Dubai gets rail: Palm Monorail

Details updated by Neo.
Nakheel’s $590 million (Dh2.1 billion) Palm Monorail, which opened on Wednesday, will be connected to Dubai Metro’s Tecom Station, XPRESS has learnt.

Marwan Al Qamzi, Executive Director of Nakheel Southern Projects, said the new leg of the monorail project will extend by 2.1 kilometres. At a projected construction cost of $80 million (Dh294 million) per kilometre, the monorail addition will cost a little more than $160 million (Dh589 million) and give The Palm Jumeirah residents and Atlantis Hotel guests a direct link to the Dubai Metro which opens in September.
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Short Rail Fanning at Colombo

Today purposefully i have not taken my Motor Bike for customer visit. and went by bus to reach my customer, once i finished my work i just start walk towards Ratmalana Railway Station, which is the 8th stop from Colombo fort towards Galle (south)
reached station at 1700hrs bought the ticket which cost Sri Lankan rupee 15.00/- (Rs 6.25 Indian rupee) to reach Colombo fort, after that i took some snaps in station.
at 1732hrs my train arrived on coastal side. I start my journey at 1734hrs, i have taken few snaps in running train. the fast of the train was some what ok around 60KM/Hrs. in all the station i felt a bad jerk with a huge voice while applying the break and moving out from station. it was a thrilling experience traveling on coastal line.
click the photo to view more Colombo RF snaps.

TRAINS IN INDIA

1853
The customary answer to this question is 3:35pm on April 16th, 1853, when a train with 14 railway carriages and 400 guests left Bombay's Bori Bunder for Thane, with a 21-gun salute. It was hauled by three locomotives: Sindh, Sultan, and Sahib. The journey took an hour and fifteen minutes.
1854
On August 15th, the first passenger train in the eastern section is operated, from Howrah to Hoogly (24 miles). The section is soon extended to Pundooah. Howrah station at the time is simply a tin shed with a small booking office, and a single narrow platform.
1856
May 28: Royapuram - Wallajah Road line constructed by the Madras Railway Company Jul 1: The first train service in the south begins, from Royapuram / Veyasarapady (Madras) to Wallajah Road (Arcot) (approx. 100km) by the Madras Railway Company.
1864
Jolarpettai - Bangalore Cantt. branch added by Madras Railway; Bangalore Mail begins running.

for more details check www.irfca.org/faq/faq-hist.html

TRAIN HISTORY

Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 - 22 April 1833) a British inventor, built the first full-scale working railway Steam Locomotive. On 21 February 1804 the world's first railway journey took place as Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Pennydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydvil in Wales, Great Britain.

George Stephenson (9 June 1781 - 12 August 1848) a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives and is known as the "Father of Railways".

Trevithick invented the first train, Stephenson the first public railway line.

WHEELS ON TRACK

My First "WHEELS ON TRACK" Travel experience,


when i was 14years old(1991), i did my first train travel (MG line) from Chamarajnagar to Mysore (60KM), i traveled alone.
for which i traveled 45km extra to catch the train in Chamarajnagar as my native (Kollegal) not connected with the train.
that was the Steam loco. i still remember on the loco it was mentioned TATA.
i asked the driver for a piece of Charcoal. i kept that coal very safely for almost 5 years later dont know where it missed :-(
and my travel experience was excellent, i feared a lot to stand near the door, as the train was shaking a lot. after 2hrs journey i reached Mysore Junction, and i requested the Ticket collector in the gate, that i need this ticket for my remembrance as this is my first train travel. the Ticket collector smile at me and said OK.
in that way i finished my first Wheels on Track travel successfully.



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Hi, today i started this blog, this blog consist details of train & Bus, and my travel experience.
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