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B1 class Gladstone at the National Railway Museum, York, decorated as it was for Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897 [1] The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway B1 Class is a class of 0-4-2 express passenger steam locomotives , known from the name of the first, No. 214, as the "Gladstones".
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The remainder of the car was split into three waiting rooms with folding seats; these rooms were 3 ft 6.625 in (1.08 m) 7 ft 3.25 in (2.22 m) and 5 ft 11.25 in (1.81 m) respectively. The car was scrapped on 29 May 1939, and replaced with the former dining car Wimmera as the new Medical and Test Vision Car.
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
Early steam locomotive hauled passenger trains often had a van compartment replacing one of the passenger compartments in one of the carriages; vans so-fitted included the ABD, AD and BD classes. The late 1880s onwards saw some bogie carriages fitted out with a similar style of guard's accommodation, in the AD AD , ABD ABD and BD BD of 1887 ...
A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line, as opposed to a freight train that carries goods. [1] [2] These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known as coaches or carriages) hauled by one or more locomotives, or may be self-propelled; self propelled passenger trains are known as multiple units or railcars.
The first passenger train in South India ran from Royapuram / Veyasarapady to Wallajah Road on 1 July 1856, for a distance of 60 miles. It was built and operated by Madras Railway. [ 109 ] On 24 February 1873, the first tramway (a horse-drawn tramway ) opened in Calcutta between Sealdah and Armenian Ghat Street, a distance of 3.8 km. [ 110 ]
[1] Canadian Pacific Railway colonist car No. 2809, 1924. However by the 1880s, railways competing for immigrant traffic on longer routes to western North America developed specialized cars for immigrants providing simple sleeping berths and cooking facilities. Early examples were introduced by the Central Pacific Railroad in 1879. [2]