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Light railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (444 words) |
 | A light railway was a railway built or operated in the United Kingdom under the 1896 Light Railways Act although the term is used more generally of any lightly built railway with limited traffic, often controlled locally and running unusual and/or ancient rolling stock. |
| A light railway is properly distinct from a tramway which operates under differing rules and may share a road. |
| A form of light railway is an Industrial railway used to serve a mine or factory or timber mill. |
| Rapid transit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4175 words) |
| Elevated railways were a popular way to build mass transit systems in cities around the turn of the twentieth century, but they have fallen out of favour; and many elevated lines were later demolished, being replaced by subways or buses. |
| The first underground railway in continental Europe was the Tünel, an underground 573-meter funicular between the quarters of Beyoğlu and Galata in the European part of Istanbul, completed in 1875 by French engineers on behalf of the Ottoman Empire. |
| Profitable suburban railways in Japan are among the oldest in the nation, and were built and operated privately and cheaply through what had been rural areas, now often dense urban areas. |
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