Transport infrastructure consists of fixed installations, including roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, and pipelines, as well as terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (including fuel docks and fuel stations), and seaports. Terminals may be used both for the interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance.
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Image 4Milan Metro is the largest rapid transit system in Italy in terms of length, number of stations and ridership; and the eighth longest in Europe. (from Rail transport)
Image 6Bardon Hill box in England (seen here in 2009) is a Midland Railway box dating from 1899, although electrical switches have replaced the original mechanical lever frame. (from Rail transport)
Image 7Swiss & German co-production: world's first functional diesel–electric railcar 1914 (from Rail transport)
Image 9Tunnels, such as the Tampere Tunnel, allow traffic to pass underground or through rock formations. (from Transport)
Image 10German soldiers in a railway car on the way to the front in August 1914. The message on the car reads Von München über Metz nach Paris ("From Munich via Metz to Paris"). (from Rail transport)
Image 30Inauguration of the electric tram in Saint Petersburg in 1907. By the early 1900s, most street railways were electrified. (from Rail transport)
Image 310-Series Shinkansen, introduced in 1964 in Japan, started the high-speed rail boom. (from Rail transport)
Image 32Elephant transporting a person and some cargo on a highway between Delhi and Jaipur, India (from Transport)
Image 33A prototype of a Ganz AC electric locomotive in Valtellina, Italy, 1901 (from Rail transport)
Image 34An ambulance from World War I (from Transport)
Image 36A cast iron fishbelly edge rail manufactured by Outram at the Butterley Company for the Cromford and High Peak Railway in 1831; these are smooth edge rails for wheels with flanges. (from Rail transport)
Image 37A 16th-century mine-cart, an early example of un-powered rail transport, used man power to operate. (from Rail transport)
Ukrainian forces sink a Rosatom-owned container ship in the Black Sea, forcing its 17-member crew to abandon it. Rosatom says it had been transporting civilian goods, including frozen food and construction materials. (BBC News)