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In rail transport, a train is a vehicle or (more frequently) a string of vehicles capable of being moved along a continuous line of rails or other guideway for the purpose of conveying freight or passengers between points on a predetermined route. The train may be hauled or propelled by one or more vehicles designed exclusively for that purpose (locomotives) or may be driven by a number of motors incorporated in all or several of the vehicles. |
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The Hellingly Hospital Railway was a railway owned and operated by East Sussex County Council, serving Hellingly Hospital near Hailsham, via a spur from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway’s Cuckoo Line at Hellingly railway station. The railway was constructed in 1899, and first opened to passengers on 20 July 1903, following the decision to electrify the railway in 1902. Following the railway grouping of 1923 passenger numbers continued to decline, to the point where hospital authorities no longer deemed passenger usage of the line to be economic, and withdrew the service. The railway closed to freight in 1959, following the hospital's decision to convert its coal boilers to oil, rendering the railway unnecessary. The route took a mostly direct path from Hellingly Station to Hellingly Hospital, passing through sidings known as Farm Siding and Park House Siding respectively. Much of the railway has since been converted to footpath, while many of the buildings surrounding the line have since been abandoned.
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On 14 June 2008, a special steam-hauled service was run to mark the opening of the railway from Melbourne to Albury, NSW, Australia, exactly 125 years earlier, and the imminent closure of the original broad gauge track for conversion to standard gauge. The Albury line features approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) of parallel broad gauge and standard gauge tracks, the longest example of parallel tracks of different gauges in the world.
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- ...that the head drafstman for the 1892 New Orleans Union Station project in Louisiana, USA, the only railway station designed by architect Louis Sullivan, was later renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright?
- ...that although the London and North Eastern Railway's Class V2 2-6-2 locomotives were built for mixed traffic use, they could almost match LNER's express passenger 4-6-2 Pacifics for sustained high speed running and were timed at speeds of up to 101.5 mph (163.3 km/h)?
- ...that the Skansen Bridge in Trondheim, Norway, was designed by Joseph Strauss, who among other things also constructed the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, USA?
- ...that although platform screen doors have been installed at stations to reduce the movement of air caused by the trains at they pass through the tunnels as well as to reduce air conditioning costs for stations in warmer climates such as Singapore, they also serve a safety purpose in preventing passengers falling onto the tracks or in front of an oncoming train?
- 1802 – William Norris, American steam locomotive builder and founder of Norris Locomotive Works, is born (d. 1867).
- 1864 – The Northern Pacific Railway is chartered to build a northern transcontinental railroad in the United States.
- 1880 – The first revenue trains reach Leadville, Colorado, on the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad.
- 1954 – A first part of the Valenciennes-Thionville line in France is electrified, both for military and commercial reasons.
- July 1 – Construction work for Shanghai–Nanjing high-speed railway officially begins in China. The 300 km long railway will cost 39.45 billion yuan (~5.7 billion US dollars), is to be completed in four years. [1]
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May 13 – The toll in the trolley accident in the Nilgris Mountain Railway in near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu, India has risen to 3 with the death a railway employee succumbing to injuries in a private hospital here on Tuesday. Two persons were killed and six others injured on Sunday when they jumped from the trolley after its brakes failed at Katteri, between Coonoor and Mettupalayam. (The Hindu)
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May 6 – The New Zealand government will pay NZ$665 million to buy back railway and sea ferry operations that were privatized in the 1990s. "The selling of our public rail system in the early 1990s and the running down of the asset afterward has been a painful lesson for New Zealand," Finance Minister Michael Cullen said yesterday. (Toronto Star)
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May 6 – The Abu Dhabi emirate is planning to construct a railway system by the year 2015, to cope with the transportation problem of its ever increasing population, a senior transport official has said. The population of Abu Dhabi is expected to increase to more than three million people by 2030, and planners say it is 'a must' for Abu Dhabi, heavily reliant on a taxi service that often cannot cope with the demand, to have its own metro by 2015. (Khaleej Times)
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May 6 – Fortescue Metals Group has won another round in its long-running quest for third-party access to Pilbara railway lines. The Federal Court of Australia yesterday rejected Rio Tinto's claim that the National Competition Council should rely on a 1999 decision denying access to Robe River instead of considering Fortescue's recent application for access. (Sydney Morning Herald)
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April 30 – US railroad company Genesee and Wyoming Inc announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire CAGY Industries, Inc. for approximately USD$78.4 million in cash. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Columbus, MS, CAGY is the parent company of three short-line railroads, Columbus and Greenville Railway, Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway and Luxapalila Valley Railroad. (Genesee & Wyoming)
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April 29 – Victorian Railways H class locomotive H 220, nicknamed "Heavy Harry", has been added to the Victorian Heritage Register. Heritage Council chairman Chris Gallagher said "Harry", the largest locomotive ever built in Australia, warranted the state's highest level of heritage protection. Australian Railway Historical Society (Vic) president Malcolm Davidson said he hoped the state acknowledgement of H 220's historical and cultural significance would fuel moves to further preserve the locomotive, which currently sits in the open exposed to sea air. (Leader News)
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