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1 day ago · edit. Show diagram map. The West Coast Main Line ( WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London and Glasgow with branches to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh. It is one of the busiest mixed-traffic railway routes in Europe, carrying a mixture of intercity rail ...
- 399 mi (642 km)
- Operational
- 1837–1869
- Network Rail
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1 day ago · The same viaduct completed in February 2021. California High-Speed Rail ( CAHSR) is a publicly funded high-speed rail system being developed in California by the California High-Speed Rail Authority. Phase 1, about 494 miles (795 km) long, is planned to run from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Anaheim via the Central Valley, and is partially ...
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- High-speed rail
- California, United States
1 day ago · Rail transport. A train in Alaska transporting crude oil in March 2006. Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. [1] Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport.
1 day ago · History For a chronological guide, see Timeline of Kaliningrad. The history of the city may be divided into four periods: the Old Prussian settlement known as Twangste before 1255; the Polish city of Królewiec from 1454 to 1455 and then fief of Poland from 1456 to 1657; the German city of Königsberg from 1657 to 1945; and the Russian city of Kaliningrad from 1945 to present. Twangste Old ...
- 223.03 km² (86.11 sq mi)
- 1 September 1255
- 5 m (16 ft)
- Russia
1 day ago · Slovenia is the third most-forested country in Europe, [121] with 58.3% of the territory covered by forests. [122] The forests are an important natural resource, and logging is kept to a minimum. [123] In the interior of the country are typical Central European forests, predominantly oak and beech.
1 day ago · Illustration representing Cecil Rhodes' plan of building railways across Africa, connecting Cape Town and Cairo, aimed at extending the British Empire. Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural ...
1 day ago · UA-43. May 2015 satellite image of the Crimean Peninsula. Crimea [b] ( / kraɪˈmiːə / ⓘ kry-MEE-ə) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukraine.
