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Tallinn-Rapla passenger train in Liiva railway station. Estonia, in 2009
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In rail transport, a train is a vehicle or (more frequently) a string of vehicles capable of being moved along a continuous line of rails or other guideway for the purpose of conveying freight or passengers between points on a predetermined route. The train may be hauled or propelled by one or more vehicles designed exclusively for that purpose (locomotives) or may be driven by a number of motors incorporated in all or several of the vehicles (multiple units).

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The platforms and tracks at Carl Berners plass station in 2007

Carl Berners plass is an underground rapid transit station located on the Grorud Line of the Oslo Metro, and a tram stop on the Sinsen Line of the Oslo Tramway. Located at Grünerløkka in Oslo, Norway, the area has a mixture of apartment buildings and small businesses. The station is the first metro station on the Grorud Line after it branches off from the shared Common Tunnel. North of the station, the Ring Line branches off from the Grorud Line. The station is served by lines 5 and 6 of the metro and Line 17 of the tramway, with eight and four hourly departures during regular hours. The tram operates every 10 minutes during regular hours. The square was taken into use as a tram stop on 1 February 1923. The station took the name after the square, which is again named for the 18th and early 19th-century politician Carl Berner. From 6 February 1949, Line 20 of the Oslo trolleybus started serving the square. From 2 January 1955, the Rodeløkka Line of the tramway was rerouted to run via Carl Berners plass, although it was closed again on 1961. The underground metro station opened on 16 October 1966, and the trolleybus service was replaced by diesel buses in 1968. From 20 August 2006, the metro station also started serving the Ring Line (Line 6).

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Congo-Ocean Railway in 1932

A passenger train stops at the Brazzaville station on the Congo-Ocean Railway in 1932. It has been estimated that 17,000 of the construction workers, who were mainly recruited from what is now southern Chad and the Central African Republic, died during the construction of the railway, which was completed in 1934

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  • Stratford International DLR station eastern entrance, soon after opening, across the road from the High Speed main line station
    August 31 – The London Docklands Light Railway is extended with 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Canning Town to Stratford International. This extension was started in October 2006 and cost £211m to complete. Including four new and three unconverted stations, the route will connect to the High Speed 1 and provide access to 2012 Summer Olympic venues. (Railway Gazette)
  • A map of China with Zhejiang highlighted in orange and Wenzhou city highlighted in red
    July 23 – Two high-speed trains collide on a viaduct in the suburbs of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, resulting in a derailment which killed 40 people and injured at least 210. The collision was the first fatal crash involving high-speed rail in China, and the second-deadliest HSR accident in history following the 1998 Eschede train disaster in Germany. (BBC News) (Xinhua)
  • A CRH 380A train leaving Shanghai in October 2010
    June 30 – The first regular revenue trains are operated on the newly constructed Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway in China. The new line, which opened a year ahead of schedule, reduces travel time over the 1,318-kilometre (819 mi) route to under five hours. Although ticket prices for the new rail service are much higher than existing services on parallel routes, airline companies serving the line's endpoints have reduced their ticket prices in response for trips between the two cities by as much as 65%. (Independent) (Wall Street Journal)
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    April 11 – Fourteen people are killed and more than a hundred injured after a bomb explodes in a Minsk Metro station in Minsk, Belarus. According to witnesses, the explosion happened just after a train entered the Oktyabrskaya station at about 1755 local time (1555 UTC). The explosion reportedly damaged the station, with a section of the ceiling having collapsed. (BBC)
  • Passengers being evacuated from a stopped JR East Saikyo line train stopped between Mejiro and Ikebukuro stations
    March 11 – A 9.0 MW megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan disrupts rail service throughout the country. All railway services were suspended in Tokyo, with an estimated 20,000 people stranded at major stations across the city. Various train services around Japan were also canceled, with JR East suspending all services for the rest of the day. Most railway service was resumed on March 12. See also: 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami (USGS) (JR East)
  • The facade of Brush Traction's building in 2003
    February 28Wabtec announces that it has acquired Brush Traction, the English-based locomotive builder and maintainer, for US$31 million. Brush Traction was originally founded in 1865 as Hughes's Locomotive & Tramway Engine Works Ltd; the company's recent production includes the class 92 electric locomotives operated by DB Schenker, Eurotunnel/Europorte 2 and SNCF, the EF class electric locomotives operated by New Zealand Railways and the Eurotunnel Class 9 electric locomotives. (Railway Gazette)
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