Portal:Trains/Did you know/June 2015

June 2015

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The Chard Central station building in 2006
 
Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway system map in 1863
 
A GAIA locomotive in 2008
 
A Fiat-Materfer train on the Buenos Aires Metro at Plaza de Mayo station in 2014
 
Estação Júlio Prestes in 2013
 
Postcard view of the Erie Railroad's Rochester station in 1908
 
Diridon station in 2005
 
The preserved experimental Class 951 shinkansen car 951-1 at Hikari Plaza, Kokubunji in Tokyo in 1997
 
Carmel Beach Railway Station in 2009
 
The Benalla station building in 2008
 
An Astra Dome car on the City of Los Angeles train in 1955
 
A MED set arriving at Lisburn railway station in May 1976
 
Tokyo Freight Terminal, just north of Haneda Airport, in 2010
  • ...that although both JR and the Tokyo government have indicated that improved Haneda Airport access is a high priority, JR has indicated that the connection and necessary upgrades to the Tōkaidō Freight Line will take around ten years to complete and are unlikely to be completely ready for the 2020 Summer Olympics?
 
A Train Navette Rapide at Rabat-Ville railway station in 2008
 
A TecnoTren railbus in 2011
 
Track maintenance equipment operated by SŽDC
  • ...that in August 2010 SŽDC was ordered to stop work on all railway infrastructure projects as part of broader Czech government austerity measures, but in September 2010 works were revived for all projects whose contractors agreed to grant a discount against the tender price?
 
Overall view of Beijing South station in 2010
 
South African Railways number 1756 in 1979
  • ...that about six years after the South African Railways Class 14B 4-8-2 locomotives were commissioned, a report claimed that the loss of haulage power and increased water and coal consumption due to the lack of superheaters on these locomotives represented a loss to the SAR of approximately £100,000?
 
The Sibelius at Saint Petersburg in 2007