This railway connection caused transportation and commerce with Chicago to significantly improve. The addition of new railroad lines to Muscatine and Iowa City, and the acquiring of other lines by the Rock Island Railroad, caused Davenport to became a commercial railroad hub.

His father built much of the Hungarian railway system, but lost most of his fortune in 1899 when bad weather caused a railway building project to go over budget.

A joint Japanese-Vietnamese evaluation team found that the poor state of railway infrastructure was the fundamental cause for most railway accidents, of which the most common types are train crashes against vehicles and persons, especially at illegal level crossings ; derailments caused by failure to decrease speed was also noted as a common cause of accidents.

The lahar caused the Tangiwai disaster, with the loss of 151 lives, when the Tangiwai railway bridge across the Whangaehu River collapsed while the lahar was in full flood, just before an express train crossed it.

These problems were exacerbated with the construction of St Katharine Docks ( 1827 ) and the central London railway termini ( 1840 – 1875 ) that caused the clearance of former slums and rookeries, with many of the displaced people moving into the area.

This caused more wear on the wooden rollers of the wagons and towards the middle of the 18th century, led to the introduction of iron wheels, the use of which is recorded on a wooden railway near Bath in 1734.

In June 1891 a railway began operating to the area, and soon the town was the transportation terminus between the area and the rest of Utah, which caused a boom in the town's businesses and its population size.

The introduction of radial railway lines from 1839 caused a fundamental shift away from agricultural supply for London towards large scale house building.

During World War II, the extensive Mechlinian railway structure had caused the Nazi occupation forces to choose Mechelen for its infamous transit camp.

The cease-fire did not hold, and, in 1914, a railway strike turned into a general strike, and threats of a revolution caused Smuts to declare martial law.

In the U. S., the 1992 railway strikes caused General Motors to idle a 75, 000-worker plant because they had no supply.

While the alleged intrusion of government into the railway sector caused problems, it also proved necessary and inevitable.

As Premier, he smoothed over the divisions in the party that had caused and been exacerbated by the railway scandal.

The relocation of the Welland Canal in the early 1970s caused massive changes in the local railway network.

The death and funeral of William Huskisson caused the opening of the railway to be widely reported, and people around the world became aware for the first time that cheap and rapid long-distance transport was now possible.

Despite the inconvenience that this caused, the railway benefitted by Hong Kong becoming the centre of communications and trade with southern China, especially as much of the traffic that had hitherto gone by sea could no longer do so.

In 1964, a cyclone destroyed Dhanushkodi and the railway and caused severe damage along the shores of Palk Strait and Palk Bay.

In the early 1990s, following the Clapham Junction rail crash in December 1988, and two other fatal accidents in early 1989 caused by SPADs, British Rail was keen to implement the ATP system across the entire British railway system.

On the approach to the Bridge, Borough High Street northeast-side numbering stops at No 7 which is a vault shop within the railway viaduct, the lower numbers ' disappearance was caused by the 1990s developments on the river side north of Duke Street Hill, the main office block north of this is actually ' No 1 London Bridge ' and the pedestrian only ' London Bridge Walk ' leading to Colechurch House is also numbered from this point.

The flood was caused because the mining company had dammed up a portion of the Creek during the construction of a railway, and when this dam gave way the town below was flooded.

The construction of Portishead " B " power station caused the original railway station to be demolished and a replacement station was opened in the High Street on 2 January 1954.

The son of a railway stationmaster, Schiele lived most of his childhood in the drowsy Danubian town of Tulln, 14 miles northwest of Vienna.

The Georgian railway, which runs through the town of Gori in central Georgia, is the main transport link between Armenia and the aforementioned Georgian seaports.

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

The town became a regional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrival of the Michigan Central Railroad, and a north — south railway connecting Ann Arbor to Toledo and other markets to the south was established in 1878.

The town is served by Aberdare railway station and Aberdare bus station, opposite each other in the town centre.

The town has strong local travel links as Accrington railway station lies on the East Lancashire Line serving trains running locally and trains running from Blackpool to York.

It is also reputed to be the only UK town with a railway station and a pub in the middle of a roundabout.

There are regular bus services on the route and the town has a railway station on the rail line between Balloch and Glasgow Queen Street.

Bodmin Parkway railway station is served by main line trains and is situated on the Cornish Main Line about 3½ miles ( 5½ km ) south-east from the town centre.

* Christchurch railway station a train station serving the town of Christchurch, Dorset, England

No railway has ever run to Dartmouth, but the town does have a railway station, although it is now a restaurant.

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 city is served by Munich S-Bahn ( S2 ) and Deutsche Bahn via Dachau railway station located in the South of the town.

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

Monzie Square ( named after the Cameron Campbells of Monzie, Perthshire, former landowners in the town ), Station Square, where the long-since demolished railway station used to be, Gordon Square ( named for the Gordons, who owned land where the town now stands in the late 18th century, during which time the town was named Gordonsburgh ), and Cameron Square — formerly known as Town Hall Square.

When the railway opened to Fort William on 7 August 1894, the station was given prime position at the south end of the town.

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.

The town lies on Highway 5 and the CN railway line, between Dauphin and Grandview, or about 250 miles NW of Winnipeg.

The town became a watering place in the 1760s, and then, with the coming of the railway, a seaside resort.

The railway boom that emanated from this and the associated employment growth allowed Moncton to achieve city status on April 23, 1890.

An economic boom in the 1850s coincided with railway expansion across the province, further increasing the economic strength of Central Canada.

During the early 20th century, the town became a major railway junction, causing a major economic boom that lasted until the Russian Civil War.

The Bank of England cut interest rates, making government bonds less attractive investments, and existing railway companies ' shares began to boom as they moved ever-increasing amounts of cargo and people, making people willing to invest in new railways.

This boom may have been fuelled in part by the recent construction of two separate, major luxury flats developments just across the main road from the railway station.

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

The boom ended in 1886, when the railway line was finally completed to the county seat of Ord.

Churchville's population boom and growth as a commuter haven took place in the mid-1980s, just after the town lost it commuter railway line.

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

For instance, during the economic boom period of the 1850s, the national government had to pay only 19 percent of the costs of railway construction.

The railway brought a building boom to Formby.

Rapid City was the front runner for the site of the new railway and had prepared for the impending building boom accordingly.

Meanwhile in Grand Valley with expectation of the railway, the town began to boom.

He worked as a civil engineer during the railway boom of the late 1830s, while also devoting much of his time to writing for provincial journals that were nonconformist in their religion and radical in their politics.

With the train able to transport more goods and more people at a cheaper rate, the railway helped spark a rice boom in Gapan, San Isidro, Cabanatuan, Santa Rosa and Penaranda.

In the decade of the 1840s, a railroad-building boom was in progress, and Tyndall's land surveying experience was valuable and in demand by the railway companies.

These isolated links developed during the railway boom of the 1840s into a national network, although still run by dozens of competing companies.

The second construction boom of the main railway arose in the 1910s and included the Bergensbane across Finse to Bergen, connecting Eastern and Western Norway.

During the Victorian railway boom, the railways expanded and by the turn of the century Shepparton was central to a large network of regional branch lines including the Toolamba-Echuca, lines to Cobram, Nathalia, Dookie, Picola and Katamatite Rail served industries helped the Shepparton grow into a city.

England's railway boom of the 1830s led to two competing companies driving lines through the area.

In the early Victorian railway boom two companies constructed lines through the area.

As one of London's primary transport routes during the 19th century railway boom, Holloway Road contains a number of railway stations.