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Big Chute Marine Railway is a patent slip at lock 44 (in the township of Georgian Bay) of the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada. It works on an inclined plane to carry boats in individual cradles over a change of height of about 60 feet (18 m). It is the only marine railway (or canal inclined plane) of its kind in North America still in ...
Line length. 17 mi (27 km) The Chignecto Marine Transport Railway (sometimes referred to as the Chignecto Ship Railway or Baie Verte Ship Railway) is a historic Canadian portage railway located in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia . With Canadian Confederation in 1867, a variety of canal-building projects were undertaken throughout the new country ...
Dates of operation. 1898–1949 (merged into CN), abandoned 1988. Technical. Track gauge. 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) The Newfoundland Railway was a narrow-gauge railway that operated on the island of Newfoundland from 1898 to 1988. With a total track length of 906 miles (1,458 km), it was the longest 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow-gauge system in North ...
British Railways ships. British Railways operated a number of ships from its formation in 1948 on a variety of routes. Many ships were acquired on nationalisation, and others were built for operation by British Railways or its later subsidiary, Sealink. Those ships capable of carrying rail vehicles were classed under TOPS as Class 99.
Media in category "Rail transport images". The following 7 files are in this category, out of 7 total. BR&PbridgeInChili.jpg 638 × 417; 163 KB. City of new orleans observation car.jpg 713 × 782; 217 KB. Devils Slide.jpg 360 × 480; 53 KB. Karlovasi harbour tram.jpg 701 × 444; 58 KB.
The Panama Canal Railway (PCR, Spanish: Ferrocarril de Panamá) is a railway line linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in Central America. The route stretches 47.6 miles (76.6 km) across the Isthmus of Panama from Colón (Atlantic) to Balboa (Pacific, near Panama City). [2] Because of the difficult physical conditions of the route ...
The 'Golden Arrow' leaving Victoria Station, London, in 1953. The Golden Arrow (French: Flèche d’Or) was a luxury boat train of the Southern Railway and later British Railways. It linked London with Dover, where passengers took the ferry to Calais to join the Flèche d’Or of the Chemin de Fer du Nord and later SNCF which took them on to Paris.
Train ferry. A train ferry is a ship (ferry) designed to carry railway vehicles. Typically, one level of the ship is fitted with railway tracks, and the vessel has a door at the front and/or rear to give access to the wharves. In the United States, train ferries are sometimes referred to as "car ferries", [1][2] as distinguished from "auto ...