The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.

For the past 40 years Congress has advocated a carefully planned, balanced and competitive railway system.

Due to the low level of investment in cross-border railway projects, the city has preserved a slot within the Thalys high-speed train network which uses existing tracks on its last 70 km from Belgium to Cologne.

The village has a cricket team ( Pentwyn CC ) and is located right next to the old railway line.

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.

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.

Additionally, Burundi has been added to a planned railway project to connect Tanzania and Rwanda.

* Bay platform, a dead-end platform at a railway station which has through lines

The UK has the 18th largest railway network in the world and despite many lines having closed in the 20th century it remains one of the densest rail networks.

The new highspeed ICE railway line from Karlsruhe to Basel was completed in 2008 while phase I of the TGV Rhin-Rhône line, opened in December 2011, has reduced travel time from Basel to Paris to about 3 hours.

Because of this, it has a transportation system which includes more than of roads, 10 major international airports, 300 smaller airports, of functioning railway track, and more than 300 commercial ports and harbours that provide access to the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans as well as the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway.

A result of this has been an increase in the maximum speed on the railway line on the Pan-European Corridor X, from the Slovenian border via Zagreb, Novska, Vinkovci to the Serbian border.

The railway line of the Pan-European Corridor Vb, from the Hungarian border via Koprivnica, Zagreb, Karlovac to the seaport of Rijeka has a slow section through Gorski Kotar, which is planned to undergo a major overhaul.

Because Cyprus has no working railway system, various other methods of transport are needed to ensure the proper delivery of any cargo, be it human or freight.

Since 1995 Medellín has had a modern urban railway referred to as the Metro de Medellín, which also connects with the cities of Itagüí, Envigado, and Bello.

The Czech Republic has a total railway length of.

It has three seaports: Fomboni, Moroni and Moutsamoudou, but does not have a merchant marine, and no longer has any railway network.

Metro rail or rapid transit usually covers a smaller inner-urban area ranging outwards to between 12 km to 20 km ( or 8 to 14 miles ), has a higher train frequency and runs on separate tracks ( underground or elevated ), whereas commuter rail often shares tracks, technology and the legal framework with mainline railway.

The city has been connected to the Proastiakos, the Athens suburban rail network, since 2005, when the new Corinth railway station was completed.

Djibouti has 100 km of metre-gauge railway.

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

Germany has seen increased political activity by citizens outside the established political parties with respect to local and environmental issues such as the location of Stuttgart 21 a railway hub and construction of Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport.

The railway system in Ghana has historically been confined to the plains south of the barrier range on mountains north of the city of Kumasi.

The railway was well built and well used, and in all probability would have been a long-term feature of Sammarinese public transport, but it was almost completely destroyed during the fighting in this region during World War II.

Peak Rail, a heritage railway group, have restored the section from Rowsley to Matlock, with the long-term objective of trying to re-open back to Buxton.

The approach road and railway divide the west part into a southern half, which contains cargo and maintenance facilities, and a northern half, which contains mostly administrative buildings, a holiday long-term parking lot and the Visitors ' Centre.

In 1972 the government set up a steering group to examine the need for future short-term and long-term improvements to the railway given the growth in freight and passenger traffic to China, coupled with the government ’ s plans to construct large new towns at Sha Tin, Tai Po, Sheung Shui and Fan Ling in the New Territories that would further increase domestic travel demand.

From 2000-2011, there were no active railway expansion projects in the MARTA system due to lack of additional sales-tax funding, the need to spend its limited capital budget on refurbishing its older rolling stock, replacing the fare-collection system, repairing the tracks and their electrical systems, and other long-term maintenance, repair, and operations requirements.

It had invested heavily in long-term railway stocks rather than holding cash reserves.

The line and its stock are in the custody of the Isle of Man Government as part of the Department of Community, Culture & Leisure and as such do not see the requirement to retain unused stock, which has no potential use or long-term storage place on the railway.

The railway harbours a number of mid to long-term plans for expansion.

The Mid-Norfolk Railway has long-term aims to restore the railway as far as Fakenham.

The area to the east of the railway from the docks north to the railway station has been the subject of long-term rejuvenation and redevelopment plans which may eventually see it turned into a district of boutique restaurants and shops.

The locomotive is now on display at the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum, located in the same building as Darlington's North Road railway station, on long-term loan from the National Railway Museum.

The railway has long-term ambitions to reopen the tunnel and route to Barry Pier.

By the time the railway arrived in 1911 the long-term decline of river transportation had taken its toll.

The first report identified 2, 363 stations and of railway line for closure, representing 55 % of all stations and 30 % of route miles, with an objective of stemming the large financial losses being incurred during a period of increasing competition from road transport ; the second identified a small number of major routes within the remaining network for significant investment.

In 1994, with the objective to enhance Kuala Lumpur city ’ s public transportation, the Government of Malaysia awarded a contract to a consortium to transform at Kuala Lumpur ’ s old railway marshalling yard into a modern transit hub within a self-contained urban development.

Any capture of an important strategic objective, such as the Channel ports, or the vital railway junction of Amiens would have occurred more by chance than by design.

The principal policy objective of the Pipes government was to secure a transfer of the Pictou railway line from the federal government to the province and to purchase and complete the privately owned " Eastern Extension Railway ".

During World War I, a German and Turkish railway system through the Taurus Mountains proved to be a major strategic objective of the Allies.

Initial results were encouraging, and the original objective of the railway, to give Glastonbury access to the maritime and railway transport links at Highbridge, was successfully achieved.

In May ( 4 months later of the same year ), the Swanage Railway Society was formed with the objective of restoring an all-the-year-round community railway service linking to the main line at Wareham which would be ' subsidised ' by the operation of steam-hauled heritage trains during the holidays.

In 1999 the trust achieved its long-held objective of running a regular steam train service on the national main line railway network: the Shakespeare Express between Birmingham Snow Hill and Stratford-upon-Avon.

By crossing the Caen-Bayeux railway line the troop became somewhat fortuitously " the only unit of the allied invasion forces known to reach its final objective on D-Day.

This trial William F. Cooke mounted at his own risk, and its primary objective was to demonstrate the utility of the electric telegraph in providing safe railway system signaling, electronically.

The Group began life as Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia, a business that was incorporated and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1888 with the objective of operating a railway between Antofagasta, a port on the north pacific coast of Chile, and La Paz, the capital City of Bolivia.

In 1846 the Sydney Railway Company was formed with the objective of building a railway line between Sydney and Parramatta.

Further Peaceful Penetration patrols were conducted, this time with the objective of advancing the Australian 7th Infantry Brigades front by, and capturing the remainder of Monument Wood and " The Mound " ( spoil from a nearby railway cutting ).