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Indian Railways is a statutory body under the ownership of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India that operates India's national railway system...138 KB (9,284 words) - 14:11, 19 November 2024
Rail transport (redirect from Railways)passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or animal power have existed since antiquity, but modern...109 KB (12,441 words) - 22:39, 5 November 2024
Canadian National Railway (redirect from Canadian National Railways)"Canadian National Railways" (CNR). The Canadian National Railways (CNR) was incorporated on June 6, 1919, comprising several railways that had become bankrupt...106 KB (11,238 words) - 18:28, 11 November 2024
Narrow-gauge railway (redirect from Narrow gauge railways)gauge. Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) and 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in). Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter...22 KB (2,496 words) - 09:21, 9 November 2024- Standard-gauge railway (redirect from List of 4 ft 8 in gauge railways)feet eight and one half inches", which is equivalent to 1,435.1 mm. As railways developed and expanded, one of the key issues was the track gauge (the...55 KB (3,620 words) - 22:45, 4 November 2024
- British Rail (redirect from British Railways)British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to...103 KB (10,157 words) - 15:14, 21 November 2024
The Japanese National Railways (日本国有鉄道, Nihon Kokuyū Tetsudō or Nippon Kokuyū Tetsudō) abbreviated JNR or Kokutetsu (国鉄), was the business entity that...19 KB (1,970 words) - 02:47, 10 October 2024
Canadian Pacific Railway (redirect from Canadian Pacific Railways)Federal government created Canadian National Railways (CNR, later CN) out of several bankrupt railways that fell into government hands during and after...135 KB (14,531 words) - 22:17, 20 November 2024
Heritage railway (redirect from Heritage railways)Rail and Road defines heritage railways as follows: ...'lines of local interest', museum railways or tourist railways that have retained or assumed the...50 KB (5,433 words) - 04:32, 11 November 2024
Railway electrification (redirect from Electrified railways)the use of electric power for the propulsion of rail transport. Electric railways use either electric locomotives (hauling passengers or freight in separate...64 KB (7,357 words) - 02:15, 3 November 2024
Pakistan Railways (reporting mark PR) (Urdu: پاکستان ریلویز) is the national, state-owned railway company of Pakistan with its headquarters in Lahore....61 KB (6,612 words) - 09:30, 17 November 2024
The Ministry of Railways is a ministry in the Government of India, responsible for the country's rail transport. Indian Railways is a statutory body managed...17 KB (1,208 words) - 01:17, 8 September 2024
Rail transport in India (redirect from History of Indian Railways)an integrated rail network. Indian Railways (IR), a statutory body under the ownership of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India, operates...129 KB (9,738 words) - 13:30, 5 November 2024
Western Railway zone (redirect from Western Indian Railways)Indian Railways and is among the busiest railway networks in India, headquartered at Mumbai, Maharashtra. The major railway routes of Indian Railways which...22 KB (2,287 words) - 21:23, 31 October 2024- National Rail (redirect from UK's Railways)The TOCs run the passenger services previously provided by the British Railways Board, from 1965 using the brand name British Rail. Northern Ireland, which...26 KB (2,805 words) - 10:16, 16 October 2024
Great Western Railway (redirect from Great Western Railways)company to keep its identity through the Railways Act 1921, which amalgamated it with the remaining independent railways within its territory, and it was finally...103 KB (11,441 words) - 00:00, 28 October 2024
Deutsche Bahn (redirect from German Railways)operator Bonyad Eastern Railways (BonRail) in May 2017 and shortly after a consulting contract with Islamic Republic of Iran Railways; both projects were...38 KB (4,030 words) - 10:16, 23 November 2024- Eastern Railway zone (redirect from Eastern Railways (India))The Eastern Railway (abbreviated ER) is among the 19 zones of the Indian Railways. Its headquarters is at Fairley Place, Kolkata and comprises four divisions:...10 KB (831 words) - 02:48, 9 October 2024
Swiss Federal Railways (German: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, SBB; French: Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, CFF; Italian: Ferrovie federali svizzere, FFS)...39 KB (4,066 words) - 06:26, 26 October 2024- Broad-gauge railway (redirect from Broad-gauge railways)rails) broader than the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) used by standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in), more known as Russian gauge...32 KB (4,247 words) - 03:21, 8 October 2024
- IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪlˌweɪz/ Hyphenation: rail‧ways railways plural of railway
- Britannica, Volume 22 Railways by Hugh Munro Ross 13568451911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 22 — RailwaysHugh Munro Ross RAILWAYS. Railways had their origin
- Poland (redirect from Poland:Narrow-gauge railways)apply. Narrow gauge - Poland still retains a number of local narrow-gauged railways. Some of them are oriented towards tourism and operate only in summer or
- Rail transport (redirect from Railways)an urgent dispatch to Vienna was one week. But in the 1840s and 1850s railways started to spread across the Continent, while steamships dramatically reduced
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