* 1948: The railway workers ' association is refounded as IFEF, the Internacia Fervojista Esperanto-Federacio ( International Railway Workers ' Esperanto Federation ) to foster the use of Esperanto in the administration of the railroads of the world ( so far, of Eurasia ).

The workers, many of whom were already members of the American Railway Union, appealed for support to the union at its convention in Chicago, Illinois.

The Act does not apply workers who are covered by the Railway Labor Act, agricultural employees, domestic employees, supervisors, federal, state or local government workers, independent contractors and some close relatives of individual employers.

The Trans-Caspian Railway arrived in 1889, and the railway workers who built it settled in Tashkent as well, bringing with them the seeds of Bolshevik Revolution.

POWs and Asian workers were also used to build the Kra Isthmus Railway from Chumphon to Kra Buri, and the Sumatra or Palembang Railway from Pakanbaroe to Moeara.

In the summer of 1881 the Midland Railway Company moved its locomotive works from Kentish Town to the new “ Brent Sidings ”, and in October of the same year it was announced that new accommodation for its workers would be built, later the Cricklewood Railway Cottages.

ln 1872, workers of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway ( later Charlotte-Airline ; today's Southern Railway ) invaded the virgin forest.

To induce workers and businesses to favor Jersey Shore over competing towns, entrepreneurs acquired land and built the Jersey Shore Electric Street Railway, a trolley line running from the city to the New York Central shops.

Completed in 1909, the Virginian Railway ( VGN ) established engine terminal and yard facilities near Mullens which employed hundreds of workers during the first half of the 20th century.

The British Empire brought many Indian workers into East Africa to build the Uganda Railway.

Buckling the trend, a group of five workers of the São Paulo Railway, more precisely Joaquim Ambrose and Anthony Pereira ( wall painters ), Rafael Perrone ( shoemaker ), Anselmo Correia ( driver ) and Carlos Silva ( general laborer ), residents of the neighborhood of Bom Retiro.

Chinese railway workers made up the labour force for construction of two one-hundred mile sections of the Canadian Pacific Railway from the Pacific to Craigellachie in the Eagle Pass in British Columbia.

Chinese railway workers were hired for 200 miles of the Canadian Pacific Railway considered to be among the more difficult segments of the projected railway, notably the area that goes through the Fraser Canyon.

Many of the Pullman factory workers joined the American Railway Union ( ARU ), led by Eugene V. Debs, which supported their strike by launching a boycott in which ARU members refused to run trains containing Pullman cars.

* 28 September — foundation of the Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club ( CURCC ) by British railway workers in Montevideo ; it later becomes C. A.

Thousands of workers are building the Uganda Railway, Africa's first railroad, and intense heat and sickness make it a formidable task.

The plot was based on a well-known historical event, that of the Tsavo maneaters, in which many workers building the Uganda Railway were killed.

Peñarol is the successor club of Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club, which was founded on September 28, 1891 by British railway workers.

The Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club was founded on September 28, 1891, through the impetus of employees and workers of Montevideo's Central Uruguay Railway ( British-owned ) company, which had operated in Uruguay since 1878.

A " Section Chief " in the building of the Dakar-Niger Railway, pushed by African workers, Kayes, Mali, 1904

* August 9-In the United Kingdom, the Railway Regulation Act 1844 ( officially: An Act to attach certain Conditions to the Construction of future Railways ) requires every railway company to run at least one passenger train a day in both directions along the length of each of its lines, calling at every station.

The Broadway Surface Railroad's Broadway Line, a cable car line, opened on lower Broadway ( below Times Square ) in 1893, and soon became the core of the Metropolitan Street Railway, with two cable branches: the Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line and Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line.

Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.

For example, the Chicago City Railway, also designed by Eppelsheimer, opened in Chicago in 1882 and went on to become the largest and most profitable cable car system.

In 1883 the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway was opened, which had a most curious feature: though it was a cable car system, it used steam locomotives to get the cars into and out of the terminals.

( London's first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, had earlier also been built for cable haulage but had been converted to electric traction before opening in 1890.

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.

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 ).

The VR tram was called a " Street Railway " and was built using the Victorian Railways broad gauge instead of the cable tramway standard gauge of, and connected it with the St Kilda railway station, to allow trams to be moved along the St Kilda railway line for servicing at Jolimont Yard.

The Benedictine Abbey can be reached by road, by the Aeri de Montserrat cable car, or by the Montserrat Rack Railway.

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.

Early additions to the farm included the Ghost Town & Calico Railway, a narrow gauge railroad in the Ghost Town area, a San Francisco cable car, a Pan-for-Gold attraction, the Calico Mine Train dark ride and a log flume ride.

The experience on the Stockton and Darlington Railway was well-publicised, and a section of the Hetton colliery railway had been converted to cable haulage.

He is best known for creating the Great Western Railway, as well as famous steamships including the SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven ocean-going iron ship, and SS Great Eastern which laid the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable.

A rack railway, the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway, runs inside the northern flank of the mountain and ends on the Zugspitzplatt, from where a second cable car takes passengers to the top.

The vessel's head was often buried in the solid seas, and the men, soaked and sweating, yelled out hoarsely, “ Paddy on the Railway ,” and “ We're Homeward Bound ,” while they tugged at the brakes, and wound the long, hard cable in, inch by inch.

The FART ( Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi – Regional Bus and Rail Company of Canton Ticino ) provides the urban and suburban bus network of Locarno, Switzerland, operates the cable cars between Verdasio and Rasa, and between Intragna – Pila – Costa on behalf of the owning companies, and, together with the Italian company Società Subalpina di Imprese Ferroviarie S. p. A. ( SSIF ) the Centovalli and Vigezzina Railway which connects the Gotthard trans-Alpine rail route at Locarno railway station with the Simplon trans-Alpine route at Domodossola, Italy.

In 1912, Port Alberni was incorporated with the arrival of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, and planned arrival of the Canadian National Railway, and the trans-Pacific telegraph cable at Bamfield.

When the construction was finished, the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway took over the cable car as a tourist operation.

On erection of the obelisk in 1878 a time capsule was concealed in the front part of the pedestal, it contained: A set of 12 photographs of the best looking English women of the day, a box of hairpins, a box of cigars, several tobacco pipes, a set of imperial weights, a baby's bottle, some children's toys, a shilling razor, a hydraulic jack and some samples of the cable used in erection, a 3 ' bronze model of the monument, a complete set of British coins, a rupee, a portrait of Queen Victoria, a written history of the strange tale of the transport of the monument, plans on vellum, a translation of the inscriptions, copies of the bible in several languages, a copy of Whitaker's Almanack, a Bradshaw Railway Guide, a map of London and copies of 10 daily newspapers.

It gave its name to Minories railway station, built in 1840 as a part of the London and Blackwall Railway – a cable railway.

His achievements were honoured in 2004 when Dargan Bridge, Dublin a new cable stayed bridge for Dublin's Light Railway Luas was named after him.

The industrial development and industrialisation attracted other railways, including the Neath and Brecon Railway, the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, and the South Wales Mineral Railway with its cable powered incline.