for loans from the Ministry of Finance were rejected. Soon afterwards he died by falling under a train at St Petersburg. It is disputed whether he committed suicide or was assassinated to take his wealth

(the SNCF) between the early 1950s and the first stages of work on the TGV (Tres Grande Vitesse) trains in the late 1960s. He designed most of the diesel and electric locomotives built for the SNCF in

pic activities included establishing a kindergarten and a hospice at Padua and giving a hospital train to the Italian army. He was passionate about horse racing and built a racecourse next to his home

was chiefly notable for building what is generally recognised as the first multiple unit passenger train (Triebwagenzug) to run on a European railway. Čžjžek was involved in banking, having been a founder

granite pillars remaining. In Budapest Eiffel was responsible for the construction of the 146 m X 42 m train shed of the West (Nyugati Palyaudvar) railway station in 1874-7, although the architectural details

In 1854 he had a key role in founding the Institute of Technology – now known as ETH Zürich – to train people in the skills necessary for railway building and industrial development. The north-south link

Livorno in Tuscany. However, he became more interested in architecture there and he moved to Rome to train for three years as an architect before moving back to Switzerland to practice. When he saw the country’s

license. After the Second World War the Fokker company was successful with the S-14 military jet trainer, and with two airliners designed for secondary routes, the turbo-prop F-27 Friendship and the jet

any individual engineer to the development of the steam locomotive, the principal means of moving trains on Europe`s railways between the 1830s and the 1960s. He was born at Sydenham in south London. His

and the famous École nationale des ponts et chaussées, which was established by the French state to train engineers and develop the national infrastructure. At the end of his studies he went to England to

introduction of second class on some trains. The new timetable introduced in West Germany in 1979 offered many services that were the equal of TEE trains, as did the TGV trains that began to run in France in [...] caused to it during the Second World War and in Europe as the inspiration behind the system of fast trains that showed the potential of railways for linking together the continent’s principal cities. Den [...] Luxembourg and Spain. There were also formal links with the Austrian and Danish systems. The first TEE trains were diesel multiple units built in Amsterdam by Werkspoor which used two 1000 hp engines, with 350

World War. He was born at Tuchola near Bydgoszcz in Poland, the son of a farmer, and expected to train as a carpenter, but at the age of about seventeen was conscripted as a slave labourer by the German

services, and in particular to attract the custom of British travellers bound for India and going by train to Brindisi in southern Italy from where they continued by steamer. His plans were frustrated by the [...] Cologne and from Vienna to Munich, and the following year gained favourable publicity by providing trains to take Parisians to the International Exhibition in Vienna. Lack of capital forced him into partnership [...] the Great Northern Railway in 1874, and ran a company called Mann Boudoir Sleeping Cars operating trains in Germany, Belgium, France and the Habsburg Empire. Nagelmackers became general manager of the joint

Later, he would consult on London's Metropolitan Railway, helping introduce electric underground trains and influencing the choice of electric locomotives for above-ground services. Parker built an electric

Pegler gained a pilot’s licence while still at school, and used a light aircraft to chase express trains along the East Coast Main Line. He joined the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, although [...] in 1924. When it was threatened with scrapping in 1962 he bought it and used it to haul excursion trains on main lines. Such excursions were prohibited after British Rail ceased to use steam locomotives [...] embarked on a government-backed tour of the United States intended to promote British business. The train progressed from coast to coast but completed the tour in San Francisco in 1971 with a burden of debts

first escalators, for scientifically-designed bifurcation signs directing pedestrians alighting from trains, escalators or staircases, for freestanding seats bearing station names, and station signs on platform [...] the latter retaining many detailed features. Pick`s last major task was the organisation of the trains which evacuated children from London to the provinces at the outbreak of the Second World War. He

family of linen weavers. When he was 21 he went to Lyon, the centre of the French silk trade, to train as a weaver using the relatively new Jacquard looms that enabled complex patterns to be woven easily

in the English midlands and owned collieries and lime works. He supported mechanics institutes to train young people and in 1847, the year before his death, he founded the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

1850. Stephenson’s innovative box-truss of wrought-iron plates formed a 460m-long tube through which trains passed with. The two main spans were each 140m and gave a clearance of 31m over the navigation channel

government backing in 1837. The first section of the line (from Nîmes to Beaucaire) opened in 1839. The train travelled 28 km in 32 minutes, using steam locomotives from Newcastle and French-built carriages.