This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1947. January 1 – The Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses is reconstituted...

The 1947 Kamoke train massacre was an attack on a refugee train and subsequent massacre of Hindu and Sikh refugees by a Muslim mob at Kamoke, Pakistan...

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1946. January 1 – The Lichfield rail crash in England kills 20 people. January 18...

The Transport Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 49) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Under the terms of the Act, the railway network, long-distance...

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1948. In 1948, 14 railroads in North America owned more than 1,000 steam locomotives...

million of these refugees moved in 673 refugee trains over a period of three months between August and November 1947. A train carrying a total 2,400 Hindu...

1830 History of rail transport in Great Britain 1830–1922 History of rail transport in Great Britain 1923–1947 History of rail transport in Great Britain...

during the Partition of India was carried out at Amritsar in Indian Punjab on 22 September 1947. Three thousand Muslim refugees were killed and a further...

completed between the two termini. Before 1947, Albania was the only country in Europe not to have a standard rail service, although some narrow (Decauville)...

Rail transport in South Africa is an important element of the country's transport infrastructure. All major cities are connected by rail, and South Africa's...

Rail transport in Israel includes heavy rail (inter-city, commuter, and freight rail) as well as light rail. Excluding light rail, the network consists...

Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). The Pennsylvania Railroad manufactured three prototypes in the 1930s and a full fleet of sixty cars in 1947–1949. They were...

Rail transport in Pakistan began in 1855 during the British Raj, when several railway companies began laying track and operating in present-day Pakistan...

This list of countries by rail transport network size based on length of rail lines. For the purposes of this page, railway has been defined as a fixed...

The rail transport system in Denmark consists of 2,633 km of railway lines, of which the Copenhagen S-train network, the main line Helsingør-Copenhagen-Padborg...

Rail transport in Singapore mainly consists of a passenger urban rail transit system spanning the entire city-state: a rapid transit system collectively...

express railway. Rail transport remains relatively underused as a mode of transport in Vietnam. While road transport dominates the transport sector by far—accounting...

Rail transport in India consists of primarily of passenger and freight shipments along an integrated rail network. Indian Railways (IR), a statutory body...

until 31 December 1947. The growth in road transport during the 1920s and 1930s greatly reduced revenue for the rail companies. Rail companies accused...

The history of rail transport in Great Britain 1923–1947 covers the period when the British railway system was run by the Big Four group of companies...

The Soviet Union was heavily dependent on rail transport, not least during the Russian Civil War and World War II, but also for industrialization according...

This is a list of some periodicals related to rail transport (or rail transportation). Le Rail Maghreb Railways Africa ISSN 1029-2756 Australian Model...

Rail transport in Saudi Arabia is an expanding mode of transport. Saudi Arabia Railways is the national railway operator. The Saudi Railways Organization...

accelerated greatly due to the need for the transport of agricultural products and cattle in Buenos Aires Province. The rail network converged on the city of Buenos...

The history of rail transport in Albania may have begun as early as 1890. Until the end of World War II, Albania's railways were all narrow gauge lines...

Rail transport in Greece has a history which began in 1869, with the completion of the then Athens & Piraeus Railway. From the 1880s to the 1920s, the...

rail mass-produced was 155 pounds per yard (77 kg/m) and was rolled for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The rails used in rail transport are produced in sections...

from 330,000 stems in 1880 to 24 million stems in 1930; then a decline in the industry ended rail transport of bananas by 1969. In 1895 Jamaica had exported...

Rail transportation in the Philippines is currently used mostly to transport passengers within Metro Manila and provinces of Laguna and Quezon, as well...

Rail transport in Staffordshire has a long history. Stafford itself is a major "crossroads" on the West Coast Main Line, handling passenger and freight...