Diesel and electric locomotives were manufactured for South African Railways, Nyasaland Railways, Malawi, Nigeria, Trans-Zambezi Railway and Pakistan ; DMUs for Jamaica Railway Corporation ; and EMUs for National Railways of Mexico.

* Railways of Jamaica

* May 11 – Japanese National Railways ' ferry Shiun Maru sinks after collision with sister ship Uko Maru in thick fog off Takamatsu, Shikoku, in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan ; 166 passengers ( many children ) and two crew are killed.

Passenger traffic on the old North Somerset line ceased on 2 November 1959 but many more closures followed after the publication of Dr Beeching's The Reshaping of British Railways in 1963.

The Swiss Federal Railways use many multiple units, mainly on regional lines ( S-Bahn ).

Railways in Africa are still developing or not practically used for passenger purposes in many countries, but the following countries have inter-city services between major cities:

Japan has six main regional passenger railway companies, known collectively as Japan Railways Group or simply as JR. Four JR companies operate the " bullet trains " on very fast and frequent Shinkansen lines that link all the larger cities, including Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Fukuoka and many more.

Many Train Operating Companies ( TOCs ) such as Southern have altered their penalty fare policies and have removed many permit to travel machines ; while others, such as Southeastern and Chiltern Railways, have installed more machines recently.

On 18 August 1954, prior to commencing the restoration, in an inspection, the first of many, Colonel McMullen of the Ministry of Transport, Railways Inspectorate, accompanied by Alan Pegler, several directors and other supporters, walked the line from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog.

The Swiss Federal Railways have many high-class ( listed ) buildings from well-known architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Santiago Calatrava or Max Vogt.

It is possible to travel between specified stations on the trains operated by the Masovian Railways using many types of tickets for Warsaw public transport ( Warsaw Integrated Ticket Area ).

Railways, until the rise of the personal automobile and creation of taxpayer-funded all-weather highways, were the only viable long-distance land transportation available in Canada for many years.

D., FRIBA, MRTPI, RDI ( 12 May 1875 – 1 May 1960 ) was a Bolton-born English architect best known for designing many London Underground stations during the 1920s and 1930s, for Bristol Central Library, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London's headquarters at 55 Broadway and for the University of London's Senate House.

It is the starting point and terminus for most of Japan's Shinkansen high-speed rail lines, and is served by many local and regional commuter lines of Japan Railways, as well as the Tokyo Metro network.

Jane's World Railways yearbook contains many though not all loading gauge diagrams.

* Captain Harlock, or characters indistinguishable from him, have made frequent " unbilled cameo " appearances in many other works of Leiji Matsumoto, including Galaxy Express 999, Queen Emeraldas, and Galaxy Railways as the joker in a deck of playing cards.

The absorption of the Canadian Northern Railway into the Canadian National Railways meant the loss of many CNoR facilities, as the Canadian Northern route through Port Arthur was downgraded by the new CNR.

Although Shorinji Kempo was originally introduced in Japan in the late 1940s and 1950s through large scale programmes involving employees of major national organizations ( e. g. Japan Railways ) it subsequently became popular in many other countries and now, per the World Shorinji Kempo Organization, involves over 1. 5 million people in 33 countries.

The Railways Act 1921, also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government of David Lloyd George intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition, and to retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a Government-controlled railway during and after the Great War of 1914-1918.

Despite early troubles arising from factions within the new company, the LMS went on to build some very successful designs ; many lasted until the end of steam traction on British Railways in 1968.

However, many names have been shortened to use only the root word rail-as in the case of Queensland Rail, which used to be Queensland Railways.

Railways changed employment in many ways.

The Class 14s, like many other early types of diesel, had an extremely short life with British Railways, in this case not because of poor reliability but because many of its envisaged duties disappeared on the BR network a few years after they came into use.

Railways in the Republic were converted to diesel locomotive traction early, and swiftly, due to the run down nature of many of the steam engines, lack of coal, and a desire for modernisation.

Beeching's 1963 report The Re-shaping of British Railways resulted in the closure of many branch lines like the one portrayed in the film.

Railways are a safe land transport system when compared to other forms of transport.

By the early 1970s, operational problems on the Port Sudan-Khartoum section of Sudan Railways had resulted in inadequate supplies of petroleum products reaching Khartoum and other parts of the country.

The Swiss Federal Railways run some 5000 passenger trains covering approximately 274, 000 kilometres daily, half of which are trains operated by long distance services the other half being regional and suburban services.

The other one is the Tanzania Railways Corporation, which provides services between Dar-es-Salaam and Kigoma, a town on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and between Dar-es-Salaam and Mwanza, a city on the shores of Lake Victoria.

The first combined map was published in 1908 by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) in conjunction with four other underground railway companies using the " Underground " brand as part of a common advertising initiative.

The Vietnamese railway network is owned and operated by the state-owned enterprise Vietnam Railways ( VNR ), which operates a number of different subsidiaries involved in construction, communications, training, and other activities connected to railway maintenance.

Over the next three years, the Ministry of Railways drew up more ambitious plans to extend the line to Beijing ( through a tunnel to Korea ) and even Singapore, and build connections to the Trans-Siberian Railway and other trunk lines in Asia.

On 1 July 1933 the Metropolitan and the Metropolitan District Railways were amalgamated with other Underground railways, tramway companies and bus operators to form the London Passenger Transport Board.

Following independence in 1947, he joined the latter's government and became one of Prime Minister Nehru's principal lieutenants, first as Railways Minister ( 1951 – 56 ), and then in a variety of other functions, including Home Minister.

One major anomaly remained in the railway's operations: the 1889 Regulation of Railways Act had required, amongst other measures, that all British passenger trains be fitted with continuous brakes.

* The 2012 movie, The Woman in Black used Horsted Keynes station as one of the 3 railway scences, the other 2 locations being the heritage Colne Valley and Mangapps Farm Railways in Essex.

Along with the other members of the " Big Four " British railway companies ( GWR, LNER and SR ), the LMS was nationalised on 1 January 1948, becoming part of the state-owned British Railways.

On one side was the London Midland Region of British Railways ; on the other was the Eastern Region.

However the line ended up being built by the Cambrian Railways engineer, with consequent conservative 4-wheel wagon and other provisions.

It owns its rolling stock ( nine 14WE, four 19WE and two out of 13 27WE EMUs ordered as of September 2011 ), but uses tracks belonging to Polish State Railways, sharing them with other rail operators.

In the UK, the Regulation of Railways Act 1889 introduced a series of requirements on matters such as the implementation of interlocked block signalling and other safety measures as a direct result of the Armagh rail disaster in that year.

The town used to have several other stations but these have all closed since the publication of the Reshaping of British Railways ( the so called Beeching Axe ) report in the 1960s.

This article gives rail usage statistics by country according to the International Union of Railways and other sources.

There are two connections between the Metro network and the Romanian Railways network, one at IMGB ( connecting to the Bucharest Belt Ring ), the other at Ciurel ( connecting via an underground passage to the Cotroceni-Militari industrial railway ).

Railways connect the city to other cities in the region including Osaka.

The other major change to the station under British Railways was the gradual development of services to the new Gatwick Airport railway station after its opening in June 1958.

A further Act, passed in 1846, changed the name of the company to the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company and authorised the acquisition of the Shrewsbury Canal and other canals in the east Shropshire network ( linking modern-day Telford with the River Severn to the south at Coalport ).

The other was sold to the Finnish Railways and nicknamed " Leena ".