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Oklahoma completed, with a bit of Arkansas as a bonus. Lots to explore!
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ALT Map showing historic railroads across the western USA.
Big update for the canal map, with southern navigations updated. Thanks to @LoweChrisR who produces this excellent map.
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ALT Map showing historic canals and navigable rivers in southern England.
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France, 1897, a double-decker train more than 125 years ago!
This remarkable early film shows a double-decker suburban train arriving at Joinville-le-Pont, just outside Paris, on the Vincennes railway line.
These unusual carriages provided extra capacity for the growing numbers travelling between Paris and its suburbs. Passengers could travel on the open upper deck, reached by external steps.
Filmed by French cinema pioneer Auguste Baron in 1897, it captures everyday commuters at a time when moving pictures themselves were still an astonishing new invention.
#Paris #1890s #RailwayHistory #Trains #VictorianEra
Northeast Oklahoma added, including Tulsa, Muskogee, Pilcher, Bartlesville and Okmulgee.
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ALT Map of historic railroads in northeast Oklahoma, centred on Tulsa. Includes interurbans and streetcars.
Oklahoma City and much of central Oklahoma added to the map including Guthrie, Cushing, Shawnee, Ardmore, Durant, Ada and Ponca City.
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ALT Map of historic railroads around Oklahoma City.
Western Oklahoma added to the railroad map.
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ALT Map of historic railroads in western Oklahoma.
Kansas City and Joplin, Missouri added to the railroad map. Also completed the legend for Kansas.
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ALT Map of historic railroads in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas. Includes streetcars and interurbans.
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The prototype Class 101 Hamilton Metro-Camm DMU sits at the original Oban Railway Station displaying - circa August 1974.
More information below 👇
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📸 By G N Turnbull
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In 1896, England opened one of the strangest railways ever built.
The Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway didn't run beside the sea.
It ran through it.
Designed by Brighton inventor Magnus Volk, the railway used tracks laid along the seabed between Brighton and Rottingdean.
Its enormous passenger car, nicknamed “Daddy Long-Legs”, stood high above the waves on four 7-metre-long legs, carrying passengers across the water.
The railway finally closed in 1901, when new sea defences forced the track to be moved.
For a few extraordinary years, passengers travelling along the Sussex coast could quite literally take a train through the sea.
Follow @oaksandlions for your daily dose of English history and heritage.
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Amazing photos of the original Oban Station in the 1970s !
📸 By G N Turnbull
(Special thanks is due to Russell for sharing these photos)
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Gustave Eiffel a construit une tour de trois cents mètres. Cinq ans plus tôt, il avait fait plus difficile, et presque personne ne le sait.
C'est le viaduc de Garabit, une arche d'acier rouge jetée au-dessus d'une gorge du Cantal. À son achèvement, aucun pont de chemin de fer au monde ne passait plus haut.
Une rivière, la Truyère, coule au fond d'un ravin entre deux versants abrupts. Il faut y faire passer un train, et aucun pilier ne peut tenir dans le vide.
Alors on ne pose rien au fond. Une seule arche de 165 mètres est lancée d'une rive à l'autre, et la voie court à 122 mètres au-dessus de l'eau, la hauteur d'un immeuble de quarante étages.
Elle n'est pas montée d'un bloc. Deux demi-arches avancent chacune depuis son versant, dans le vide, retenues par des câbles, jusqu'à se rejoindre au milieu. Le chantier dure quatre ans et s'achève en 1884.
Les calculs de vent et de charge mis au point ici serviront de banc d'essai à la tour, cinq ans plus tard.
L'arche est toujours là. Des trains la franchissent encore, et les voyageurs la traversent sans savoir qu'ils sont dans un Eiffel.
Kansas completed.
Lots of detail in the southeast corner of Kansas - I've had trouble with all the mining spurs and interurbans, so let me know if you have more information.
Still need to update the Legend and the Modern Railroads layer.
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ALT Map of historic railroads in southeast Kansas.
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The Hepworth Iron Co railway was laid in the 1860s to connect the works with Woodhead Route between Penistone and Dunford Bridge.
It closed in August 1960.
The train of more than 100 passengers are at Crow Edge village in the 1st picture.
© Mike Swift.
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somewhere up near Washington or Oregon back in the 1880s. they preassembled a station and then loaded it up on a flatcar for transport
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From it's creation in 1918, Ford aerodrome in West Sussex has had a large number of different users.
In the 1930s, the Ford Motor Company decided to use it as a base for their European aircraft sales department. At least they didn't need to change it's name! 😂
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🧵Detail from Nathaniel Whittock’s 1850s view of the city of York clearly showing the "old" railway station within the city walls. A temporary station initially operated just outside the walls for a couple of years before it opened on 4 January 1841. It was designed by George
ALT A detail from Nathaniel Whittock’s 1850s view of the city of York clearly showing the "old" railway station within the city walls. Image courtesy of York Museums Trust (YORAG_R1946-1 )
Southwest Kansas added to the map.
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ALT Map of historic railroads in southwest Kansas, including Hutchinson, McPherson, Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal.
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Pictured at Lydd Town, where there was a passing loop on the otherwise single‐track branch, with the 1.52pm service from New Romney to Ashford on 10 November 1966, is Class 205 No 1118. crecy.co.uk/product/the-sout…
Kansas gets another update for 4th July.
The Kansas Pacific and Missouri Pacific routes across the state are added.
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ALT Map of historic railroads in northern Kansas, including the Kansas Pacific (in dark blue) and Missouri Pacific (in light blue).