Some also claim it to be the oldest subway tunnel in the world, as it was built by the cut and cover method under a city street, specifically for the purposes of improved public safety, attaining grade separation and enhanced railway operations.

Vehicle built by railway shop workers for the Danish resistance movement, near the end of World War II

The system was originally built as a patchwork of local rail links operated by small private railway companies.

Cuba built the first railway system in the Spanish empire, before the 1848 start in the Iberian peninsula.

( 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.

In 1847 the railway came to Emsworth with the construction of the West Coastway Line, Emsworth railway station was built to serve the town.

A British armoured truck, hastily built from the smokebox es of several steam locomotives at Inchicore railway works

A gauge railway, known as the Camber Railway, was built along the north side of Stanley Harbour in 1915-1916 and used until the 1920s.

The Finnish railway network consists of a total of of railways built with 1, 524 mm gauge.

The consequence was that the town was separated from the lochside by railway tracks until the 1970s when the present by-pass was built, and the station was re-located to the north end.

George Stephenson ( 9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848 ) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.

Of those that have been identified most were built for use at Killingworth itself or for the Hetton colliery railway.

To speed up the construction works, the Polish government in November 1924 signed a contract with the French-Polish Consortium for Gdynia Seaport Construction, which by the end of 1925 had built a small seven-metre-deep harbour, the south pier, part of the north pier, a railway, and had also ordered the trans-shipment equipment.

A new train station, West Kowloon Terminus, will be built in Hong Kong to be served by this new railway.

The first railway was built between Tokyo and Yokohama in 1872 and many more developed.

The strategy of transport development in Kazakhstan until 2015 will be built 1600 km of new electrified and 2700 km of existing railway stations.

By the time the railway was built, military resistance by the African population to the original British takeover had petered out.

Additional problems are because many roads and railway lines built during the Soviet period are today intersected by international boundaries, requiring time-consuming border formalities to cross where they are not completely closed.

In 1825 he built the Locomotion for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, north east England, which became the first public steam railway.

A short portage railway, the Don Det – Don Khon narrow gauge railway, was built by the French while Laos was a part of French Indochina.

Although the proposal was ridiculed and came to nothing ( and would almost certainly have failed if it had been built, due to the shortcomings of the technology proposed ), Pearson continued to lobby for a variety of railway schemes throughout the 1840s and 1850s.

The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless underground railway in London, built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices.

To take advantage of the country's sizable iron ore deposits in Zouerate, the new government built a 675-km railway and a mining port.

Glasnevin railway station opened on 1 April 1901 and closed on 1 December 1910.

A key to the development of Kenya's interior was the construction, started in 1895, of a railway from Mombasa to Kisumu, on Lake Victoria, completed in 1901.

The railway, although authorised in 1896 was opened only as far as Northam by 1901 and finally opened to Appledore in 1908.

By 1901 the figure had moved up to 14, 993, and by 1911 the figure had ballooned to 33, 612, aided by the nearby railway station in Palmers Green.

Construction began in 1901 by laying a railway from the west end of the island to the east.

In 1901 the first electric " Interurban " railway in Texas, the Denison and Sherman Railway, was completed between Sherman and Denison, Texas.

Between 1901 and 1903 a standard gauge railway of over was built from the village of Bamford to the south of the reservoir to Howden, to carry the thousands of tons of stone required for the construction of the two dams.

Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet ( 26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901 ) was an English railway chairman and politician.

In 1901, the first railway was opened from Bangkok to Korat.

In 1901, Bush returned to Columbus to be General Manager of Buckeye Steel Castings Company, which manufactured railway parts.

* 1917: The transcontinental railway is complete, fulfilling a promise by the Federal Government when the Colony of Western Australia voted to become a state of Australia at Federation in 1901.

Furthermore, in 1901 there was a proposal to construct the North Holderness Light Railway from Beverley to North Frodingham railway station, but this came to nothing.

By 1901, 17 major railway brotherhoods were in operation ; they generally worked amicably with management, which recognized their usefulness.

Port Arthur thrived as a transshipment and grain handling port for the CNR after the railway line was opened to Winnipeg in December 1901.

His results were presented on 5 December 1901 during a public session of the railway society and published on 6 September 1902.

The local railway station, Mallaig, is the terminus of the West Highland railway line ( Fort William & Mallaig branch ), completed in 1901, and the town is linked to Fort William by the A830 road – the " Road to the Isles ".

On Friday, December 20, 1901, the railway line reached the Kisumu pier, with the centre adopting a new name, Port Florence.

Officially, traffic on the line started in November 1901, but regular passenger traffic from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok across the Trans-Siberian railway didn't commence until July 1903.

Until the construction of Port Swettenham ( now known as Port Klang ) in 1901, the royal town remained the chief outlet for Selangor's tin, and its position was enhanced by the completion of the Klang Valley railway ( to Bukit Kuda ) in 1886.

Between 1901 and 1956 the company had built 110, 000 railway wagons of varying types and by 1945 Charles Roberts and Co .' s works covered 45 acres including the adjacent site of the Horbury Junction Iron Company which it had taken over in 1923.

The township was from 1901 until 1965 served by a railway station on the Warburton line.

Lilydale has segregated bicycle facilities including the start of the Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail which follows the course of the Lilydale-Warburton railway line which was built in 1901 but closed in 1964.

The Post Office opened on 7 November 1906, four years after the opening of the town's railway station on 13 November 1901 on the Warburton line.