Portal:Trains/Did you know/July 2015

July 2015

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Berea Union Depot in 2004
 
Paul Wild of CSIRO standing in front of a TGV in France in 1989
  • ...that although the Very Fast Train Joint Venture remains the most substantial investment into a high-speed rail project in Australia, speculation on its failure in 1991 included a difficult relationship between joint venture members, the deregulation of the Australian airline market and accusations that the scheme was in fact a disguised land development project?
 
Preserved UEC Preston tram number 2 in 2013
 
A tram on Tramlink Route 2 at Beckenham Junction in 2001
 
Former Canadian National Tempo cars in use on the Ski Train in 2008
 
Aerial view showing Stockholm Central Station and surrounding buildings in 2014
 
Two class 14E1 locomotives at Beaufort West, Western Cape, in 2007
 
Sierra Railway 28 in 2006
 
The Sand Lake Road station during an open house event in 2014
 
Aerial view of Rangierbahnhof Kornwestheim yard in Germany in 2008
  • ...that the railML data exchange format development began in 2002 as part of an effort to mitigate the chronic difficulty of connecting different railway IT applications, especially between European railway companies, and now includes schema for infrastructure, rolling stock and timetable information?
 
Observers gathered to see the opening of the Dandenong Road line opening in 1911
 
A Península Valdés Railway train hauled by a Krauss 0-4-0T locomotive, leaving Puerto Pirámides
  • ...that after the Ferro y Piaggio company folded in 1916, entrepreneur Alejandro Ferro reportedly acquired the assets of the Península Valdés Railway in Argentina, but the lack of documents or titles that proved his rights led to its complete closure in 1920?
 
Map of electric lines in Indiana and Ohio
 
The facade of New Jersey Avenue station in the late 1800s
 
Two M-Trains on the Kwun Tong Line near Kowloon Bay Station in 2008
 
A Materfer CMM 400-2 railcar on the Mitre Line in 2015
 
One of the extant stone piers of Nethan Viaduct in 2007
  • ...that Lesmahagow Railway's now demolished Nethan Viaduct was rebuilt soon after opening by inserting iron piers between the existing stone piers to raise the track level by 19+12 feet (5.9 m), making it one of the tallest viaducts in Scotland?
 
A Kintetsu Ise-Shima Liner at Ujiyamada Station in 2008
 
A pair of EF63s leading a 489 series EMU on a Hakusan service in June 1997
 
The platforms and tracks at Hiwa Station in 2008
 
A Hisatsu Orange Railway 100 series train in 2010