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Single ticket, or Return ticket with delay on both the outward and return journey: 50% of the price paid Return ticket with delay on outward or return journey: 50% of the price paid for the relevant portion of the journey Season ticket: The discount or compensation arrangements in the relevant train company's Passenger's Charter apply
Had a railway line from 1883 until 1931 (11 km) and a three line tramway network from 1905 until 1929 (circa 14 km) 470 Micronesia: 583 Nicaragua: Suspended in September 2001 558 Oman: Proposals as part of Gulf Railway. Has a short tourist line at the Al Hoota Cave. 512 Palau: Had an industrial line. Has a short tourist monorail (of small gauge)
A time–distance diagram is a chart with two axes: one for time, the other for location. The units on either axis depend on the type of project: time can be expressed in minutes (for overnight construction of railroad modification projects such as the installation of switches) or years (for large construction projects); the location can be (kilo)meters, or other distinct units (such as ...
A railway track (CwthE and UIC terminology) or railroad track (NAmE), also known as permanent way (CwthE) [1] or "P Way" (BrE [2] and Indian English), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers (railroad ties in American English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.
Includes all public and private rail services. For only the JR group rail companies, the figure in 2019 was 9,503 million passengers. [7] 2 India: 8,439 2019 Includes Indian Railways suburban and intercity traffic only, excludes the passengers carried by rapid transit systems. The Delhi Metro alone transported 1.73 billion passengers in 2018. 3 ...
Network Rail: 08: Diesel 15 24 1 [77] 43: Diesel 125 200 5 Used for the New Measurement Train [88] 97: Diesel 80 130 4 Modified Class 37 locomotives. [74] RailAdventure: 43: Diesel 125 200 8 6 power cars operational for empty stock movements plus 2 for spares [89] Rail Operations Group: 37: Diesel 80 130 6 47/4: 75 120 6 57/3: 95 152 4 ScotRail ...
Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail ...
The train ran the wrong way down the line and was hit head-on by a First Great Western HST service from Cheltenham Spa to Paddington at a closing speed of approximately 130 mph (210 km/h). 31 people died, including both drivers, with more than 520 people injured.