Portal:Trains/Did you know/May 2020

May 2020

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The former turntable pit excavated near Westbourne Park tube station
 
A train at Westall station in 2013
 
A 2012 view along the Central Line at West Ruislip station, to where this track ends
  • ...that due to the original scheme to continue the extension to Denham, the Central line tracks at West Ruislip station continue for a short distance beyond the station before ending at buffers?
 
One of West Penn Railways' interurban cars in 1891
 
A West Midland Metro T-69 tram on the former Birmingham Snow Hill to Wolverhampton Low Level Line in 2005
 
A First ScotRail train to Fort William on the West Highland Line crosses Rannoch Moor in August 2007
 
A train at West Haven station in July 2013 shortly before its opening in August
 
The western end of the high level platforms at West Ham station in 2014
  • ...that West Ham station was built with four platforms and served in that configuration from its 1901 opening until it was damaged by bombs in World War II?
 
Postcard of trains at Concord Junction station circa 1910
  • ...that by the 1890s, Concord Junction, which is now West Concord station, was a busier village center than Concord itself, with 125 trains stopping per day?
 
A preserved West Clare Railway at Moyasta station in 2009
  • ...that in 1945 Local campaigners urged that the 3 ft (914 mm) gauge West Clare Railway, which was the last operating narrow gauge passenger system in Ireland when it closed in 1961, be converted to the standard Irish gauge of 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)?
 
The facade of West Chicago station in 2009
  • ...that the city of West Chicago contributed $25,000 from the city's capital projects fund to alter the modern architectural style of Metra's West Chicago station to a vintage, 19th-century look?
 
The Underground tracks and platforms at West Brompton station in 2006
 
West Bank station in May 2015
 
A passenger train on the last day of service at Seelingstädt station in May 1999
 
CRH2-139E, the trainset that was destroyed in the accident, seen here five months before the accident
 
Three VAL 256 trains on the Wenhu line in 2008
 
The tracks and platforms at Wells-next-the-Sea railway station in 1963
 
Portrait drawing of Arthur Wellington in 1895
  • ...that Arthur M. Wellington, who was chief engineer for several 19th century railroads North America, is credited as the originator of the saying "An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two"?
 
Wellington station in 1953
 
Postcard from 1910 showing the Wellington Cable Car emerging from the tunnel at the Salamanca Station stop
 
The preserved GWR 3440 City of Truro in 2009
 
Preserved locomotive No. 86 that ran on the Tramway until 1966, seen at the Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in 2010
  • ...that the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 in) gauge Wellingborough Tramway, which was first opened in the 1870s, was the last industrial narrow-gauge railway operating in The Midlands ironstone industry when it closed in 1966?
 
Preserved E2E No 1 at Freilassing Locomotive World, Germany, in 2009
 
NZR A class No. 428 at Frog Rock on the Weka Pass Railway in 2017
 
The original Wittenberg station building seen in 2006