Railways as world heritage sites

photo by Charles MartinCOULLS, Anthony. Railways as World Heritage Sites. (with contributions by Colin Divall and Robert Lee) International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), 1999

The article discusses various case studies:

The Moscow Underground
The Semmering Pass, Austria
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, United States of America
The Great Zig Zag, Australia
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, India
The Liverpool & Manchester Railway, United Kingdom
The Great Western Railway, United Kingdom
The Shinkansen, Japan

www.icomos.org/studies/railways.pdf