* Construction of the Uganda Railway starts.

* May 5 – Construction of the Swanage Railway begins.

* Construction of Trans-Siberian Railway begins.

Construction began in 1898 on the Trans-Siberian Railway connecting Chita and Vladivostok, starting at each end and meeting halfway.

Construction necessitated the removal of decorative masonry forming two arches from that side of the station, bearing the legend " Southern Railway ".

Construction of the Metropolitan Railway close to King's Cross station in 1861

Construction of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas across Pecos County in 1913 caused a boom in land speculation and community growth, as did irrigation projects along the Pecos River.

Construction of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway depot shifted the focus of trade south to Wellman.

Lane Brothers Construction Company was the contractor for constructing of the Tidewater Railway, including its crossing of the existing north-south Southern Railway in Campbell County.

Construction began in 1906 under the name Portland & Seattle Railway, proceeding eastward from Vancouver, Washington.

Construction of the Cairngorm Mountain Railway started in 1999.

An accord was signed in April 2012 with the China Railway Construction Corp for a $ 11bn road and double track rail bridge.

After JNRSC was dissolved in October 1998, its shares of JR West were transferred to the government-owned Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation ( JRCC ), which merged into the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency ( JRTT ) as part of a bureaucratic reform package in October 2003.

He added that the Government hoped to appoint the contractor for the project this year and Malaysia is still in the midst of talking with China Railway Construction, but nothing is confirmed yet.

Construction of the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway began in 1845.

Construction of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway ( O.

Construction on the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway ( SA & MR ) began in 1837 to provide passenger transport between Manchester and Sheffield.

Construction 0was completed in 2007 and the terminal opened on 21 January 2008 Both the terminal and the double track were to use the newly developed signaling system Merkur, but the Norwegian Railway Inspectorate would not give permission for the system to be installed.

Students were educated in the two majors at the time: Railway Construction and Electric Mechanic Engineering.

The original two majors became two departments: the Railway Construction Department and the Electric Engineering Department.

Airfix also produced a small number of Card Construction kits for use with the Airfix Railway System.

The passage of the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Acts was made possible by the absence of Southern congressmen and senators who had opposed the measures in the 1850s.

The Mumbles Railway Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1804, and the first passenger railway ( similar to streetcars in the US some 30 years later ) started operating in 1807.

* Pacific Railway Act and related resources at the Library of Congress

The complete freedom of a carrier of passengers at common law to make such contracts as he thinks fit was not curtailed by the Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854, and a specific contract which enlarges, diminishes or excludes his duty to take care ( e. g., by a condition that the passenger travels " at his own risk against all casualties ") cannot be pronounced to be unreasonable if the law authorises it.

One of the earliest invocations of the Act was in 1894, against the American Railway Union led by Eugene V. Debs, with the intent to settle the Pullman Strike.

The Railway Labor Act is a United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railroad and airline industries.

* Leslie, Douglas ( editor ), " The Railway Labor Act ", Washington, D. C., BNA Books 1995 ISBN 0-87179-815-8.

* Wilner, Frank N, " Understanding the Railway Labor Act ", Omaha, Nebraska, Simmons-Boardman Books 2009, $ 39. 95, ISBN 978-0-911382-59-4.

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Congress ratified the order in the Railway Administration Act of 1918.

Title III of the Esch – Cummins Act, which pertained to labor disputes, was repealed in 1926 by the Railway Labor Act.

* Railway Labor Act of 1926

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.

* 1862 – Pacific Railway Act

* 1916 – Adamson Railway Labor Act

These features were retained in the design despite the fact that by the time the station opened the 1921 Railway Act had been passed which spelt the end of the L & SWR as an independent concern.

An extension at the southern end of the line to Camberwell and Denmark Hill was proposed and approved in 1931 as part of the London Electric Metropolitan District and Central London Railway Companies ( Works ) Act, 1931.

On 1 July 1910, the GNP & BR and the other UERL-owned tube railways ( the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway, the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway ) were merged, by private Act of Parliament, to become the London Electric Railway Company.

This accident prompted Parliament to pass the 1844 Railway Regulation Act requiring railway companies to provide better carriages for passengers.

The Fennell investigation's findings prompted the introduction of the Fire Precautions ( Sub-surface Railway Stations ) Regulations 1989 ( usually referred to as the Section 12 Regulations because they were introduced under section 12 of the Fire Precautions Act 1971 ).

The railway was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1862 and the first sod was cut on Shrove Tuesday, 9 February 1864 by Isaac Holden, the chair of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.