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  2. Algeciras Gibraltar Railway Company - Wikipedia

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    The railway was built for the benefit of British officers stationed in Gibraltar wanting to travel to Spain and the rest of Europe. [2] To avoid offending Spanish sensitivities, the line was built concluding in Algeciras, a town in Spain on the opposite side of the Bay of Gibraltar, rather than at the Gibraltar border.

  3. Algeciras-Bobadilla railway - Wikipedia

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    The Algeciras-Bobadilla railway was built for the benefit of British officers stationed in Gibraltar wanting to travel to Spain and the rest of Europe. [2] To avoid offending Spanish sensitivities, the line was built concluding in Algeciras, a town in Spain on the opposite side of the Bay of Gibraltar, rather than at the Gibraltar border.

  4. Transport in Gibraltar - Wikipedia

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    At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries there was also a temporary industrial railway in Gibraltar. At the period when both railways were operational, it was possible to travel right round the entire coastline of Gibraltar by train. [10] The dockyard railway had a roster of 17 locomotives, distinguished by numbers, but four of which also ...

  5. Category:Rail transport in Gibraltar - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 10 February 2019, at 02:10 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. Great Continental Railway Journeys - Wikipedia

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    Production of a second series included filming in Spain and Gibraltar in May and June 2013, following the Ronda–Algeciras railway line, built in the 1890s by British interests under the Algeciras Gibraltar Railway Company, for the benefit of British officers stationed in Gibraltar wanting to travel to Spain and the rest of Europe. [3]

  7. Intercontinental and transoceanic fixed links - Wikipedia

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    The Gibraltar Tunnel is proposed to be a rail tunnel linking Africa and Europe. A tunnel would likely be an electrified rail tunnel with car shuttles due to the depth of the Strait of Gibraltar (up to 900 metres (3,000 ft)) and the length of the tunnel making it a great challenge to remove vehicle exhaust. Similar considerations led to the ...

  8. Gibraltar - Wikipedia

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    An aerial view Gibraltar from the air, looking north-west. Gibraltar (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ b r ɔː l t ər / ⓘ jib-RAWL-tər, Spanish: [xiβɾalˈtaɾ]) is a British Overseas Territory [a] and city [6] located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar).

  9. San Roque–La Línea railway - Wikipedia

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    In 2016 a plan was made to use trams on the rail lines already in place since 1970 using EU funds. [3] In 2021, after details emerged about a possible accession agreement of Gibraltar into the Schengen Area, the Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo commented on the potential of railway development upwards towards Europe. [4]