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Trans-Siberian Railway Transsibirskaya Magistral; [trənsʲsʲɪˈbʲirskəjə məgʲɪˈstralʲ]) is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan. With a length of 9,289 km (5,772 mi), it is the longest railway line in the world. There are connecting branch lines into Mongolia, China and North Korea. It has connected Moscow with Vladivostok since 1916, and is still being expanded.
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All aboard the worldâs longest railway! Everyone loves a train journey, but the longest railway journey in the world might just be the most unromantic one, too. It would be snide to call it the Plastic Tat Track, but the new route connecting eastern China with Spain is hardly a civilisation-changing Silk Road.
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The Longest Bridges In The World Ten thousand contractors took four years to complete the construction, and they finished in 2010; the railway began operation in 2011. In the same year, this bridge made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. The second longest bridge in the world is also a railway bridge, however, located in Taiwan. The Changhua-Kaohsiung measures 97.8 miles long. It comprises a portion of Taiwan’s high-speed railway system which runs along the west coast of the island.
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The worldâs longest metro and subway systems The 317.5km long Moscow Metro is the sixth longest subway system in the world. It is mostly underground, and serves the city of Moscow and the neighbouring towns Krasnogorsk and Reutov. State-owned enterprise Moskovsky Metropoliten owns and operates the metro system.
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Kinzua Bridge: Once the Worldâs Longest Railroad Bridge, Destroyed by Tornado Kinzua Bridge: Once the World’s Longest Railroad Bridge, Destroyed by Tornado. 20 July 2013. When it was built in 1882 the builders of the Kinzua Aqueduct Bridge boasted that it was the Eighth Wonder of the World. Their hyperbole had some merit: at just over 300 feet it was the tallest railroad bridge on the planet and remained so for a number of years. Then, in 2003, to Pennsylvania came a tornado….
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The Longest Railway Tunnels In The World Channel Tunnel. The Channel Tunnel is a 31-mile railway tunnel located in the English Channel. The Channel Tunnel is the second-longest underwater railway tunnel in the world, after the Japanese Seikan Tunnel. The tunnel reaches depths of 790 feet below sea level.
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World's longest train tunnel beneath the Alps is completed linking Switzerland and Italy Railway tracks are seen in the NEAT Gotthard Base tunnel near Amsteg REUTERS/Ruben Sprich. The world's longest train tunnel between Switzerland and Italy has been completed and will go into service next June (2016).
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The worldâs longest metro and subway systems The metro network is planned to be expanded up to a length of 877km with 22 lines. The annual ridership of the metro in 2012 was 2.276 billion. Beijing Subway, China. Beijing Subway, China’s oldest metro system, currently ranks as the world’s third longest subway system comprising of 17 operatinglines spanning a total length of 456km.
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- Eurostar Train. Amazing Chunnel Facts, Amazing Chunnel Tracks. The Channel Tunnel is a rail tunnel linking London and Paris beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. At its lowest point, it is 250 feet deep and at 23.5 miles long, the tunnel has the longest undersea portion of any in the world. That’s only the beginning of the impressive Chunnel facts.
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Longest Train Station Name - Guinness World Records on Waymarking.com 30U E 419268 N 5897519. Quick Description: The railway station with the longest name in the world. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch railway station which runs on the North Wales Line from London’s Euston station to Holyhead on the isle of Anglesey. Location: United Kingdom. Date Posted: 2/15/2008 1:29:56 AM.
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- 1.1 The Eurostar The Eurostar, found in Europe, is the only high speed rail for that area. Its construction began in 1987 with the digging on the channel tunnel and ended in 1994. The Channel Tunnel was funded by a different group of financiers and cost them approximately $13 billion.his railway stretches from London to Paris and London to Brussels with stops in between. The railway is approximately 124 miles long, 31 of those miles being underground through the Channel Tunnel [1]. The Eurostar was built to provide an affordable means to get from place to place in a timely fashion.
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10 Best Subway Systems in the World The Moscow Metro is also one of the longest subway systems in the world as well as one of the busiest, and it has 14 lines that cross the city. Riding this subway is a must-do activity in Moscow, for sightseeing within the system as well as for transportation purposes. The stations and tunnels are just that cool.
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Five of the Fastest Trains in the World TGV POS — France • Top Speed: 357 mph • Rail type: Conventional Wheel. The TGV POS is the record-setting crown jewel in the fleet of France's Train à Grande Vitesse, a network of rail lines owned and operated by the French national railway corporation, SNCF.
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- Seoul subway is the longest subway system in the world. Shanghai Metro, the second longest metro system in the world, has been operational since 1993. Beijing Subway is the oldest metro system in China and the third longest in the world.
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- Tianjin Grand Bridge. Table of contents for Longest Bridges. The second bridge on the list is another bridge built in China and comes in at a whopping 70.6 miles or 113.7 kilometers which at the moment also makes it the second largest bridge in the world. The Tianjin Grand Bridge is another railway viaduct bridge. This long bridge connects Langfang and Qingxian on another high speed railway, the length of the bridge in feet is 373,000 and in meters 113,700. This bridge has small suspended portions with the remaining long portions being regular beam bridges.
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World's longest train tunnel beneath the Alps is completed linking Switzerland and Italy Currently the world's longest tunnel is Japan's Seikan tunnel which links the main island of Honshu with Hokkaido and is 33 miles (53km) in length, closely beating the Channel Tunnel which is 31 miles (49km) long.
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Japanese maglev train begins public testing, buzzes peaceful countryside at 313 mph Japanese maglev train begins public testing, buzzes peaceful countryside at 313 mph. The longest, largest, and fastest maglev train in the world, situated at the Yamanashi test track in Japan, has restarted public testing. The test track has recently been extended to 42.8 kilometers (26.5 miles), allowing for a five-car prototype train to be routinely pulled at speeds of over 500 kph (310 mph).
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Switzerland Celebrates World's Longest Rail Tunnel Pride and euphoria swept through Switzerland last week when a gargantuan drilling machine emerged through the rocks deep under the Alps to join the two ends of the world's longest railroad tunnel.
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- The Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct is the world's longest concrete railroad bridge. Built for the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad in 1912, the span rises 300 feet above its deepest foundation pit and is 2,375 feet long.
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Gotthard Road Tunnel The Seikan Tunnel in Japan and the Channel Tunnel between the United Kingdom and France are both in excess of 50 km (31 mi). Under construction since 2002 and projected open in late 2016, the Gotthard Base Tunnel (a second rail tunnel, 57 km long), will be the world's longest.
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The Longest Tunnel in the World At 57 km (35.4 miles), the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland now holds the title for longest tunnel in the world (used only by trains), and last September, I rode through the Seikan Tunnel in Japan, which is the longest undersea tunnel in the world.
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- In the same year, this bridge made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. The second longest bridge in the world is also a railway bridge, however, located in Taiwan. The Changhua-Kaohsiung measures 97.8 miles long.
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The World's Longest Railway Is Stalled In Madrid Also called Yixinou, the route surpasses the world's second- and third-longest routes, the Trans-Siberian railway (5,772 miles) and the Moscow-to-Beijing (4,340 miles) train. Journalists near the first cargo train Yixinou from China's Yiwu to the Spanish capital Madrid, on Nov. 18.
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Gotthard Road Tunnel Under construction since 2002 and opened on 1 June 2016, the Gotthard Base Tunnel (a second rail tunnel, 57 km [35 mi] long), is the world's longest. It was built for the use of trains travelling from northern Switzerland to the Ticino area and beyond.