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  2. Cross-platform interchange - Wikipedia

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    Ormskirk railway station in Lancashire, United Kingdom, was a double-track railway until 1970, when it was converted into single-track railway with the track split in the centre by buffer stops placed back-to-back. The two ends of the single platform terminate different routes, and interchange for through service is by walking along the platform.

  3. Line 1 (Chongqing Rail Transit) - Wikipedia

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    Line 1 of CRT runs westwards from Chaotianmen to Bishan.Line 1 began operation on 28 July 2011. [2]Line 1 runs 16.4 km (10.2 mi) from Chaotianmen in downtown Chongqing west to Shapingba, and eventually all the way to Shuangbei for a total length of 22.4 km (13.9 mi).

  4. Line 5 Eglinton - Wikipedia

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    Line 5 Eglinton, also known as the Eglinton Crosstown LRT or the Crosstown, is a light rail transit line that is under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that will be part of the Toronto subway system.

  5. Urban rail transit in China - Wikipedia

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    As of December 2024, China has the world's longest urban rail transit system with 11,000.88 km (6,835.63 mi) of urban rail nationwide in 310 metro lines in 47 cities, accounting for 9 of the 10 longest metro systems, with the exceptions of the Moscow Metro.

  6. Light rail - Wikipedia

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    In Los Angeles, expansion of mass transit has been driven in large part by light rail.. Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit that uses rolling stock derived from tram technology [1] while also having some features from heavy rapid transit.

  7. History of rail transport - Wikipedia

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    A replica of a "Little Eaton Tramway" wagon, the tracks are plateways. Cast iron rails of the Alexandrovsky plant railway in Russia. 1788.. The introduction of steam engines for powering blast air to blast furnaces led to a large increase in British iron production after the mid-1750s.

  8. List of countries by rail transport network size - Wikipedia

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    Had a plantation railway 044 Barbados: Had a public railway. Has a 3 km tourist line opened in 2019. 052 Belize: Had one public railway and a number of private lines 084 Brunei: Has a 4 km section of pier railway (so is outside the definition for this article) 096 Burundi: Had an internal port railway 108 Cape Verde: Had a harbour railway 132

  9. List of railway companies - Wikipedia

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    New Zealand Railways Corporation (Rail operator 1981 – 1990, land owner 1990 – 2003, Ontrack 2003–2008, railway land owner 2008 – present) New Zealand Rail Limited (Defunct, privatised 1993, renamed Tranz Rail in 1995)