Sherman proved that a railway base could be movable and the most brilliant feature of the Atlanta campaign was the rapid repair of the tracks.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

The Manchester Guardian wondered how anyone in a railway carriage would have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Lewis, since it was well known that Mr. Lewis always did all of the talking.

In the railway station at Berlin, a uniformed attendant was chanting, ' Foreigners this way!!

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

In 1894, the Westport-Newport railway line was extended to Achill Sound.

He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

In the 19th century and up to the 1930s, the city was important for the production of railway locomotives and carriages, iron, pins, needles, buttons, tobacco, woollen goods, and silk goods.

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.

The steel price dropped as a direct result, and Bessemer steel was rapidly adopted for railway lines and girders for buildings and bridges.

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.

Born in Munich, Drexler was a machine-fitter before becoming a railway locksmith in Berlin in 1902.

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.

Although this distinction was blurred by the 19th century arrival of the railway.

From 1882 the village was served by Aberfoyle railway station, the terminus of the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which connected to Glasgow via Dumbarton or Kirkintilloch The station closed to passenger traffic in 1951, and the remaining freight services ceased in 1959.

* From the Meiji to the Shōwa period, as the electric railway improved transport to Akihabara and the surrounds, and especially due to the growth in dealerships, the district was designated as a.

The estate was conveniently located within easy walking distance of Bletchley railway station, where the " Varsity Line " between the cities of Oxford and Cambridge – whose universities supplied many of the code-breakers – met the ( then-LMS ) main West Coast railway line between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow.

The only direct enemy action that the site experienced was when 3 bombs, thought to have been intended for Bletchley railway station, were dropped on 20 – 21 November 1940.

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

It was formed from the nationalisation of the " Big Four " British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997.

** Docklands Light Railway in London, the first driverless railway in Great Britain, is formally opened by Elizabeth II.

The NS was founded in 1938 when the two largest Dutch railway companies, the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij ( HSM ) and the Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen ( SS ), formally merged.

They applied, on 13 November 1863 to convert the tramroad to a railway, adopt steam locomotives and formally close the section between Machynlleth and Derwenlas.

Although the name Creu first appears in the Domesday Book, the modern urban settlement of Crewe was not formally planned out until 1843 by Joseph Locke to consolidate the " railway colony " that had grown up since around 1840-41 in the area near to the railway junction station opened in 1837, even though it was called Crewe by many, from the start.

Cambridge was formally the terminus of the Cambridge Branch railway, but this closed in 1999.

Hovedbanen was formally a private railway until 1926, but the Norwegian Government had great influence on the railway from the very beginning.

On 24 April 1971 the society formally absorbed the London Railway Preservation Society, taking custody of its collection of historic railway equipment.

The state government purchased the railway and the townsite in 1896 and later formally gazetted the town in 1898.

The unit escorted Lord Carrington, Governor of New South Wales, when he formally opened the railway at Tenterfield, New South Wales in 1886.

A railway formally served the places from Kryoneri and Agrinio and served with the ferry with Rio.

Today, Newton Heath was formally served by Dean Lane railway station, on the Manchester to Rochdale via Oldham line when it closed in October 2009.

Later that year, the federal government created the Canadian National Railways ( CNR ) as a means to simplify the funding and administration of the nationalized railway system ; this was formally brought about by an order issued on December 20, 1918, by the Privy Council.

Traffic declined as the railway companies neglected the canal, and were down to 18, 802 tons in 1905, on which the tolls amounted to £ 242 and an Act of Parliament was passed in 1936, formally closing the canal, though there had been no boat traffic for ten years.

The area of Borehamwood to the west of the railway line, formally Deacon's Hill, is colloquially called Elstree even though it is not contiguous with the village.

On February 16, 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott formally announced that he would be rejecting federal funds to construct the high-speed railway, thereby killing the Florida High Speed Rail project.

Harness RE, secretary to the Railway Department of the Board of Trade formally advised the directors of the B & BR on 14 April that the railway could be opened for public service.

In 1968 it was formally proposed to the Ministry of Transport that the line from Paignton should be closed entirely but instead, on 30 December 1972, the line was sold to the Dart Valley Railway Company, which at that time operated the nearby heritage railway that subsequently became the South Devon Railway.

It was founded in 1920 as the Deutsche Reichseisenbahnen when the Weimar Republic ( formally Deutsches Reich – " German Empire " – hence the usage of " Reich " in the name of the railway ) took national control of the German railways, which had previously been run by the German states.

* October 1-The first public railway in France is formally opened from Saint-Étienne to Andrézieux.

In the United Kingdom, thousands of miles of railway were closed under the Beeching Axe cuts in the 1960s and while several of these routes have subsequently been reopened, none were formally treated as land banks in the US manner.

It was formally known, from 1878 – 1890, as New Hendon, a small railway development on the Edgware Road.

The Bluebird, formally dubbed Compartment Car by its purchaser, the Brooklyn – Manhattan Transit Corporation ( BMT ), was an advanced design PCC subway and elevated railway car used on the New York City Subway system from 1939 to 1957.