Ideas and named phenomena specific to how rail systems are built, financed, operated or contracted, from track gauge to network-shrinking policy episodes. Belongs here: standard gauge and break of gauge, piggyback transport, and named policy episodes such as the Beeching Cuts. Does not belong here: concepts that apply to transit systems generally regardless of mode, such as headway, grouped under transit and systems operations concepts.
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1. Wikipedia: Rail transport
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The first passenger railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opened in 1825.
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