The great trunk railway from Santiago south to Puerto Montt crosses the western part of the province and also connects it with the port of Concepción.

It was a question of seeing that the final outlet of the main trunk railway should be at Kowloon, and at no other place.

In terms of transportation infrastructure, 5,800 kilometers of trunk railway, 3,400 kilometers of double-track lines, and 2,600 kilometers of electrified railway were built.

The former main company in the suburb was the Southdown Freezing Works, part of a large industrial zone located near the main trunk railway at this point.

This was once the site of the Westfield Freezing Works, part of a large industrial zone located near the main trunk railway at this point.

It straddles the state highway as well as the main trunk railway in the foothills forming the gateway to the Central Plateau.

The 12 original trunk railways of the city at the time joined together to build the new Union Station and to coordinate the bridges and switches that serve the city.

This line was the route of the main trunk railway out of Wellington until the 1940s, when it became the Johnsonville branch line.

That 83-mile southern stretch was Europe's third busiest trunk railway after French high-speed services and Germany's Rhine Valley lines.

The line built by the company was the first trunk railway to be completed in England, and arguably the world's first long-distance railway with steam traction.