It is the hub of a system of narrow-gauge railways transporting the cotton, dates, vegetables, and cereals of the region's agricultural hinterland.
Calthrop proposed a system of narrow gauge railways linking the two cities, running along streets directly serving factories.
This job overlapped with that of president of the New Orleans and Carrollton Street Railway (1866 1876), where he invented a system of cable-powered street railway cars.
In 1834, the Main Line of Public Works opened as a system of canals, railroads and cable railways across Pennsylvania to compete with the Erie Canal in New York.
Rapid transit, system of railways, usually electric, that is used for local transit in a metropolitan area.
Light rail transit, system of railways usually powered by overhead electrical wires and used for medium-capacity local transportation in metropolitan areas.
In 1844 he introduced a system of pneumatic propulsion on the South Devon Railway, but the experiment was a failure.
CVRD also owns one of the largest systems of railways and ports in Brazil, as well as an international shipping line, Docenave.
The proposed steps include the definition of the requirements for the on-board GNSS systems, the description of a system to qualify railway lines in regards to GNSS application, and the performance of larger test campaigns [55].
So a principal beneficiary of our system of privatised railways (one of Branson's colleagues let slip that the West Coast franchise was "a licence to print money") may have brought about its undoing.
