Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
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The Llanfyllin Branch - Part 2[
In the first...
The Llanfyllin Branch - Part 2[
In the first article in this short series, we finished the first part of our journey from Oswestry along the Llanfyllin Branch just after passing through Carreghofa...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
27th April 2025, 07:35
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The Mother of All Inventions?
When and why were railways created? What were the circumstances which brought about their existence?
History does not make it easy to take out one example from a steady continuum of change. ......
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
24th April 2025, 19:45
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
22nd April 2025, 19:01
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Henry Robinson Palmer and Early British Monorails
Henry Robinson Palmer and Early British Monorails
Henry Robinson Palmer (1793-1844) was a British engineer who designed the first monorail system and also invented corrugated iron!
Born in 1793...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
21st April 2025, 21:22
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Early Monorail Proposals in Russia
I came across this when looking into early railways. ...
Ivan Kirillovich Elmanov (Russian: Иван Кириллович Эльманов) was a Russian inventor. During 1820, in Myachkovo, near Moscow, he built a...
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Forum: Light Rail and Metros
21st April 2025, 12:57
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Forum: Freight Operations and Observations
17th April 2025, 22:02
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A Short-lived Horse-powered 'Railway' in Hungary
The first Hungarian ‘railway line’ was completed nearly 20 years before the first steam-powered railway in Hungary (which was opened in 1846) on 15th August 1827, and ran from Pest to Kőbánya.
It...
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Forum: Freight Operations and Observations
13th April 2025, 16:00
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Forum: Light Rail and Metros
4th April 2025, 21:33
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The Giants Causeway and Portrush Tramway
In the Summer of 2024, my wife and I visited Giants’ Causeway as part of a few days meandering along the North coast of Ireland. When reading a series of older copies of the Modern Tramway, I came...
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Forum: Light Rail and Metros
3rd April 2025, 20:35
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Khartoum Trams
Khartoum, Sudan Again – The Modern Tramway, Vol. 13 No. 156 – December 1950.
The Modern Tramway reported in December 1950 on the purchase by the Sudan Light & Power Company of the new 4-motor...
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Forum: Light Rail and Metros
1st April 2025, 20:59
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Stockport's Tramways
Stockport Corporation Tramways – Modern Tramway Vol. 12 No. 138, June 1949 – Part 1
P.W. Gentry wrote about Stockport’s trams in the July 1949 issue of Modern Tramway.
He says: “Besides...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
30th March 2025, 15:24
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Marseilles Tramways
The Tramways of Marseilles – The Modern Tramway, Vol. 13, No. 150, June 1950
The June 1950 issue of The Modern Tramway carried a report by A. A. Jackson on the tramways in the French port of...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
28th March 2025, 22:35
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Part 5
The Network during World War 2
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Part 5
The Network during World War 2
During the war period, new work was suspended and maintenance was reduced to a minimum; tunnels were used as air raid shelters, and the service schedules...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
20th March 2025, 20:02
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A Lickey Light Railway. .......
Lickey Light Railway – Modern Tramway Vol. 13 No. 146
The mention of ‘Lickey’ in the railway press usually conjures up thoughts of the Lickey Incline and the bankers needed to enable steam-powered...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
18th March 2025, 22:23
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Historic Trams - Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Ohio
Shaker Heights Rapid Transit Lines – Modern Tramway Vol. 12 No. 137, May 1949
Modern Tramway Journal talks, in 1949, of the Shaker Heights Rapid Transit (SHRT) Lines as “A high speed electric...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
17th March 2025, 16:36
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
17th March 2025, 13:57
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
16th March 2025, 16:11
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Early New South Wales Railmotors. .........
Two Experimental New South Wales Railmotors in the Early 20th Century
In April 1920, a couple of paragraphs in The Railway Magazine focussed on a new experimental Railmotor constructed by New...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
15th March 2025, 21:09
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Genoa's Early Tram Network - Part 3
The Rest...
Genoa's Early Tram Network - Part 3
The Rest of the Eastern Network
The line running from Piazza Corvetto to Prato will be covered in this article, along with those which ran out of Piazza...
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Forum: Narrow Gauge
13th March 2025, 21:29
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The Cavan and Leitrim Railway again. ......
It has taken me a while to get round to completing this article! ….
Saturday 6th May 2023 was the first time that I had been able to visit the Cavan & Leitrim at Dromod. A planned visit in 2020...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
11th March 2025, 19:38
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The Canterbury & Whitstable Railway
The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway: ‘The Second Public Railway Opened in England’?? – The Railway Magazine, October 1907
C.R. Henry of the South-Eastern & Chatham Railway wrote about this line...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
10th March 2025, 23:03
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Genoa’s Early Tram Network – Part 2
In this...
Genoa’s Early Tram Network – Part 2
In this article we look at the service provided on another large portion of the remainder of the network in the period up to the First World War.
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
9th March 2025, 14:49
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Genoa’s Early Tram Network – Part 1 – General...
Genoa’s Early Tram Network – Part 1 – General Introduction, Tunnels, The Years before World War One, and the Early Western Network.
Introduction and Early History ....
We begin this article...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
8th March 2025, 19:25
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Genova's Metro
The Metropolitana di Genova...
Genova's Metro
The Metropolitana di Genova is, in 2024, a single-line, double-track light rapid transit system that connects the centre of Genova, Italy with the suburb of Rivarolo Ligure, to the...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
6th March 2025, 22:38
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