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As soon as you look at the airport and its surroundings on google maps that junction literally jumps at you. I have never been to Antalya, was looking for the line based on your description and yet I saw it immediately. And if that junction is not a clear indication of the presence of a railway...

Fair point, it was the rather massive triangular junction of the airport branch that immediately caught my eye ;)

You probably saw Antalya's T1 Light Rail Line that runs to the north of the airport (with a branch connecting to it) in the median of the D400 road. Don't know why you can't find it on google maps though, it is clearly visible there.

Schafbergbahn in Austria https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schafbergbahn#/media/Datei:Schafbergbahn_5099_railcars_at_Schafbergalpe.jpg

It actually is Germany's highest railway bridge ;)

Found a typo: "Embankmment" station near Charing Cross. Great map!

I have some info about that project in an obscure Word document on my hard drive, unfortunately I can't remember what webpage I originally copied it from: To enable express passenger trains and goods trains to bypass Newcastle station a plan was drawn up in 1918 for a new railway bridge across...

So what exactly are we talking about? No railway station at all? No passenger railway station? Station yes but no services provided? Does it count when the only services operating are heritage trains? Because if not, then my money is on Bogotá (population 7+ million, 10+ in the metropolitan...

Most of them (5 out of 6) were. As previously mentioned, N°87 is the exception, built by Cockerill in Belgium in 1937.

Pretty sure it is the goods branch from Aston station in Birmingham to the Windsor Street Goods Station, about a mile north of the centre of Birmingham. When Birmingham New Street - Walsall was electrified in 1966, so was the branch.

What do you mean it never happened? That is exactly how they build it. https://transport-photo.com/photo/9833/Ilyushin-Il-86-Boarding.html (from 11:20 to 11:40)

Lots of very diverse stuff. Railway lines closed to traffic but reactivated/maintained at the request of NATO (and paid for by them), like the Vennquerbahn or the Wutachtalbahn. Seemingly oversized bridges/overpasses on small rural roads that were actually designed for heavy military traffic...

It still could have been the line's purpose, but in case of war/crisis only. Never used for that during peacetime (and then basically superfluous/unnecessary, as you explained) but maintained for wartime use (when it might have been essential). We had a lot of infrastructure like that over here...

Thanks to everybody for the help! @ soccermad: That listing would be much appreciated! Take your time, I'm in no hurry ;-) Thanks for offering to inquire about the books but with your listing there is no urgent need for me to acquire them.

I am currently looking into the never-built sections/branch lines of the LD&ECR. Unfortunately, there is very few detailed information about them available online and the (apparently excellent) book from Zoe Hunter about the subject is unavailable to me. Does anybody have any information about...

Question: was that really the case? I know of the "Naval Specials" carrying personnel that ran to/from Thurso, but I was always under the impression that the famous "Jellicoe Specials" carrying the coal for the Grand Fleet never actually ventured that far north and instead ran to places like...

The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link is actually going to be a tunnel, not a bridge. Four-lane motorway + double track railway. The rail journey is expected to be cut down to 3h and 15 minutes.

Pretty sure that the company you remember was LeNord, the Ferrovie Nord Milano subsidiary that operated their passenger trains between 2004 and 2011. Trenord is the successor company, a FNM/Trenitalia joint venture, created from the merger of LeNord and Trenitalia's Lombardy division. Which...

Sounds interesting. Do you have any more information about it?

On the German side, definitely Aachen Hbf and Aachen West stations. All passenger trains serving Aachen call at the Hbf: regular Thalys/ICE services, additional IC trains on fridays/sundays, several RE/RB lines (including one each to Belgium and the Netherlands) and the trains of the Euregiobahn...