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1 day ago · Indian Railways (IR) is a statutory body under the ownership of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India that operates India's national railway system. As of 2023, it manages the fourth largest national railway system by size with a running track length of 104,647 km (65,025 mi) and route length of 68,426 km (42,518 mi) of which ...
- 12 September 1837 (186 years ago)
- 12,12,882 (31 March 2022)
- Indian Railways
- Rail transport
1 day ago · The railway was the focus of the first episode of the BBC Television series Great Little Railways in 1983. Heritage railway: 1988–present White Pass & Yukon Route. 2004 Train entering the tunnel. The shutdown, however, was not for long. Tourism to Alaska began to increase, with many cruise ships stopping at Skagway. The scenery of the White ...
- 107 miles (172 km) (Skagway to Whitehorse); 67.5 miles (108.6 km) (Skagway to Carcross)
- WP&YR, WPY
- August 1, 1900
- 3 ft (914 mm)
1 day ago · The most industrial building in Dortmund are part of the Industrial Heritage Trail (German: Route der Industriekultur). The trail links tourist attractions related to the industrial heritage in the whole Ruhr area in Germany. It is a part of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. U-Tower, former Dortmunder Union brewery, now a museum
- 86 m (282 ft)
- Germany
4 hours ago · Temporary closure planned for rail crossing at James Chaney Drive/49th Ave. ‘When I lost him, my life just stopped.’ Community rallies to help truck driver find lost dog
1 hour ago · He secularized the Order's remaining Prussian territories and assumed from his uncle Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland, the hereditary rights to the Duchy of Prussia as a personal vassal of the Polish Crown, the Prussian Homage. Ducal Prussia retained its currency, laws and faith. The aristocracy was not present in the Sejm.
- c. 1190 – present
1 day ago · Franz Joseph received a bilingual early education in French and German, then added Czech and Hungarian and later Italian and Polish. He also studied Latin and Greek. After the end of the Habsburg Monarchy Otto von Habsburg was fluent in English, French, German, Hungarian, Croatian, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
1 day ago · The Lusitania was sunk on her 202nd trans-Atlantic crossing, on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,197 passengers and crew. The sinking occurred about two years before the United States declaration of war on Germany but significantly increased public support in the US for entering the war.
