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

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

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.

In 19th-century Europe, the expansion of the rail transport networks was at first largely a matter for private railway companies, but gradually came under control of the national governments.

The railway first came to Berlin in 1838, with the opening of the Potsdamer Bahnhof, terminus of a 26 km line linking the city with Potsdam, opened throughout by 29 October ( in 1848 the line would be extended to Magdeburg and beyond ).

At the same time they came into Metropolitan's railway interests.

The first service on the Vienna-Trieste railway line came through Celje on 27 April 1846.

During the nineteenth century road transportation improved, and the railway came in 1860.

He first came in contact with Marxist literature in the 1920s through his work as a railway clerk.

Until the railway came, the local commercial centre was nearby St Mary Cray, rather than Orpington.

It later came to mean any substantial railway station building ( a different Russian word, stantsiya, is used for minor stations ). The word " voksal " ( воксал ) had been known in the Russian language with the meaning of " amusement park " long before the 1840s and may be found, e. g., in the poetry of Aleksandr Pushkin: ( To Natalie ( 1813 ): " At fêtes and in voksals, / I've been flitting like a gentle Zephyrus "

There were previously four railway lines coming into the town ; from the north the line came down the coast from Melton Constable into the terminus at Beach station.

The railway was later linked to Liskeard proper, and as the mining boom came to an end, it began carrying passengers in 1879.

Along with the railway came Consolidated Lamp and Glass Company to Coraopolis, moving from its location in Fostoria, Ohio.

In 1900, both lines ( north-south and east-west ) that ran through Plymouth, came under ownership of the newly formed Pere Marquette railway as stated above.

When the railway and metalled roads came to Hoorn in the late nineteenth century, the town rapidly took its rightful place as a conveniently located and readily accessible centre in the network of towns and villages which make up the province of Noord-Holland.

At its peak in the early 1900s, a railway line came into Belfry, with a spur running up to the coal mines in Bearcreek.

However, Shawnee came in a distant third in the statewide election to determine the capital, and lost both the railway and the meatpacking plant to Oklahoma City.

The municipality was inhabited by a few hundred people until the railways came in the late 19th century, and the town Nybro was in its location between Kalmar on the east coast and Gothenburg on the west coast ; later also on the railway from Kalmar and Malmö in the south-west.

The Ipswich to Stowmarket railway line opened in 1846, and with it came a serious decline in traffic on the navigation.

The town developed when the railway came to the town.

Sims ' early interest in being an actress came from living at the railway station.

In 1842, the railway came to town and a station was built on the Manchester-Glossop Line.

On September 7, 1964 the Kirby Muxloe railway station closed in the Beeching Axe.

The normal pattern of trains in steam railway days was from West Kirby to Birkenhead Park or to Seacombe, from both of which direct connections, which the bulk of the passengers used, were available to Liverpool, by the Mersey Railway electric trains from Birkenhead Park, and by Wallasey Corporation ferryboat from Seacombe.

Farningham Road railway station is on the Chatham Main Line, and serves the villages of Sutton-at-Hone, South Darenth and to a lesser extent, Horton Kirby all in north Kent, in south east England.

Connections to York are through either the # 31X service from Helmsley or the # 840 from Pickering ; the # 840 also calls at Kirby Misperton, the location of Flamingoland theme park and zoo, and Malton bus and railway station.

The Hoylake Railway reopened on 1 August 1872 and in 1878 was extended to West Kirby to the west and an interchange with the tramway and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board railway system to east where station was built.

Before these extensions were complete the railway became the Wirral Railway Company and a decision was made to double the track as far as the western terminus at West Kirby.

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

Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

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.

* 1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens.

The city's first railway, running to Stargard in Pommern ( now Stargard Szczeciński ), opened in 1848.

The Waterford and Limerick Railway linked the city to the Dublin-Cork railway line in 1848 and to Waterford in 1853.

The coming of the railways in 1848 started the decline of the river trade, not least because a railway bridge downstream restricted access for shipping.

The railway reached the town in 1848 and briefly, it was on the main line from London to the North.

Oola railway station opened on 9 May 1848 and finally closed on 9 September 1963.

In 1848, the first railway arrived in Amiens, linking the city to Boulogne-sur-Mer.

The first railway in peninsular Spain was the Mataró – Barcelona line which opened on 28 October 1848 by the Catalan businessman and Mataró native Miquel Biada.

This was the second railway line in Spain, after that of Barcelona-Mataró ( 1848 ).

The second phase in the expansion of Torquay began when Torre railway station was opened on 18 December 1848.

Communications were improved with the opening of Ripon railway station in May 1848.

By 1848 there was a railway station in Batley, and in 1853 Batley Town Hall was erected.

The railway arrived in 1848 when Dewsbury Wellington Road railway station on the London and North Western Railway opened ; this is the only station which remains open.

The railway arrived in 1848 and, in 1854, neighbouring Aldershot became the “ Home of the British Army ”.

The firm took advantage of the railway boom by opening newsstands on railway stations, starting with Euston in 1848.

A railway from Boston to Spalding opened in 1848, while the line from Spalding opened to Bourne in 1866 and on to Sleaford in 1872.

Newmarket's first railway was a line built by the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway and opened in 1848 ( known as the " Newmarket Railway ").

The mainline Stoke-on-Trent railway station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway ( NSR ) on 9 October 1848, replacing the temporary station sited at Whieldon road, which was constructed for the opening of the first NSR line on 17 April 1848.