Portal:Trains/Did you know/January 2008

January 2008

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Skitube railway cars and rack railway track in 2005
 
Map of railway lines in the Netherlands showing current operators
  • ...that although the first railway in the Netherlands was built using broad gauge tracks in 1839, the entire current network of rail transport in the Netherlands now uses 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge tracks?
 
E217 series EMU approaching Kita-Kamakura station on the Yokosuka Line
 
A preserved RS-1 at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
 
Petäjärvi railway station on the Saint Petersburg–Hiitola in the 1930s
 
The view from platform 2, Sowerby Bridge railway station
 
Scale model of the Schwerer Gustav
  • ...that the Schwerer Gustav railway guns, developed in Germany the late 1930s by Krupp in order to destroy large, heavily fortified targets, could fire a shell that weighed more than 7 tons at distances up to 37 km (23 miles)?
 
An ALCO S-1, a model built in the Alco-GE partnership era
 
Lai King Station entrance
 
Map of railways in Kent, including the Hundred of Hoo Railway
 
Japanese D51 locomotive outside Yuzhno-Sakhalin Railway Station, Sakhalin Island, Russia
 
Tunnel entrance of the Beach Pneumatic Railway as seen from one of the two stations
  • ...that a one-city-block long demonstration tunnel of the Beach Pneumatic Transit system opened in New York City in 1870, but by the time Alfred Ely Beach, its inventor, finally gained permission to expand the system in 1873, public and financial support had waned, and the subway was closed down?
 
WDG-4 number 12049 at Hi-Tec station in 2004
 
A train on the Puffing Billy Railway in 2003
  • ...that the 30 mm (1.181 in) gauge Puffing Billy Railway near Melbourne, Australia, aims to preserve the line as near as possible to how it was in the first three decades of its existence, with particular emphasis on the early 1920s?
 
The former HSM headquarters building in Amsterdam
 
Piraeus Station in 2007
 
A modern metre gauge traon of FCAB in Chile
 
An E626 class locomotive, a "multiruolo" (multi-role) locomotive under Bianchi's proposal
 
Map of Ann Arbor Railroad
 
Wymondham station in 2004
 
Tobu Railway number 50056 on the Isesaki Line in Tokyo
 
Preserved Victorian Railways locomotive L1162 in 2007
 
A TW6000 tram of the Hanover Stadtbahn
  • ...that the TW 6000 articulated light rail vehicles delivered to BKV, the public transport company of Budapest, Hungary, earned the nickname "banana" because they were delivered wearing a green livery but were soon repainted into an orange livery?
 
The Stourbridge Lion's first run, as depicted by Clyde Osmer DeLand c. 1916
 
Durham Viaduct on the East Coast Main Line
 
Tsing Ma Bridge at night