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Abraham Fitzgibbon

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Abraham 'Abram' Fitzgibbon (23 January 1823 – 4 April 1887) was an Irish-born railroad engineer and a pioneer for narrow-gauge railways. [1]

26 relations: Barsi Light Railway, Brisbane, Bushey, Carl Abraham Pihl, Chalmers University of Technology, Darling Downs Gazette, Decauville, Dun Mountain Railway, Everard Calthrop, Fairlie locomotive, Ffestiniog Railway, Fitzgibbon, Queensland, Namaqualand Railway, Narrow-gauge railway, Paul Decauville, Queensland, Queensland Rail, Rail transport in Norway, Robert Francis Fairlie, The Courier-Mail, The Morning Bulletin, The Queenslander, Thomas Hall (railway engineer), Toronto and Nipissing Railway, Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway, 3 ft 6 in gauge railways.

Barsi Light Railway

Barsi Light Railway (BLR) was a long, narrow-gauge railway between Miraj and Latur in the state of Maharashtra in India.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Bushey

Bushey is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England.

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Carl Abraham Pihl

Carl Abraham Pihl (16 January 1825 – 14 September 1897) was a Norwegian civil engineer and director of the Norwegian State Railways (NSB) from 1865 until his death.

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Chalmers University of Technology

Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers tekniska högskola, often shortened to Chalmers) is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that focuses on research and education in technology, natural science, architecture, maritime and other management areas.

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Darling Downs Gazette

The Darling Downs Gazette was a newspaper published from 1848 to 1922 in Drayton and Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia.

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Decauville

Decauville was a manufacturing company was founded by Paul Decauville (1846–1922), a French pioneer in industrial railways.

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Dun Mountain Railway

The Dun Mountain Railway was a privately owned and operated narrow gauge, long horse-drawn tramway from chromite mines in the vicinity of Duppa Lode on the eastern slopes of Wooded Peak to Nelson port in the Tasman District of New Zealand's South Island.

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Everard Calthrop

Everard Richard Calthrop (3 March 1857 – 30 March 1927) was a British railway engineer and inventor.

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Fairlie locomotive

A Fairlie is a type of articulated steam locomotive that has the driving wheels on bogies.

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Ffestiniog Railway

The Ffestiniog Railway (Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Fitzgibbon, Queensland

Fitzgibbon is a suburb north of the Brisbane central business district in Queensland, Australia.

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Namaqualand Railway

The Namaqualand Railway was a narrow gauge railway operating between Port Nolloth and O'okiep in the Namaqualand region of the former Cape Colony in South Africa.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.

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Paul Decauville

Paul Decauville (1846–1922) was a French engineer and businessman.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Queensland Rail

Queensland Rail, also known as QR, is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia.

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Rail transport in Norway

The Norwegian railway system comprises 4,087 km of (standard gauge) track of which 2,622 km is electrified and 242 km double track.

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Robert Francis Fairlie

Robert Francis Fairlie (born either March 1831 or 5 April 1830, in Glasgow, died 31 July 1885, in London) was a Scottish-born railway engineer.

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The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia.

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The Morning Bulletin

The Morning Bulletin is a daily newspaper servicing the city of Rockhampton and the surrounding areas of Central Queensland, Australia.

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The Queenslander

The Queenslander was the weekly summary and literary edition of the 'Brisbane Courier' (now The Courier-Mail), since the 1850s the leading journal in the colony and later federal state of Queensland, Australia.

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Thomas Hall (railway engineer)

Richard Thomas Hall, born 31 May 1823, was a British railway engineer.

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Toronto and Nipissing Railway

The Toronto and Nipissing Railway, T&N, was the first public narrow-gauge railway in North America.

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Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway

The Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway was chartered in 1868 to build a narrow-gauge railway from Toronto to Grey and Bruce Counties in Ontario, Canada.

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3 ft 6 in gauge railways

Railways with a track gauge of were first constructed as horse-drawn wagonways.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Fitzgibbon

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