related to railtransport that occurred in1886. January 25 – The North Hudson County Railway in New Jersey opens the first elevated cable railway in the United...
This article lists events related to railtransport that occurred in 1887. January 28 – Jay Gould purchases the Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas...
This article lists events related to railtransport that occurred in 1885. February 8 – The Midland Railway of England opens its extension to Birmingham...
Railtransportin Tasmania consists of a network of narrow gauge track of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) reaching virtually all cities and major towns in the island...
Railtransportin Pakistan began in 1855 during the British Raj, when several railway companies began laying track and operating in present-day Pakistan...
Railtransportin Singapore mainly consists of a passenger urban rail transit system spanning the entire city-state: a rapid transit system collectively...
Railtransportin the Australian state of Victoria is provided by a number of railway operators who operate over the government-owned railway lines. The...
railroad strike of 1886 was a labor union strike involving more than 200,000 workers. Beginning on March 1, 1886, railroad workers in five states struck...
Railtransportin Malaysia consists of heavy rail (including commuter rail), light rapid transit (LRT), mass rapid transit(MRT), monorails, airport rail...
The history of railtransportin Ireland began only a decade later than that of Great Britain. By its peak in 1920, Ireland had 3,500 route miles (5,630 km)...
extended to Kyzyl-Arvat (today's Serdar), by 1886 had reached Chardzhou (today's Turkmenabat). In 1887 a wooden rail bridge was built over the Amu Darya, and...
Railtransportin Wales began in the early 19th century initially used for industrial purposes and shortly began to be used for commercial purposes. The...
and a number of private companies. Today passenger rail services are controlled by the Public Transport Authority (a department of the Government of Western...
into Canada and Mexico. The United States has the largest railtransport network of any country in the world, about 160,000 miles (260,000 km). Passenger...
The Railroad Commission Cases, 116 U.S. 307 (1886), is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the power of states to set transportation charges...
The history of railtransportin Turkey began with the start of the placement in 1856 of a 130 kilometres (81 mi) railway line between İzmir and Aydın...
Infrastructure & Transport (DIT) owns the suburban passenger rail network, comprising six lines originating from Adelaide railway station on North Terrace in the CBD...
of railtransport American business history Confederate railroads in the American Civil War High-speed railin the United States History of rail transport...
accelerated greatly due to the need for the transport of agricultural products and cattle in Buenos Aires Province. The rail network converged on the city of Buenos...
Lists of events in the history of railtransport are organised into the yearly lists below. Trains portal History of railtransport Timeline of railway...
article is part of the history of railtransport by country series. The history of railtransportin Japan began in the late Edo period. There have been...
was part of the Public Transport Commission and from 1980, the State Rail Authority. In 1989, the SRA was split into CityRail, CountryLink and FreightCorp...
related to railtransport that occurred in 1812. July 6 – The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway becomes the first public railway line to open in Scotland. It...
Railroad opened in 1834, connecting the Philadelphia and Columbia to the Delaware River north of downtown, and later that year the Southwark Rail-Road opened...
The history of railtransportin Finland began on January 31, 1862, with the opening of the railway line between Helsinki and Hämeenlinna. By 1900 most...
related to railtransport that occurred in 1830. January 7 – The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road opens its first section, 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km), in Baltimore...
of railtransport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail infrastructure...
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