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On 17/08/2012 11:30, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 17/08/2012 11:15, wrote:
Occassionally the Daily Mail come up with some gems:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...times-day.html


This is a hardy perenial. Someone at the Wail is obviously bored.

I have seen videos of trains going through that market before. Are there
any other trains that go through such built up areas or something similar?

I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India, which
runs at street levels via some residential areas, for example.

Ahem ... India? Indiana maybe? Mind you nothing like what it once was
and they keep talking about rerouting out of the streets of Michigan City.

As for others, the Darjeeling runs alongside the road through towns which,
by their nature have markets along the roads. On a significantly lesser
scale there are still a couple of places in New Zealand where the railway
and road share a bridge. In Fort Collins, Colorado it was possible to see
full size BNSF freights running through the street; they've been relaying
the track and I'm not clear whether this has resulted in greater separation.
There's somewhere in Pennsylvania where it happens too. Switzerland has a
number of narrow (metre?) gauge lines that run through streets in much the
same way the US Interurbans (like the South Shore) used to. The Hershey
interurban on Cuba has street running in places.

It does depend on definition. I came across 2 lines in Japan, one in Tokyo
(Toden Arakawa line) and one in Kyoto (Randen) which use tram like cars but
run largely on private RoW but short sections of street running.