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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 ...
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.
The 6-to-8.5-kilometre-long (3 + 3 ⁄ 4 to 5 + 1 ⁄ 4 mi) roadway was a rudimentary form of railway, [3] and operated from c. 600 BC until the middle of the first century AD. [4] The Diolkos combined the two principles of the railway and the overland transport of ships, on a scale that remained unique in antiquity. [5]
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.
TSS Duke of Lancaster is a former railway steamer passenger ship that operated in Europe from 1956 to 1979, and is beached at Llannerch-y-Mor Wharf near Mostyn Docks, on the River Dee, in north Wales. She replaced an earlier 3,600-ton ship of the same name operated by the London Midland and Scottish Railway company between Heysham and Belfast.
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 ferries" used to ...
H. C. Casserley. Henry Cyril Casserley[1] (12 June 1903 – 16 December 1991) [2] was a British railway photographer. His prolific work in the 1920s and 1930s, the result of travelling to remote corners of the railway network in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has provided subsequent generations with a comprehensive source of illustrations for ...