Portal:Trains/Did you know/July 2014

July 2014

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A Kurobe Senyo Railway (Jobu Track) train at Keyakidaira-Jobu Station in 2007
  • ...that construction of the Kurobe Senyō Railway section called High Temperature Tunnel (高熱隧道, Kōnetsu Zuidō) in Toyama Prefecture, Japan, was made difficult by the temperature of surrounding rocks which reached as high as 160 °C (320 °F) at the time?
 
A railway crossing of Kintetsu Kōsaku Line in 2007
 
A Nankai Electric Railway type 50000 Rapi:t train at Kansai Airport Station in 2010
 
EF58 61 on a special charter train in June 2006
  • ...that of the 172 JNR Class EF58 electric locomotives built between 1946 and 1958, one of the class, EF58 61, was built specially for use as the official Imperial Train locomotive and is still maintained in immaculate condition in its original brown livery?
 
A postcard view of the Jardin d'Acclimatation railway circa 1910
  • ...that the 500 mm (19+34 in) minimum gauge Jardin d'Acclimatation railway, in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, became the first passenger-carrying narrow gauge railway of France when it opened in 1878?
 
Markings on the platform at Hitomarumae Station showing the Japan Standard Time meridian
 
A portrait of Benjamin Hick painted by George Patten
 
The platforms and tracks at Dekijima station in 2010
 
Two CAF-built trainsets on the Sacramento light rail system, passing at Mather Field/Mills station in 2006
 
Z 50015/16 and Z 50017/18 units on the same platform during inauguration day, at the gare de Luzarches
 
A train at Showgrounds station in 2005
 
A train at Ichijodani Station on the Etsumi-Hoku Line in 2005
 
The former University station in 1975
 
Grand Trunk Express near Delhi in 2010
 
A Comeng train at Flinders Street station in 2010
 
Preserved 0-4-2 locomotive "Blackie" at Cape Town station in 2007
 
Preserved 0-4-2 locomotive "Blackie" at Cape Town station in 2007
 
The platforms at Denville Junction station in 2010
 
Barry Links station in 2005
 
A type 1000 train on the Aonami Line in 2007