The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.

The railway came to Aberdour in 1890, with the building of the line east from the newly opened Forth Railway Bridge.

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.

The peak and statue can be accessed via a narrow road or by the 3. 8 kilometre ( 2. 4 mi ) Corcovado Rack Railway which was opened in 1884 and refurbished in 1980.

The first cable-operated railway, employing a moving rope and iron claws on the cars, was the London and Blackwall Railway, which opened in east London, England, in 1840.

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.

* 1900 – The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge ( 2 ft 6 in or 762 mm ) Railway ( now the Puffing Billy Railway ) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.

The railway line to Kingswear was opened in 1864, the original plans for the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway line took the line across a bridge and into the town.

The Docklands Light Railway ( the DLR ) is an automated light metro or light rail system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.

* 1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened on 27 September 1825.

The Great Eastern Hotel was closed in 1923 by the newly formed LNER, the hotel having suffered a decline resulting from the opening of the new passenger port up-river at Parkeston Quay where a new hotel with the same name had been opened by the Great Eastern Railway.

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.

On 15 September 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened, the first inter-city railway in the world and was attended by Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington.

The first inter city passenger railway, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened in 1830, making exclusive use of steam power for both passenger and freight trains.

The Docklands Light Railway was opened on 31 August 1987 and was included in the zonal Travelcard ticketing scheme.

* 1830 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened.

Two years later, in 1857, the European and North American Railway opened its line from Moncton to nearby Shediac ; this was followed by a line from Moncton to Saint John opening in 1859.

In the early 1920s the Busselton to Margaret River Railway was built and in 1925 the Margaret River to Flinders Bay line opened.

* 1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.

A tunnel was driven beneath Mutley Plain by the South Devon Railway Company and was opened to traffic on 2 April 1849.

In 1803, William Jessop opened the Surrey Iron Railway in south London, arguably the world's first horse-drawn public railway.

It is a testament to Scott's contribution in creating a unified identity for Scotland that Edinburgh's central railway station, opened in 1854 by the North British Railway, is called Waverley.

From 1882 the village was served by Aberfoyle railway station, the terminus of the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which connected to Glasgow via Dumbarton or Kirkintilloch The station closed to passenger traffic in 1951, and the remaining freight services ceased in 1959.

The national passenger and freight operator is called Bulgarian State Railways, but there are also a number of private operators including Bulgarian Railway Company and DB Schenker Rail Bulgaria.

Bettendorf-style freight car truck displayed at the Illinois Railway Museum.

A version of the archbar truck was at one time also used on US Railway car # Freight cars | freight cars

In the early 1950s, an extension to Dimona and south was constructed from the Railway to Beersheba, designed for freight traffic.

* International Railway Systems, a Romanian freight railroad car producer

The success of the inter-city railway, particularly in the transport of freight and commodities, led to Railway Mania.

In January 2007 work began on a 3. 5 km extension of the metre-gauge State Railway of Thailand network across the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge to Thanaleng Railway Station, a new passenger and freight terminal in Dongphosy village, 20 km east of Vientiane.

Western Sahara has no freight or passenger service railways, with the exception of a section of the Mauritania Railway ; which ( since the closure of the Choum Tunnel ), cuts across the extreme south-eastern corner of the territory.

The freight market share of the Azerbaijan State Railway was 21 % in 1999.

Saint Paul is the site of the Pig's Eye Yard, a major freight Classification yard for Canadian Pacific Railway.

In the mid-1930s, the Chicago Great Western Railway and then the New Haven Railroad began " piggy-back " service ( transporting highway freight trailers on flatcars ) limited to their own railroads.

* Trans-Asian Railway, a UN project to create an integrated freight railway network across Europe and Asia

Amongst the high number of impractical, overambitious and downright fraudulent schemes promoted during the Mania were a good number of practical trunk routes ( most notably the initial part of the Great Northern Railway and the trans-Pennine Woodhead route ) and important freight lines ( such as large parts of what would become the North Eastern Railway ).

At present, the Canadian Pacific Railway ( successor to the Delaware and Hudson ) and the Luzerne and Susquehanna Railroad ( designated-operator of a county-owned shortline ) provide freight service within the city.

* Aqaba Railway Corporation, a freight railway in Jordan

The Bermuda Railway provided rail passenger and freight service from St. George's to Somerset in Sandys Parish, via Hamilton, beginning in 1931, but it was replaced by bus service and dismantled in 1948.

* Norfolk Southern Railway -- freight line that runs East-West

The area was also served by another smaller station, Mill Hill ( The Hale ), opened by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway in 1867, but passenger services ended in 1939, and freight traffic in 1964.

The opening of the Grand Junction Canal ( later renamed Grand Union Canal ) as the major freight transport route between London and Birmingham in 1796 began a commercial boom, intensified by the arrival of Brunel's Great Western Railway in 1839, leading to th of brick factories, flour mills and chemical plants which formed the town's commercial base.

A Norfolk Southern Railway line runs across the north end of the county on its route between Danville, Illinois and Lafayette ; it carries about 45 freight trains each day.

DMUs are less common, partly because new light rail operations are almost entirely electric, with many commuter routes already electrified, and also because of the difficulties posed by Federal Railway Administration rules limiting their use on shared passenger / freight corridors.