Portal:Trains/Did you know/April 2020

April 2020

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Aftermath of the 1918 Weesp accident
 
Wee Georgie Wood Railway station
 
The preserved Wayzata Depot in 2007
 
The Waukesha terminal of the Waukesha Beach Railway in 1895
 
Original Watford Junction station being used as a car dealership office in 2008
 
Amtrak's Waterloo station (the former New York Central station building) in Waterloo, Indiana, in 2016
 
A Waterfront Streetcar tram eastbound on Main Street, at the Occidental Park stop in 1994
 
A Waterford and Suir Valley Railway train at a station in June 2018
 
A Watco Australia grain train in 2012
  • ...that Watco Australia transports an average of 10-12 million tonnes (368-441 million bushels) of grain from 192 country reception sites to CBH Group's four export terminals?
 
The former station at Purcellville in 2008
 
Track sections of the Warwickslade Cutting Railway
 
The Victoria line platform at Warren Street station in 2008
 
The Warren, Ohio, station on the Erie Railroad in the early 1960s, shortly before its 1964 demolition
 
A light railway train on the Western Front in the Ypres area in 1917
 
A ten-car EMU train on the Wannsee Railway in 1901
 
A train at Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof in 2014
 
A Wangerooge Island Railway train in 2015 on the dock with freight being transferred between it and the ship docked there
  • ...that the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 in) gauge Wangerooge Island Railway is the only narrow-gauge railway operated by Deutsche Bahn?
 
The tracks and platforms of Walton-on-Thames station in 2008
 
The Poughkeepsie Bridge in 2008 shortly before its reopening for pedestrian use
 
Portrait of Sir Wavell Wakefield in 1922
 
The Little Eaton Gangway in July 1908 with the last train of loaded coal wagons arriving
 
The former Wadebridge station, now the John Betjeman Centre, with restored canopy in 2007
 
W7 series set W3 on a public preview run in February 2015
 
A preserved Bagnall standard gauge 0-4-0WT in France in 2018
 
Builder's photo of a Vulcan Foundry locomotive ready for export to India
 
A Pr1 class locomotive pulls a passenger train at Kerava station in the 1950s
 
Three Dr16s pull a freight train in northern Finland in 2001
  • ...that the Dr16 class of diesel-electric locomotives built in the 1980s and early 1990s, which generate a power output of 1,677 kW (2,249 hp), are the most powerful diesel locomotives in VR's fleet?