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Cassville and Exeter Railway: Cassville and Western Railway: 1896 1913 Cassville and Western Railroad: Central Railway of Missouri: RI: 1881 1883 St. Louis and Central Missouri Railway: Central Missouri Railway: MKT: 1885 1888 Cleveland, St. Louis and Kansas City Railway: Central North Missouri Branch of the St. Joseph and Iowa Railroad: CB&Q ...
Cassville is a city in Flat Creek Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States. According to the 2020 census , the population of Cassville was 3,190. [ 4 ] Cassville is one of the primary markets and job centers for an estimated 14,000 people living in the surrounding area. [ 5 ]
Because the railway ran only 4.8 miles one-way, the railway had to rely on steam power to travel uphill back to Exeter. Since Exeter is the highest point in the county, it was able to use gravity to coast back downhill to Cassville [7] During its economic height, a hotel called The Palace was also built in Exeter as well as a flour mill. [8]
The West of England line (also known as the West of England Main Line) is a British railway line from Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Exeter St Davids in Devon, England.. Passenger services run between London Waterloo station and Exeter; the line intersects with the Wessex Main Line at
At Exeter, the LSWR had its own station, Queen Street, more conveniently situated than the St Davids station of the Bristol & Exeter Railway (B&ER), but its elevated location made onward extension into west Devon difficult. When it eventually did so, it descended by a steep and curved connection into the B&ER station, running a few miles ...
Pearson was the engineer responsible for the daily operations of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's ill-fated atmospheric equipment on the South Devon Railway.Trains only ran in service from 13 September 1847 to 9 September 1848, but he was retained while the equipment was disposed of.
Possibly the most remarkable were some 4-2-4 engines for the Bristol and Exeter Railway built in 1853/4 with 9-foot-diameter (2.7 m) unflanged driving wheels, and two ball-and-socket swivelled bogies. They weighed 42 tons and achieved speeds of 82 miles per hour (132 km/h), the fastest engines of the time.
September 1 — The first Pullman sleeping car leaves Bloomington, Illinois, on an overnight trip to Chicago; first Pullman conductor is Jonathan L. Barnes.; September 12 – At a meeting under Drammen chairmanship in Norway, construction of a railway line to connect Drammen and Randsfjorden, later known as the Randsfjorden Line, is selected over the option for a waterway.