Images Dated 15th September 2015

The coffin of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, at Vienna Railway Station. January 30th 1889

The coffin of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, at Vienna Railway Station.
January 30th 1889, found in a hunting lodge at Meyerling, the bodies of the Rodolphe archduke, heir to the Austrian imperial crown, and his mistress, the young person baronne Marie Vetsera. This drama gave place to various assumptions, but the version most usually allowed remains that of double suicide

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Chat Moss threatened the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, until

Chat Moss threatened the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, until George Stephenson succeeded in constructing a railway line through it in 1829; his solution was to "float" the line on a bed of bound heather and branches topped with tar and covered with rubble stone.
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (LMR) was the world's first twin-track inter-urban passenger railway in which all the trains were timetabled and ticketed. Trains were hauled by company steam locomotives between the two towns, though private waggons and carriages were allowed. The line opened on 15 September 1830 and ran between the towns of Liverpool and Manchester in North West England in the United Kingdom

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The Florida East Coast Railway extension to the island of Key West opened in 1912

The Florida East Coast Railway extension to the island of Key West opened in 1912
On the line which makes it possible to travel from New York to Havana withough changing carriages : a work train on Long Key viaduct - in the distance the Key West Express

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