Portal:Trains/Did you know/December 2011

December 2011

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The Pallot Museum train arrives at the station platform in 2009
 
An Otis Hovair system in use at Narita Airport, Tokyo, Japan, in 2008
 
Omoromachi Station in 2006
 
The south entrance to Oakamoor Tunnel close to Oakamoor Station in 2011
 
A refurbished ADL class DMU at Britomart Transport Centre in 2006
 
The railway equipment preserved by Northern Ontario Railroad Museum in 2009
 
An El 5 class locomotive built by NEBB at Sandesund station in 1970
 
Nishi-Urawa station in 2008
 
NIR 3005 at Belfast Central station in 2007
 
Hewitt station on the New York and Greenwood Lake Railway in 1909
 
The northbound platform of the underground Neumarkt station in 2010
 
The tracks and platforms at Nakano-shimbashi Station in 2006
 
The facade of Nador Ville station in August 2009
 
A Northern Spirit train at Wakefield Kirkgate railway station in 2006
 
A Pittsburgh Light Rail train emerging from Lebanon Tunnel in March 2011
 
John Molson (date unknown)
  • ...that the development of the first railways in England in the late 1820s inspired John Molson to pursue railroad development in Canada, leading to his company building the first railway line in the country, connecting the Saint Lawrence River and the Hudson River, where his company's steamships continued passengers' travels between Montreal and New York City?
 
The Tsukuba Express platforms of Minami-Nagareyama Station in 2008
  • ...that the Tsukuba Express platforms at Minami-Nagareyama Station in Nagareyama, Chiba, Japan, which were built in 2005 approximately 125 m (410 ft) long to accommodate 6-car trains, are scheduled to be lengthened by 40 m (130 ft) in either direction by autumn 2012 to allow the train stopping positions to be offset, reducing platform crowding during peak periods?
 
The former platform and right-of-way for Milcote station in 2005
 
One of the platforms of Haxo station during a tour of the station in 2006
 
MEMU at Kollam in 2011
 
The Matsuo Station platform shelter, which was designed to look like an older shelter, in 2009
 
Mandurah station on its relaunch as a railway station in 2007
 
W.G. McAdoo in 1914
  • ...that in 1895, William Gibbs McAdoo returned to Knoxville, Tennessee, after a few years in New York City and regained control of part of his bankrupt streetcar company (which had been auctioned off), then in subsequent months, he engaged in a continuous struggle with Ohio businessman C.C. Howell over control of the city's streetcar system, culminating in a bizarre incident known as the Battle of Depot Street?
 
Metronet 66712 at Ipswich in 2006
 
A live steam model of Class 8P number 6200 The Princess Royal in 2008
  • ...that in live steam rail transport modelling, often the track gauge has little to do with the scale of a locomotive since larger equipment can be built in a narrow-gauge configuration which leads to scales of 1.5, 1.6, 2.5 and 3 inches per foot (corresponding to scales of 1:8 to 1:4) being used on a 7+12 in (190.5 mm) track gauge?
 
A postcard showing the entrance to the Detroit River Tunnel in the early 1900s
 
A Buenos Aires Metro train arrives at Peru Station of Line A in 2009
  • ...that Line A of the Buenos Aires Underground in Argentina opened to the public on 1 December 1913, becoming the first rapid transit line in South America, the Southern Hemisphere and the entire Spanish-speaking world and making Buenos Aires became the thirteenth city in the world to have an underground transport service?
 
The former control tower at Lehrte in 2004