Machine generated contents note: 1804-1838: The Iron Horse -- Pioneer: Richard Trevithick -- A British Invention -- Profile: Rocket -- The Liverpool & Manchester Railway -- Steam for Home and Export -- Pioneers: The Stephensons -- World Pioneers -- Railroad Expansion -- 1839-1869: Building Nations -- The US Forges Ahead -- Profile: Thatcher Perkins -- Building Great Railroads: Union Pacific -- Britain Advances -- Euro Progress -- Pioneer: Isambard Kingdom Brunei -- The GWR's Broad Gauge -- Mass Movers -- Building the Tube -- Nations and Colonies -- 1870-1894: A World Of Steam -- 19th-century Racers -- London Locals -- End of the Great Western Broad Gauge -- Profile: C&PA Snow Plow -- Delivering to America -- Building Great Railroads: Canadian Pacific -- Specialty Steam -- Profile: Merddin Emrys -- Shrinking the World -- Profile: DHR B Class No. 19 -- The First Electric Passenger Train -- 1895-1913: Golden Age -- Express Steam for the UK -- British Evolution --

Contents note continued: Profile: GWR Auto Trailer No. 92 -- Continental Glamour -- Pioneer: Fulgence Bienvenue -- Profile: H&BT Caboose No. 16 -- Rapid Development -- Profile: VGN Class SA No. 4 -- The New York Elevated Railway -- On Other Gauges -- Building Great Railroads: Trans-Siberian Railway -- Competition From the New Electrics -- 1914-1939: Steam's Zenith -- Locomotives for World War I -- War Machines -- Fast and Powerful -- Profile: King Edward II -- Great Journeys: Orient Express -- Mixed-Traffic Movers -- Versatile Engines -- Freight Shifters -- Pioneer: Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley -- Streamlined Steam Around Europe -- Profile: Mallard -- The Age of Speed and Style -- Diesel and Electric Streamliners -- Practical Diesels and Electrics -- Profile: Reading MU No. 800 -- 1940-1959: War And Peace -- World War II Logistics -- Profile: DR No. 52.8184-5 -- Wartime Service -- The US Moves into Diesel -- Postwar US -- Profile: N&W GP9 Class No. 521 -- Britain Makes the Change --

Contents note continued: Profile: Deltic Prototype -- Europe Follows the US -- Great Journeys: The Blue Train -- Electric Charge -- Postwar Steam -- Profile: N&W J Class No. 611 -- World Steam's Last Stand -- Profile: Class WP No. 7161 -- Europe's Last Gasp -- Profile: Beyer-Garratt No. 138 -- Moving People and Goods -- 1960-1979: Built For Speed -- Freight and Passenger Accelerates -- Profile: Modified DR V100 -- High-speed Pioneers -- The Bullet Train -- Profile: DR No. 18.201 -- Technology in Transition -- Great Journeys: Indian Pacific -- Traveling in Style -- 1980-1999: Changing Tracks -- High Speed Goes Global -- Building Great Railroads: Eurostar -- Diesel's Next Generation -- A New Wave of Electrics -- Profile: Palace on Wheels -- Urban Rail Solutions -- After 2000: Rail Revival -- Universal Applications -- Historic Railways -- Profile: Clan Line & Belmond British Pullman -- High Speed---The New Generation -- Spectacular Stations -- Faster and Faster --

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Dubai Metro

Into the Future

How Railways Work: Engines And Tracks

How Tracks Work

How Wheels Work

How Signals Work

Radstock North Signal Tower

How Steam Locomotives Work

How Diesel Locomotives Work

How Electric Locomotives Work.