* 2000 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.

The Whites ' bridgehead south of the River Vuoksi at Antrea on the Karelian Isthmus was a constant problem to the Reds, as it threatened the railway connection Viipuri-Petrograd.

The area's further development was boosted by the construction a railway between Yurga and Kolchugino ( now Leninsk-Kuznetsky ) with a connection between Topki and Shcheglovo.

It follows that to calculate latency of a connection, one has to know the distance traveled by the fiber, which is rarely a straight line, since it has to traverse geographic contours and obstacles, such as roads and railway tracks, as well as other rights-of-way.

In March 2005, digging began on a new railway connection called the City Tunnel, which opened for traffic on December 4 2010.

This was reasoned with placing the railway connection between Warsaw and Danzig ( Gdańsk ), of vital importance to Poland as it connected central Poland with its seacoast, completely under Polish sovereignty.

Port Harcourt, a transshipment port located 66 kilometers from the Gulf of Guinea along the Bonny River in the Niger Delta, handles about 815, 000 tons of cargo each year and also has a railway connection.

The railway which connects Asunción to Encarnación actually doesn ’ t operate, but there is still a connection between Encarnación and Posadas ( Argentina ) for the transport of agricultural goods.

Although interestingly there do not appear to be any scheduled flights between the two countries and the train service, which used to be frequent, has been limited to one train a day in each direction ( a night service from Budapest to Venice and back ) until December 2011, when it was discontinued, thus leaving no railway connection between the two countries.

The Eskişehir-Istanbul section of the line is scheduled to be completed by 2012, and includes the Marmaray tunnel which will enter service in 2012 and establish the first direct railway connection between Europe and Anatolia. Second high-speed rail line, which has length of 212 km between Ankara and Konya become operational in 2011.

* February 4 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion, in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.

There is a connection to the Munich-Salzburg railway at Freilassing.

Olbia is the main connection between Sardinia and the Italian peninsula, with an airport ( Olbia-Costa Smeralda ), a passenger port ( Olbia-Isola Bianca ), and a railway from Olbia railway station to Porto Torres, Golfo Aranci and Cagliari.

Trento railway station, opened in 1859, forms part of the Brenner railway ( Verona – Innsbruck ), which is the main rail connection between Italy and Germany.

After more than five decades of speculation and debate, the decision to construct the link was made in 1986 ; while the original intent was to complete the railway link three years before opening the road connection, the link was opened to rail traffic in 1997 and road traffic in 1998.

He was wanted in connection with the 1982 collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano and on charges of subversive association in connection with the 1980 Bologna railway station bombing, which killed 85 people.

Sakhalin's railway has a connection with the rest of Russia via a ferry operating between Vanino and Kholmsk.

In 2000, the Russian government revived the idea, adding a suggestion that a 40-km-long bridge could be constructed between Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, providing Japan with a direct connection to the Euro-Asian railway network.

The connection to the Swiss railway network in 1864 was important, as was the connection of mountain and valley with an electric tram at the beginning of the 20th Century.

Especially on the Danish side, the land connection has domestic benefit, mainly connecting the airport to the railway network.

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 railway caused the town to boom by the 1880s.

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.