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During the 19 century, Isambard Kingdom Brunel challenged to serve a unique railway from Exeter to Starcross, South Devon, England. The railway was called Atmospheric Railway. It was driven by pressure difference between front and rear faces of a piston in a pipeline laid beneath the center of the track. The railway became bankrupt after six months because of insufficient drive force, material wear and tear, undeveloped communication system between train and pump-station, etc. The authors present a technical possibility of Brunel's atmospheric railway systems as a small size local transport sector and examine its commercial and practical application. We shall be able to accomplish the railway systems, which were unsuccessful during Brunel ages, by applying the today's technologies and materials.
