More closely watched as the storm approached were the region's commuter rail lines, including Metro-North, Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit.
Thanks to a decade-long renovation project overseen by Network Rail (2002-12) the Forth Bridge is now in the best condition it has ever been in.
Built 30ft above the streets, on a long -abandoned, elevated freight rail line, the public park is now double in size.
The MTA operates New York City's subway and bus system as well as an extensive regional transit network stretching into the suburbs, including the Metro-North and Long Island Rail Roads and the Staten Island Railway.
But both MTA railroads maintain comprehensive inspection programs on their tracks, according to the MTA. Every two weeks, workers visually inspect "every inch of track" on both Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road systems for defects, an MTA official said.
Transport Minister Norman Baker has promised to put pressure on Network Rail to make long-term improvements at Cowley Bridge.
Train companies are working with Network Rail on a long-term programme to continue improving services and to deliver better value for passengers and taxpayers alike.
The aim is to make journeys as seamless as possible and even join rail to the end of long-haul flights.
Long Island Rail Road is adding extra late-night trains to accommodate fans.
This will enable long-stalled projects to be built at last, such as a new east-west rail link (CrossRail) and an extension of the Docklands light railway to London's City Airport.
We travel for hours through broad plains of spinifex and red-earth anthills and see few other vehicles and no human settlements except, at the end of long rough dirt tracks, temporary Roy Hill rail-construction camps.
The unveiling took place in the final few seconds of the season 8 finale, as Milioti's yet-unnamed character simply walked up to a Long Island Rail Road ticket booth to purchase one ticket to the fictional Farhampton, presumably to go play in the band at the impending nuptials between Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin (Cobie Smulders).
Ads for cut-rate tickets are staples of Newsday and the Long Island Rail Road.
Outside of rail and technology companies, almost none of them discussed long-term plans to significantly expand their work force.
Anthony Smith, chief executive of passenger group Passenger Focus, said with the number of rail-users continuing to grow, there was a long-term need to boost the capacity.
Mr Baker sought guarantees that money would not be "raided" from existing rail projects to pay for HSR and asked for a long-term commitment to extend it to Scotland.
As if congested shipping and rail were not enough, there is also a shortage of long-distance lorry drivers, who shift the bulk of America's freight.
It also said the resilience of the third rail network south of the Thames should be improved, and the long-term aim should be to replace the existing network with a more resilient form of electrification.
So serious are these hurdles that it takes six days for a rail-freight wagon to get to Milan from London, twice as long as a heavy lorry.
The MTA took extensive measures before the storm to limit the amount of water flooding into tunnels, including by boarding up ventilation grates in low-lying stations, piling sandbags at station entrances, inflating a rubber dam in the Long Island Rail Road's West Side yards in Manhattan and hastily erecting a floodwall across the mouth of the No. 3 train tunnel near East 148th Street in Harlem.
By the mid-1930s the overnight sleeper train eased the prospect of a long journey and established a classic form of rail travel.
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The North East Rail Passengers Committee said the SRA had failed to step in to resolve a year-long conductors' strike at Arriva Trains Northern.
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