Portal:Trains

Portals → Technology → Transport → Trains

The trains portal

Image:

Candidates · Archive

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 (multiple units).

As of 2017^[update], there are approximately 1,051,767.605 kilometres (653,538.091 mi) of railway track in use worldwide. (World Bank)

Shortcuts

edit

Selected article

Mysen Station (Norwegian: Mysen stasjon) is a railway station located at Mysen in Eidsberg, Norway. Situated 64.77 kilometers (40.25 mi) from Oslo Central Station (Oslo S), it is served hourly by the L22 service of the Norwegian State Railways' Oslo Commuter Rail. It is the terminus of most L22 services. The station had 251,000 boarding and disembarking passengers in 2012. The station opened on 24 November 1882 with a station building designed by Balthazar Lange in Swiss chalet style. The town of Mysen grew up around the station, and soon featured the municipal center, shopping and industry. A grain elevator was built in 1953. The original station was demolished in 1986 to make way for a building complex. The station platforms were modernized in 2014.

Recently selected: Munich S-Bahn - Muni Metro - Mumbai Suburban Railway

Archive - Candidates

edit

Selected image

An electric multiple unit train of the Staatsspoorwegen, the state railway company, stands for a formal train portrait in Tanjung Priok, Dutch East Indies, circa 1920.

Recently selected: Bangalore Rajdhani Express - flatcar loaded with logs - Guatemala City station roundhouse

Archive - Candidates

edit

Did you know...

...that the Węgliniec–Roßlau railway connecting Germany and Poland includes one of the oldest extant station buildings in Germany, the original Wittenberg station built in 1841?
...that with 41 deaths and 42 injuries, the 1918 Weesp train disaster was the largest train disaster in Dutch railway history until the 1962 Harmelen train disaster?
...that the 2 ft (610 mm) gauge Wee Georgie Wood Railway in Tasmania was named after its steam locomotive, which itself was named after the British actor and comedian Wee Georgie Wood?
...that following a dispute with the village of Wayzata, Minnesota, James J. Hill ordered that Wayzata station be removed in 1891, and not rebuilt until the city passed a reconciliation ordinance in 1905?

Archive - Candidates

edit

Selected anniversaries

May 1

1872 – The Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway, in England, opens.
1872 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad begins construction westward from Newton, Kansas, toward Colorado.
1917 – The Santa Fe de Luxe passenger train between Chicago and Los Angeles is discontinued as it is not considered essential for the war effort.
1971 – Amtrak (pictured) begins operations of most intercity passenger train service in the United States.

More... - Archive

edit

Trains News

March 29, 2020 – The Wuhan Metro and other railway services in Wuhan partially restart after a 65 day shutdown to combat the effects of Covid-19. Six of the nine lines on the Wuhan Metro have restarted operation, while the other 3 lines remain suspended. (CGTN.com, Reuters, China.org.cn)

March 22, 2020 – Indian Railways announces that it will suspend passenger service as part of the 2020 India coronavirus lockdown. (Metrosaga.com, Business Traveller.com)

December 19, 2019 – Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and rail company CSX Transportation announced a deal to expand rail service in Virginia including Amtrak Virginia service and the Virginia Railway Express, and doubling the Long Bridge across the Potomac River. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Washington Post)

November 21, 2019 – the operators of the Towner Railway, a small line serving farmers in Colorado and Kansas, have made an offer to buy and reactivate the Tennessee Pass rail line from the Union Pacific Railroad. The Tennessee Pass Line was once the primary rail link across the Rocky Mountains in the USA, but became a secondary route in the 1930s with the completion of the Moffat Tunnel and Dotsero Cutoff. The line has been completely dormant since 1997. (Kiowa County Independent) Business Standard)