Portal:Trains/Did you know/August 2009

August 2009

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The preserved Boyce Station building in 2008
 
One of the level crossings on the Taurachbahn in 2002
 
Cochrane station in 2006
 
CO&E system map
 
Three BB 75000 class SNCF locomotives
 
The disused railway and station at Malual (also known as Rumakel/Ruma-Ker) in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan
  • ...that despite the rapidly growing use of roads, rail transport in Sudan has remained of paramount importance to the country because of its ability to move at lower cost the large volume of agricultural exports and to transport inland the increasing imports of heavy capital equipment and construction materials for development, such as requirements for oil exploration and drilling operations?
 
Chipping Norton railway station in the early 1900s
 
Colorado and Southern steam locomotive number 71 in 1941
 
A Peruvian railmotor car at a station stop in 2007
  • ...that many of the lines that make up rail transport in Peru owe their origins to contracts granted to Henry Meiggs in the 1860s, but the mountainous nature of Peru made expansion slow and much of the surviving mileage is of twentieth-century origin?
 
The main railway station in Yangon
 
Bramhope Tunnel memorial in Otley churchyard
 
Bush Terminal as seen before 1920
 
Examples of rail buckling in extreme heat conditions
 
A class 333 locomotive pulling a passenger train in 1988
 
Cheddleton station in regular use before closure
 
A train and station on the Ontario Southern Railway
 
An Airport Express Train in Hong Kong in 2005
 
Bucknham station in January 2009
  • ...that according to Strategic Rail Authority figures, Buckenham railway station in the English county of Norfolk is one of the least-used stations in the country, with 13 entries and 16 exits for the year 2005/06, and for 2006/07 this had declined further to 22 total entries and exits?
 
Streetcars riding an incline in Cincinnati in 1904
  • ...that in the early part of the 20th century, Cincinnati streetcars used funicular systems to raise and lower the streetcars over four inclines surrounding the city that allowed the streetcars to directly connect to the city's suburbs?
 
The Maputo Railway Station, built between 1913 and 1916
 
A MotoRail vehicle at the front of the New South Wales Public Transport Commission's Gold Coast Motorail Express
 
Hudswell Clarke saddle tank Tubby at Blunsdon station in 2007
 
Canadian National 5715, an SD75I seen in Battle Creek, Michigan, in March 2009
  • ...that EMD's SD75I locomotive model is basically the same as the EMD SD75M, with 4,300 horsepower (3,200 kW), HTCR-II radial trucks and a 72 feet 4 inches (22.05 m) frame, but the locomotive's cab is fully isolated from the frame that dampens vibration and cuts down on noise in the cab?
  • ...that the two lines of Monterrey Metro, the newest of Mexico's metro systems, transported approximately 88.3 million passengers in 2008 and in the first quarter of 2009, following the extension of Line 2, they carried an average daily passenger load of 328,000 passengers?
 
Map of the Madras and South Mahratta Railway in 1914
 
Cholsey railway station buildings in 2005
 
BR&P route map as of 1907
 
The Monbulk Creek trestle bridge on the Puffing Billy Railway in 2003