In 1894, the first train on the Achill railway carried the bodies of victims of the Clew Bay Drowning.

* 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

Peasant parties first appeared across Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1910, when commercialized agriculture and world market forces disrupted traditional rural society, and the railway and growing literacy facilitated the work of roving organizers.

* 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.

Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

In Belgium an extensive system of tram-like local railways called vicinal or buurtspoor lines crossed the country in the first half of the 20th century, and had a greater route length than the main-line railway system.

The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world ; the world's first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825.

The first British railway to build coaches with bogies, instead of rigidly mounted axles, was the Midland Railway in 1874.

Basel SBB railway station | Basel Bahnhof SBB, self proclaimed " world's first international train station.

Croatian Railways ' plan to build their first high-speed railway service is progressing.

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.

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.

( 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.

The first amateur railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, was created by Victor Whitechurch and his stories impressed Ellery Queen and Dorothy L. Sayers.

* 1913 – The Buenos Aires Subway, the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.

This was followed by the formation of St. John Ambulance in 1877, based on the principles of the Knights Hospitaller, to teach first aid, and numerous other organization joined them with the term first aid first coined in 1878 as civilian ambulance services spread as a combination of " first treatment " and " national aid " in large railway centres and mining districts as well as with police forces.

Outside the scope of media, railway enthusiasts are another early fandom with its roots in the late 19th century that began to gain in popularity and increasingly organize in the first decades of the early 20th century.

After a few months working as an unpaid assistant to his brother-in-law, who managed a foundry, Eiffel approached the railway engineer Charles Nepveu, who gave Eiffel his first paid job as his private secretary.

However, shortly afterwards Nepveu's company went bankrupt, but Nepveu found Eiffel a job with the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l ' Ouest, for whom Eiffel produced his first bridge design, a sheet iron bridge for the Saint Germaine railway.

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.

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.

The railway came to Kirby Muxloe in 1848 when the Midland Railway built a line through Kirby, and on July 1, 1859 Kirby Muxloe railway station opened at Kirby fields.