Japan might be considered the pioneer of modern high-speed railways.

On the modern railway, these historical markers are still used as infrastructure reference points.

The people in charge of the new and modern railway wanted passengers to have a good feeling about the station.

(The standard gauge adopted by modern railways is 4 feet 8.5 inches).

It was the first modern railway in the world, and carried coal from the mines to the seaports.

On most modern railways, colour light signals have largely replaced mechanical ones.

It lay above the Via Popilia, which followed the line taken by the modern railway.

Today all that can be seen is an overgrown forbidden wasteland with the modern railway running through the middle on a pair of lines.

The upper and middle classes were fleeing from the working class residents of London; the modern railway allowed it.

They were, however, the forerunners of the modern railway.