The Wooden Wagonways of Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2017
Two hundred years before the first steam locomotive carrying passengers chugged out of the Heighington railway station in the English town o...
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London’s Mail Rail
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2017
For seventy-six years, starting from 1927, the London Post Office operated a fleet of driverless electric trains that scuttled around pairs ...
The World’s Quietest Train Stations
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2017
Some of the world’s busiest train stations are located in Japan. Indeed, as per statistics that surfaced in 2013, out of the top 51 train st...
The Deepest Metro Stations in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 6, 2017
The average metro train doesn’t go beyond a few stories underground. But sometimes the geology and the geography of the region, such as the ...
London Necropolis Railway: The Train For The Dead
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 6, 2017
It was a difficult time to be alive in 1848 London, and worse still to be dead. A cholera epidemic had just swept through the city killing n...
Tehachapi Loop
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2016
The Tehachapi Loop is an iconic spiral loop, 1.17 km long, that passes over itself as it gains height on the railroad main line through Teha...
Saudi Arabia’s Abandoned Hejaz Railway
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2016
The Hejaz railway that ran from Damascus to Medina, through the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, was one of the principal railroads of the Otto...
Subway Pushers of Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2016
The Japanese rail network is known throughout the world for its superiority and punctuality. In the capital city Tokyo, nearly 40 million pa...
Unusual Drawbridge Railway Crossing in Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2016
South of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia, are a number of drawbridge-like crossings that carry 2-feet tracks of the Sugar Cane Railway ...
Angels Flight: The World’s Shortest Railway
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2016
Angels Flight is a historic narrow gauge funicular railway located in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California. Dubbed t...
Salekhard–Igarka Railway: Stalin’s Railroad of Death
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 28, 2016
On the outskirts of Salekhard, the capital of the Yamal Nenets Autonomous Region, Russia, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, lies the disused...
The Haytor Granite Tramway
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2016
To the north of Haytor Rocks, on the eastern edge of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon, are the disused remains of an old granite quar...
The Devil’s Nose Railroad
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2016
When Ecuador President General Eloy Alfaro took office in 1895, and announced that a new railway line would be built connecting the coastal ...
Quincy Granite Railway: America’s First Commercial Railroad
Kaushik Patowary
May 18, 2016
When architect Solomon Willard arrived in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1825, and discovered a granite ledge in a wooded area, he knew he had fo...
The Merci Train: 49 Boxcars Filled With Gratitude
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2016
On February 3, 1949, a crowd of over 25,000 gathered at New York Harbor to see the arrival of a merchant ship named Magellan. On the side of...
Junction Valley Railroad: World’s Largest Quarter-Sized Railroad
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2016
The Junction Valley Railroad in Bridgeport, Michigan, United States, is a model railroad but not the tabletop variety we are familiar with....
The Story Behind Ukraine’s “Tunnel of Love”
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2016
Back in 2011, Amusing Planet posted pictures of a mysterious green tunnel of trees covering a section of railway tracks in Ukraine, known as...
Mooning of The Amtrak
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2016
For the last 36 years, the city of Laguna Niguel, California, has been host to a bizarre tradition called the Mooning of the Amtrak. Every y...
Martini Junction: A Miniature Railway Hidden in The Forest
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2016
In the small but densely wooded Needham town forest, outside Boston, lies a secret attraction — a miniature model railway consisting of 120 ...
The Children’s Railways of Soviet Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2015
In the outskirts of Budapest, through the scenic Buda hills, run a short, narrow-gauge railway line called Gyermekvasút, which is Hungarian ...
