Portal:Trains/Did you know/December 2019

December 2019

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Schematic drawing of a track circuit on unoccupied track
 
An TLR0600 train on the Toyama Light Rail Toyama Port Line in 2015
 
The former Tower station and preserved train behind it in 2017
 
The Tower City Center complex main building in 2012
  • ...that site preparation for Cleveland Union Terminal in 1922, now Tower City Center, required the demolition of approximately 2,200 buildings?
 
A train at Totnes station passing the unused atmospheric railway engine house in 2013
 
Uinta-Piceance Basins geologic map
 
The southern signal box at Torquay station in 2009
 
One of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway's Fairlie locomotives circa 1915
 
The cab and number plate of First Great Western locomotive 57604 "Pendennis Castle" in November 2010
 
A token catcher in operation at Horopito in 1921
  • ...that some British railways developed mechanical systems that enabled faster token handover, using catcher devices that could be extended from the locomotive cabside?
 
A Tobu 7800 series 4-car EMU approaching Ogose Station on the Tobu Ogose Line in 1977