Portal:Trains/Did you know/January 2018

January 2018

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JR East EF510-501 hauls the "Hokutosei" sleeping car service on the Tohoku Main Line between Kurihashi and Higashi-Washinomiya Stations in 2010
 
The narrow gauge tracks at Karuizawa Station in 2011 with the standard gauge Shinkansen tracks to the right
 
Exterior of Hof Hauptbahnhof in 2011
 
Map of the Hocking Valley Railway in 1903
 
The oldest known photograph of railways in Finland shows A1 class locomotive "Pohja" at Hämeenlinna railway station in 1865
 
Locomotive 01 118 in 2015
 
A China Railways CRH3 train set on the Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway in 2011
  • ...that as of the end of December 2016, China has 22,000 kilometres (14,000 miles) of high-speed rail, accounting for two-thirds of the world's total high-speed trackage?
 
A train on the High Bridge in 2003
 
A train of the Kauai Plantation Railway at the station in 2014
  • ...that The Kauai Plantation Railway, one of the heritage railways in Kauai, opened for business in January 2007 as "the first new railroad to be built in Hawaii in 100 years"?
 
A postage stamp showing the Henschel-Wegmann Train's locomotive
 
A Great Western Train about to travel under the Hengoed Viaduct in 1962
 
A HEMU-430X train on a test run at Seodaejeon Station in 2014
 
A Heathrow Express train ready to leave the station in 2008
 
Electric supply cables between cars on a train in China in 2015
 
Hayes & Harlington station in 1994
 
Hawthorn Farm station with the art installation on its platform in 2011
  • ...that artwork at the MAX Light Rail Hawthorn Farm station uses electronics to provide waiting passengers with indicators of approaching trains as well as the wind's direction and sounds from a neighboring wetlands area?
 
Andover station on a single track section of the Haverhill Line in 2013
 
The tracks and platforms at Havant station in 2005
  • ...that prior to the 1921 grouping, the "Battle of Havant" took place between the LB&SCR and the L&SWR when the two fought for the right to use LB&SCR tracks into Havant in order for the L&SWR to reach Portsmouth?
 
A train of the Hastings Miniature Railway at the Rock-a-Nore station in 2011
  • ...that the Hastings Miniature Railway was developed in part to provide a place to operate some 10+14 in (260 mm) gauge rolling stock owned by railway entrepreneur Captain J.E.P. Howey, who built and owned the 15 in (381 mm) gauge Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway?