's Chicago Street Railway remained forever out of his reach.

The railroad became the Rio Grande Western Railway in 1889 as part of a finance plan to upgrade the line from narrow gauge to standard gauge, and built several branch lines in Utah to reach lucrative coal fields.

With the exception of the line from Wuppertal to Remscheid ( and continuing to Solingen and operated as the RB 47 ) and the Prince William Railway to Essen ( now S-Bahn line S 9 ), all of the branch lines connecting to main line in the city of Wuppertal are now closed.

He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and Pacific Northwest.

However, Hill, without the benefit of a central company, managed to acquire the Colorado and Southern Railway lines into Texas, and to build the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.

The ferry from Onike on the north Shimoshima to Kuchinotsu, at the southern tip of the Shimabara Peninsula, is run by the Shimabara Railway and operates hourly each day.

Haiti is known to be the first in the Caribbean with a Railway system in the Urban of Port-au-Prince and later a Project that was supposed to run by The Company Mc Donald from Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haitian, and From Port-au-Prince to Les Cayes it did not completed.

In 2004 a light rail system, Luas, was opened in Dublin serving the central and western suburbs, run by Veolia under franchise from the Railway Procurement Agency.

* Iron Duke was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.

In the late 1920s, work began on the Thakhek – Tan Ap railway, that would have run between Thakhek, Khammuan Province and Tan Ap Railway Station, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam through the Mu Gia Pass.

* 1951 – Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.

* 1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U. S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.

This was a prototype for a proposed Waterloo and Whitehall Railway that would have run under the River Thames linking Waterloo and Charing Cross.

* Quicksilver was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, formerly named St. George before 1907

The Rainhill Trials were an important competition in the early days of steam locomotive railways, run in October 1829 in Rainhill, Lancashire ( now Merseyside ) for the nearly completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

* 1962 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line ( UK ) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.

* Ulysses was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915 ; renamed Grierson after 1895

* Wellington was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

* May 14 – The first volunteer-run passenger trains run on Talyllyn Railway, Wales.

The other station, Kidderminster Town, is that of the preserved Heritage Railway line, Severn Valley Railway ; trains run from here to Bridgnorth.

* Crusader was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

The proposed railway into Laos would run between Vung Ang, a port in Ha Tinh Province, to connect with the North – South Railway at Tan Ap Railway Station in Quang Binh Province, then crossing through the Mu Gia Pass towards Thakhek.

* Worcester was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, formerly named Thames up to 1895

; 1920: In the west, a short connecting link was made from Wood Lane station to join the Great Western Railway ( GWR )- operated line, the Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway, allowing trains to run to Ealing Broadway.

This would have enabled the Central London Railway to run trains through to Richmond and possibly beyond.

On 29 May 1854 the Midland Railway had laid a third rail along their tracks from Bristol to Gloucester to give a mixed gauge so that they could operate standard gauge passenger trains while broad gauge goods trains could still run to collieries north of Bristol.

To the east was the ramshackle LC & D Railway, on the west the up-market LB & SCR — the Brighton Line, which went to Worthing, the fashionable, expensive town the gentleman who found baby Jack was travelling to at the time ( and after which Jack was named ).

Victoria University of Wellington's Pipitea Campus: the west wing of Wellington Railway Station | Railway Station

In 1886, Yerkes and his business partners used a complex financial deal to take over the North Chicago Street Railway and then proceeded to follow this with a string of further take-overs until he controlled a majority of the city's street railway systems on the north and west sides.

In 1887, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a branch line from Neva ( 3 miles west of Strong City ) to Superior, Nebraska.

On the southern side of the town, on a triangle of land bounded on the east by the A37, on the north by the line of the former East Somerset Railway, and on the west by Cannard's Grave Road, is Tadley Acres, a modern housing development built on land partly belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall.

The Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway opened a branch off the Bristol and Exeter line west of the city on 18 April 1867, the trains being operated by the B & ER and using their platforms at Temple Meads.

From around 1902 to 1905 the Stanley, Merrill and Phillips Railway ran a line up the west end of the county through Polley, Gilman, Hannibal and Jump River.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( running east to west ) and the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, which soon became the Norfolk and Western Railway ( running north to south ).

In 1880, the main line of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway was extended west from San Antonio, connecting to the Mexican Railway in Piedras Negras.

* 1882 The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway extended its line west from Belton to Lampasas.

The Houston and Texas Central Railway and the International – Great Northern Railroad and skirted the county to the west and south in 1870, giving the local economy a boost.

By 1913, the line had been extended from its original northern terminus at Baker Street to the west with interchange stations with the Great Central Railway at Marylebone and the Great Western Railway at Paddington, and a new station at Edgware Road.

" The city of Huntington was named for Collis P. Huntington, who built it as the western terminus for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ) on the land west of the mouth of the Guyandotte River at the Ohio River.

In 1887, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a branch line from Neva ( 3 miles west of Strong City ) to Superior, Nebraska.

The London and Southampton Railway Company was the first to drive a railway line from east to west through Battersea, in 1838, terminating at Nine Elms at the north west tip of the area.