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3 days ago · Operation Unthinkable was actually a set of two related contingency plans developed by the British military in 1945 at the end of World War II. The primary objective of these plans, which were proposed by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, was to counter the Soviet Union’s potential threat to Western Europe after the defeat of Nazi ...
1 day ago · The proposed plan aims to utilize existing infrastructure, establishing a passenger line from Newark or Wilmington in the north, through Dover, and potentially extending to either Salisbury or Berlin.
2 days ago · This map is included in Wilbur H. Siebert’s 1898 book The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom. The inset at upper left shows routes and stations in SE PA. Notes the density of routes at the western side of of Pennsylvania. A digital copy of Siebert’s map is available here.
2 days ago · Route choice modelling is a critical aspect of analysing urban rail transit (URT) networks and provides a foundation for URT planning and operation. Unlike in a free-flow road network, the consideration set for route choice decisions in a URT network does not depend purely on the physical connectivity of the network and decision makers’characteristics. Instead, it is also contingent on the ...
3 days ago · State planning for high-speed railway began in the early 1990s, and the country's first high-speed rail line, the Qinhuangdao–Shenyang Passenger Railway, was built in 1999 and opened to commercial operation in 2003. This line could accommodate commercial trains running at up to 200 km/h (120 mph).
4 days ago · High-speed rail could significantly reduce travel times between major cities like Philadelphia, New York, and Washington, D.C., making it an attractive alternative to flying or driving. Although high-speed rail is still in the planning stages, its potential impact on Pennsylvania’s economy and transportation network could be significant. 3.
3 days ago · As German states ceased to be a military crossroads, however, the roads improved; the length of hard–surfaced roads in Prussia increased from 3,800 kilometers (2,400 mi) in 1816 to 16,600 kilometers (10,300 mi) in 1852, helped in part by the invention of macadam.
