Portal:Trains/Did you know/June 2009

June 2009

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SNCF 460018 in 2007 at Hendaye
  • ...that in the original design for SNCF's BB 60000 class, the locomotives were to be powered with an MTU engine, as those engines were used in BB69400 and BB75000 locomotives and had a good performance, but the MTU engine was replaced with one from Caterpillar due to financial reasons?
 
Sandsfoot Castle station platform in 2008
  • ...that Sandsfoot Castle Halt, opened in July 1909 as part of a scheme that saw several halts opened on the GWR and other railways to counter road competition, and closed with the branch in 1952, remains as a timber platform on the Rodwell Trail?
 
Russian train accident in 1888, showing the crushed dining car and grand-ducal car
 
Route map of the Interoceanic Railway of Mexico in 1912
 
Hrvatske željeznice series 2044 locomotive, a GT22HW, in 2007
 
Route map of the Chao Chow and Swatow Railway
 
Two Millennium Line trains meet at Brentwood station in 2005
  • ...that in anticipation for the second phase of construction on the Millennium Line in Vancouver, an extension from Lougheed Mall to Coquitlam, switches were installed to the east of Lougheed Town Centre Station and a third platform was roughed-in but the extension was canceled following a change in provincial government?
 
Class 261 (V 60) locomotive in 1984 at Uelzen
 
Rådhuset, a metro station in Stockholm, Sweden
 
Maunsell U1 class 2-6-0 Number A899 at Waterloo
 
Class 754 (ex T 478.4) diesel engine used in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic and former Czechoslovakia.
 
Fare gates and Charlie Card ticket machine at the MBTA World Trade Center Silver Line station in Boston
 
Victorian Railways A2 class locomotive
 
Harman's Cross station
 
Electric multiple unit 680 Pendolio at Prague main station
 
The engine "Firefly" on a trestle of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad
 
Two G class locomotives during a shunt movement at Tent Hill, South Australia, in 2007
 
Route map of the Mexican Railway in 1912
 
Bristol and Exeter Railway locomotive No. 44, built in 1854 with 9-foot (2.7 m) diameter drivers, withdrawn 1870
 
TRA S302, an EMD GA8, in 2007 preserved at TaiAn Station, Taiwan
 
BTS Skytrain at one of the stations in 2007
 
TTC streetcar number 4028 in 2005
 
An Alstom Prima locomotive in Chemins de Fer Syriens livery, Syria, in 2007
 
Frederick Billings c. 1876
 
TransAdelaide railcars 3131/3132 exiting Sleeps Hill Tunnel. 09.41 Belair to Adelaide, 9 May 2005
 
Laindon railway station in 2008
 
The railway track monument at Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum
  • ...that the Hellfire Pass cutting on the infamous Burma Railway was built as a cutting rather than a tunnel as construction could take place at all points along its length simultaneously, despite the excess effort required by the Allied POWs and Malayan labourers forced to build it?
 
Railway network of Sri Lanka
  • ...that although the Sri Lanka Railway was initially built to transport goods such as coffee and tea for export, with time and population growth passenger traffic increased and since the 1960s has overtaken freight as the main source of revenue?
 
Anatole Mallet