Portal:Trains/Did you know/June 2007

June 2007

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A New York City Subway train of R142 cars is seen operating on the "4" line.
 
NSB El 18 with the express train at Finse on Bergensbanen
  • ...that Norway's Bergensbanen railway line, which features no fewer than 182 tunnels and 300 bridges along its 493 km (306 mi) route between Oslo and Bergen, has recently been threatened with closure in favor of road-based transport alternatives?
 
Schneeberg cog railway steam locomotive, with tilted boiler, on level track
  • ...that because of the many difficulties associated with operating steam locomotives (which do not function properly unless the boiler is relatively level) on extreme gradients, rack railways were among the first railways to be electrified?
 
A train on Metro Line 2 leaving Keleti pályaudvar station
  • ...that Hungary's Budapest Metro, the second oldest underground metro system in the world after the London Underground, is currently undergoing major expansion with an all new line (Metro 4) already under construction, and a further line (Metro 5) expected to begin construction during 2007?
 
British Rail Class 101 DMU, built by Metro Cammell
 
An SP1950 approaching the platform of Tai Wai station
 
Preserved SteamRanger locomotive No. 621, an unstreamlined 620 class locomotive
 
Intermodal train shortly after passing the Biaschina-Loops on the southern ramp of the Gotthardbahn
 
143 184-0 near Unkel
 
Replica of GWR Firefly 2-2-2 locomotive of 1840
 
General Electric U30C locomotive of the Tanzania Zambia Railway authority in Mlimba station, Tanzania
 
Pacific Surfliner at Carlsbad, California
 
Hua Lamphong Central Railway Station, Bangkok, Thailand
  • ...that with 14 platforms, 26 ticket booths and two electric display boards, Bangkok, Thailand's Hua Lamphong railway station serves over 130 trains and approximately 60,000 passengers each day?
 
Baureihe 420 in Munich
 
Two diesel locomotives pull a passenger train into Dar es Salaam's main railway station
 
Home (upper) and Distant (lower) signals
 
Preserved C class locomotive C 10
 
Vienna Südbahnhof, c. 1875
 
Vacuum brake diagram
  • ...that the now-obsolete vacuum brake system, first introduced in the 1860s to allow the automatic application of brakes down the length of a train from a simple control in the driver's hand, was the primary form of train braking in the United Kingdom until the 1970s?
 
ADK class DMU at Papakura
 
view from a train travelling along the route of the Trans-Aral Railway
 
CP's Alfa Pendular tilting train at Orient Station in Lisbon
  • ...that while the rail systems of most Continental European countries use 4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge track for part or all of their network, the Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses in Portugal utilises only 5 ft 5⅝ in (1668 mm) broad gauge or 3 ft 3⅜ in (1000 mm) metre gauge track?
 
Preserved 4-4-0 locomotive The General
 
A viaduct of the Vennbahn near Bütgenbach, Wallonia, Belgium
 
Former Victorian Railways L 1169