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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 (multiple units). |
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The Hillsboro Central/3rd Avenue Transit Center station is an American light rail station and transit center on the MAX Blue Line in Hillsboro, Oregon. Opened in 1998, the red-brick station is the 19th stop westbound on the Westside MAX, one stop from the western terminus of the line. Physically the largest station on the line, it is located at a former stop of the Oregon Electric Railway and includes artwork honoring the history of the community. The station building is designed to look like an old railroad station with features similar to those at a Grand Central Station type of facility.
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A Chemins de Fer Syriens passenger train crosses the Haradara bridge east of Aleppo near the border with Turkey in 2007. This line is part of the former Baghdad Railway.
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Did you know...
- ...that the Valmet RM 2 trams built in 1956, three of which have been preserved, were the last trams acquired for the Turku tram network in Finland prior to its closure in 1972 and have come to be known as "ghost cars"?
- ...that Urgell station on the Barcelona Metro in Spain is one of the oldest metro stations in the city, as it is part of the first section of L1 (then Ferrocarril Metropolità Transversal) to be built when it opened in 1926?
- ...that Union Station in Gary, Indiana, which is located between the elevated lines of the former Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was built in 1910 utilizing the new cast-in-place concrete methods in which, after pouring, the concrete was scored to resemble stone?
- ...that Kyoto Municipal Subway's 17.5-kilometre (10.9 mi) long Tōzai Line connecting Uji and Uzumasa Tenjingawa Station in Ukyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan, handles an average of 120,000 passengers daily?
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- 1834 – The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad is formed to connect cities in Virginia.
- 1843 – The Grand Duke of Hesse and Grand Duke of Baden in present day Germany agree to construct the Main-Neckar-Eisenbahn (pictured) from Heidelberg to a connection with the state railway in Baden.
- 1851 – The first passenger train on the Milwaukee Road operates over what is then known as the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad between Milwaukee, and Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
- 2005 – Bombardier is awarded a contract to build 361 passenger cars for the new Qingzang railway to Lhasa, Tibet; due to the destination's altitude the cars include special UV-filtering glass and a unique oxygen enriching system.
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February 15, 2012 – A Stadler FLIRT of the Norwegian State Railways derails during testing near Nykirke on the Vestfold Line. All five people on board—all railway employees—were injured. The class of electric multiple units were scheduled to be put into revenue service two weeks later. (NRK)
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August 31, 2011 – The London Docklands Light Railway is extended with 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Canning Town to Stratford International. This extension was started in October 2006 and cost £211m to complete. Including four new and three unconverted stations, the route will connect to the High Speed 1 and provide access to 2012 Summer Olympic venues. (Railway Gazette)
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July 23, 2011 – Two high-speed trains collide on a viaduct in the suburbs of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, resulting in a derailment which killed 40 people and injured at least 210. The collision was the first fatal crash involving high-speed rail in China, and the second-deadliest HSR accident in history following the 1998 Eschede train disaster in Germany. (BBC News) (Xinhua)
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June 30, 2011 – The first regular revenue trains are operated on the newly constructed Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway in China. The new line, which opened a year ahead of schedule, reduces travel time over the 1,318-kilometre (819 mi) route to under five hours. Although ticket prices for the new rail service are much higher than existing services on parallel routes, airline companies serving the line's endpoints have reduced their ticket prices in response for trips between the two cities by as much as 65%. (Independent) (Wall Street Journal)
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April 11, 2011 – Fourteen people are killed and more than a hundred injured after a bomb explodes in a Minsk Metro station in Minsk, Belarus. According to witnesses, the explosion happened just after a train entered the Oktyabrskaya station at about 1755 local time (1555 UTC). The explosion reportedly damaged the station, with a section of the ceiling having collapsed. (BBC)
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March 11, 2011 – A 9.0 MW megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan disrupts rail service throughout the country. All railway services were suspended in Tokyo, with an estimated 20,000 people stranded at major stations across the city. Various train services around Japan were also canceled, with JR East suspending all services for the rest of the day. Most railway service was resumed on March 12. See also: 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami (USGS) (JR East)
WikiProjects
WikiProject Trains (Shortcut: WP:TWP)
- WikiProject Stations (WP:STA)
- WikiProject Streetcars (WP:TRAM)
- WikiProject Rapid transit (WP:RTPJ)
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