The #SwissNorthernRailway, also known as Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn (lit. Spanish bun railway, named after a local #pastery) was the first railway line in #Switzerland. It opened in 1847 and connected the cities #Zurich and #Baden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Northern_Railway
Photo credit: Locomotive of the Swiss Northern Railway. Unknown photographer/Public Domain. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lokomotive_Rhein_1867.jpg
#RailwaySunday #railway #economy #history #Europe #food #transport
Marketplace of Brühl with steam train of the Cologne-Bonn RR, about 1900.
Photo credit: unknown photographer/Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruehl_Feuriger_Elias.jpg
#RailwaySunday #steam #tram #train #railway #Cologne #Bonn #Germany #urban #transport
#OpenRailRouting is a neat tool that allows you to find a #route by #rail: https://routing.openrailrouting.org/maps/
It does not, however, access schedules to give you actual, real-world connections, but simply finds a route on rail between two ore more points, and lets you download it as a GPX file or share it as a link. It can be useful to visualise your holiday travel plans, or simply to play around.
#RailwaySunday #OpenStreetMap #OpenData #FreeSoftware #railways #maps #routing #travel
The longest #rail #transport network in the #world is found in the #US with a total length of 220,044 km (2019). Less than 1% is electrified.
At its peak in 1917 it used to be 428,180 km long. In a century, it shrank to half of its former size, but still remains the largest of its kind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_transport_network_size
#RailwaySunday #USA #America #NorthAmerica #infrastructure #railway #train
⚡️Ukraine proposes extending truce beyond Easter Sunday.
"Thirty hours is enough for headlines, but not for real confidence-building measures," President Volodymyr Zelensky said. "Thirty days can give peace a chance."
🔗 https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-proposes-extending-truce-beyond-easter-sunday/
❗️🇲🇩 Russia wants to replace Moldova’s leadership with pro-Kremlin puppets and use the country against Ukraine, warns President Maia Sandu. She emphasized that Ukraine remains Moldova’s shield — and Chișinău has a moral duty to stay out of Putin’s war.
As long as #Hezbollah remains an active force in the region, #Israel 🇮🇱 will see no need to exit southern #Lebanon 🇱🇧 (& will face no significant pressure to withdraw).
👉🏾 Lebanon’s 🇱🇧 president says he seeks to disarm Hezbollah this year https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/middleeast/lebanons-president-says-he-seeks-to-disarm-hezbollah-this-year-intl/index.html
#NationalRailways of #Zimbabwe 15A class 4-6-4+4-6-4 'Garratt' no. 407 Ukhozi ('Eagle', built by #BeyerPeacock in 1950) positioned with a train on the #VictoriaFalls bridge, Zimbabwe.
Photo credit: MaltaGC/CC BY-SA 4.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0845_VictoriaFallsZimbabwe_19920803.jpg
#RailwaySunday #train #railway #steam #Africa #technology #nature #engineering #tourism #NRZ
Studie: Menschen arbeiten trotz Grundeinkommens nicht weniger
1.200 Euro monatlich - ohne Bedingungen. Das erhielten Teilnehmer einer deutschlandweiten Studie. Sie zeigt: Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen führt nicht zu weniger Arbeit, sondern zu mehr Weiterbildung und Wohlbefinden.
Is Russia recruiting migrants to carry out attacks on European soil? Germany may have uncovered a ‘smoking gun’.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/08/is-russia-recruiting-migrant-attackers/
The #RiyadhMetro in #SaudiArabia is the world's longest driverless #train network. It is 176km long, has six lines and transports 1.2M passengers daily.
https://railway-news.com/yeltech-x-riyadh-metro-powering-the-worlds-longest-driverless-train-network/
Photo credit: Siemens Riyadh Metro Train (self driving) - innoTrans 2016. ubahnverleih/CC0 1.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riyadh_Metro_-_innoTrans_2016.jpg
#RailwaySunday #railway #RapidTransit #PublicTransport #Asia #Riyadh
According to #DiscoveryUK, the longest and heaviest #train ever rolling on our planet was a 682-car train powered by eight locomotives in #Australia. Its total length was 7,353 meters and the weight accumulated to 99,732.1 tons. The train transported iron ore for mining company #BHPBilliton (now #BHP).
https://www.discoveryuk.com/building-big/the-longest-trains-in-the-world-ever/
#RailwaySunday #railway #economy #technology #industry #mining
#PuffingBilly, an historic steam train still running regularly in the mountain district, was built to serve at the turn of the century. The #railway is the sole survivor of four experimental lines used to develop rural areas in the early 1900's.
#RailwaySunday #HeritageRailway #Australia #train #steam #tourism #technology #history
Image credit: Puffing Billy. Andy McLemore/CC BY-SA 2.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puffing_Billy_(3708462529).jpg
Here should be a list of nouns and adjectives that describes my personality and what I stand for.