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Railroad transportation: Its history and its laws (1885) pp 187–202 online; Landes, David. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (Cambridge, 1972) online; Lefranc, Georges. "The French Railroads, 1823–1842", Journal of Business and Economic History, II, 1929–30 ...
1838 – The world's first railroad junction is formed in Branchville, South Carolina. The railroad company extended its existing rail that ran between Charleston and the Savannah River to the north toward Orangeburg and Columbia. Both rail lines closely paralleled old Native American trails. 1838 – Edmondson railway ticket introduced.
An ETR 500 train running on the Florence–Rome high-speed line near Arezzo, the first high-speed railway opened in Europe [3] Across the EU, passenger rail transport saw a 50% increase between 2021 and 2022, with the 2022 passenger-kilometers figure being slightly under that of 2019 (i.e. before the COVID-19 pandemic ). [ 4 ]
Mainland Normandy was integrated into the Kingdom of France in 1204. The region was badly damaged during the Hundred Years War and the Wars of Religion, the Normans having more converts to Protestantism than other peoples of France. In the 20th century, D-Day, the 1944 Allied invasion of Western Europe
The French National Railways used to run a considerable number of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge lines, a few of which still operate mostly in tourist areas, such as the St Gervais-Vallorcine (Alps) and the "Petit Train Jaune" (little yellow train) in the Pyrenees. The original French scheme was that every sous-prefecture should be ...
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Timeline of Class I railroads (1910–1929) ... Timeline of Jersey City, New Jersey-area railroads; L.
Riesa, until 1839, 117 km, Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company, first German long-distance railway, first steam only railway in Germany, included first standard gauge rail tunnel in continental Europe 1838 22 September Berlin: Potsdam: Zehlendorf, 26.4 km, Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway, first steam railway in Prussia: 1 December Brunswick ...
In 2017, there were 1.762 billion journeys on the French national rail network, among which 1.270 billion on SNCF services [1] and 493 million on RATP sections of the RER, [2] the express regional network operating in the Paris area which is shared between both companies. The Paris suburban rail services represents alone 82% of the French rail ...