Portal:Trains/Did you know/August 2012

August 2012

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The Hicks plant before the 1910 fire
 
The facade of Maastricht station in 2008
 
The entrance to Hanxi Changlong Station in 2007
  • ...that before Hanxi Changlong Station started operations on Guangzhou Metro's Line 3, the station was previously named "Hanxi Station" and "Changlong Station" successively, but local residents objected to the latter name as it favored the owners of the nearby Chime-Long Paradise and the station's current name was chosen as a compromise?
 
Hagiyama station platforms in 2008
 
An Alsthom-built tram in Grenoble in 2006
  • ...that when the Grenoble tramway was initially opened in 1987, a system which has since been expanded to measure 35 kilometres (22 mi) long over four lines, Grenoble became the second French city to reintroduce trams, after Nantes?
 
Karl Gölsdorf before 1907
 
Aftermath of the Garrison derailment in 1897
  • ...that two weeks before the Garrison train crash occurred in October 1897 in Garrison, New York, another instance of train 46, which was the scheduled train in the accident, had almost derailed near the same spot when a two-ton boulder was found on the tracks, with some believing it had been deliberately placed?
 
The Gangnam Station sign
 
A train on the Furusato Ginga Line in 2006
  • ...that unlike other lines shut down by Japanese National Railways and JR Hokkaido, a successor company was established in 1989 to operate the Chihoku Line; the new company renamed the Chihoku Line to the Furusato Ginga Line ("Hometown Galaxy Line") and introduced new cars, continuing operations until 2006?
 
One of the bridges on the Forest Way trail in 2005
 
A specially-equipped TGV train making a 574 km/h record setting run in 2007
 
RFFSA MACOSA G22U #4392-6L pulling a passenger train in the Ferrovia Curitiba-Paranaguá line in 2008
 
An E3 series Komachi at Omagari station in 2005
  • ...that the E3 Series Shinkansen trains were introduced in 1997 coinciding with the opening of the new Akita Shinkansen 'mini-shinkansen' line, a regular 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge line between Morioka and Akita, Japan, upgraded to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge?
 
The track side of Dunedin station in 2007
 
60163 Tornado hauls a charter train from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley in 2009; overhead lines were removed from the original photograph
  • ...that the ethics of digital manipulation in railway photography, which is sometimes employed in the photography of steam locomotives remove anachronistic objects from the scene in order to portray a more authentic setting, are debated amongst railway enthusiasts as the manipulation allows the creation of images that may appear to be other than their actual subjects?
 
A 5000 class EMU train on the Daiyūzan Line circa 1993
 
Trams of the Cork Electric Tramways and Lighting Company on Patrick Street, Cork, circa 1900
 
A CityRail ticket from 2006 showing the Clearways project graphics
 
A Chemin de fer du Vivarais train at Lamastre
 
The former LSWR railway bridge over Little Petherick Creek on the Camel Trail near Padstow in 2009
  • ...that there have been considerable efforts to convert the Camel Trail, a former railway right-of-way in Cornwall, United Kingdom, back into a railway, in order to allow it to carry china clay traffic again and to extend the Bodmin and Wenford Railway but they have so far been rejected citing the trail's use by the community and that many roads have been converted to one-way traffic since the trail opened?
 
Diamond Jim Brady in 1900
 
Bickington Steam Railway at Trago Mills in 2004
 
Map of the Ballymena & Larne Railway circa 1906
 
Ayashi station in 2008
 
Asansol station in 2008
  • ...that the railway establishment surrounding what is now Asansol Junction in West Bengal. India, contributed substantially to the development and growth of the area by facilitating freight transportation to and from the growing industries and moving it off barges traveling the inconsistent waters of the Damodar River?
 
Ardeer station platform in 2007