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THIS is part one in a series of three on this fatal rail accident near Tarana where eight died and nine were injured.
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An item about the Altrincham Gas Works Tramway appeared on the Industrial Railway Society (IRS) email discussion group to which I belong.
Posted yesterday by Railpage System User
I recently picked up a copy of each of the two volumes of ‘Permanent Way‘ written by M.F. Hill and published in 1949.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
A railway station isn’t the kind of thing you expect us to report on being misplaced – whether it is full size or just a model.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
I recently picked up a copy of each of the two volumes of ‘Permanent Way‘ written by M.F. Hill and published in 1949.
Posted 2 weeks ago by newsbot
Missoula County Commissioner Dave Strohmaier has a dream to restore a long-gone type of mass transit to Montana's southern railroad route.
Posted 2 weeks ago by bevans
By the end of 2000 the increased frequency with which Lachaln Valley Rail Freight’s train no.4168 from Sandgate to Botany operated and the increase in loading for the train had resulted in the company scrambling to lease any motive power available.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Snow removal on the railroad is a job that has been around since the earliest railroads themselves.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
How many times have I gazed out of the window of my roomette and noticed something interesting in a small town—in Oregon or Montana or maybe in Upper New York State.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Peak Rail Association have told RailAdvent that they have purchased a Steam Breakdown Crane from Peak Rail PLC.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Published by Silver Link Publishing Ltd in 2009, this excellent book is made up of the personal reflections of the two authors on their memories of following steam as teenagers in the years 1962 to 1967.
Posted 3 weeks ago by bevans
Today's historic photo of the day: A 3-car 'Hitachi' electric train with car 3M nearest the camera sitting under the train shed at the railway station at St Kilda, Vic, 35 years ago today, December 22 1985.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
It has been some time since I last posted about the Uganda Railway.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
Egypt is the second country in the world after England, which introduced the railways to its land, and the Egyptian railways are the first lines to be built in Africa and the Middle East, as their construction began in the fifties of the nineteenth century, specifically on July 12, 1851, and began operating in 1854.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
Builder - Comeng, Granville
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
In early September 2020, while staying in Bream in the Forest of Dean we walked around the Titanic Steel Works and the Dark Hill Ironworks of father and son David and Robert Mushet.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
1992 was also a watershed year for Kathryn M. Farmer, a 22-year-old Texas Christian University M.J. Neely School of Business graduate holding a Bachelor of Business Administration degree who had just joined the Burlington Northern’s management trainee program.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
Two members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters carry luggage from a sleeping car in this 1946 photo.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
November 6th, 1855: On this date in railroad history, 68 engineers from 13 states representing 45 railroads met in Baltimore, Maryland to organize the National Protective Association of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of the United States, say that three times fast, forming the nation’s first railroad union.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
As we noted at the start of the two previous articles about this line, Wikipedia gives us a very short history of the line from Strabane to Letterkenny and provides a single image – the Railway Clearing House map with stations in Strabane and Letterkenny.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
South Shore Randolph St. terminal in Chicago, 5-5-79.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
On a visit to Ludlow in late October 2020, my wife and I drove down through Ironbridge Gorge on the River Severn. Just North of Ironbridge we drive through the village of Coalport and over a bridge which spanned a steep inclined plane – two steeply graded parallel railway lines.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
Conrail GP7 crossing the Calumet RiverChicagoAugust 13, 1980Photo by Bill Johnson
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
Since its establishment by the Post Office Department in 1864 to help facilitate mail delivery over greater distances and quantities, the Railway Mail Service became a reliable entity for the transit of mail across the United States via the railroads.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
There is something inherently special when it comes to stories about man’s best friend. From Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey to Call of the Wild, whether the story is fiction or not, there is nothing more endearing than following the adventures of a loveable dog brings a smile to the face and joy to the world.
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