Portal:Trains/Did you know/June 2013

June 2013

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An Odakyu 60000 series MSE at Ono depot in 2007
 
BA class number 552 at Mainline Steam's Parnell depot in 2010
  • ...that although New Zealand Railways BA class 4-8-0 locomotives 552 and 498 were both rebuilt in 1928 with wider fireboxes, it was almost two decades before the alterations were performed on any other members of the class?
 
North Coast Hiawatha at Yakima, Washington, in August 1971
 
The tracks and platforms of Nishi-magome station in 2007
 
Withdrawn D class 0-6-0 number 68470 in at Bathgate Locomotive Depot in 1962
  • ...that North British Railway's D class 0-6-0T steam locomotives, which entered service in 1900-1901 and were withdrawn in the 1950s, were considered successful with only three of the class failing to complete one million miles (1,600,000 km) during their lifetime, and No. 9830 managed to complete two million miles (3,200,000 km)?
 
Noto Railway NT200 series DMU at Anamizu Station in 2007
 
Naha-kūkō Station in 2011
 
The summit station of the Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye railway in 2004
  • ...that the 800 mm (2 ft 7+12 in) gauge Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye railway above Lake Geneva in Switzerland was originally built as two separate lines, the Glion–Rochers-de-Naye railway, which opened in 1892, and the Montreux–Glion railway, which opened in 1909?
 
Aftermath of the Mitaka incident in 1949
 
A section of Miller's line where the first experiments in electric traction took place, seen in the early 1900s
 
A Z3 class tram on route 3a in St Kilda in 2012
 
A modern Bombardier tram on Marseille tramway's line 2 in 2008
  • ...that unlike tram systems that were built in most other French cities, the Marseille tramway, which originally opened in 1876 using horsecars, has never closed and continues in operation?
 
The railway bridge known as MacNeill's Egyptian Arch in 2006
 
A statue of Thomas Lowry in Minneapolis in 2007
 
The platforms and tracks of Lod station in 2011
  • ...that for many years Lod Railway Station (then called Lydda) was the main railway hub of Palestine and later Israel as it sits at the intersection of several major rail lines located in the central part of the country, and the station is now the 11th most heavily used station of Israel Railways by ticket sales numbers?
 
A section of the Mumbai Monorail under construction in Chembur in 2012
 
A preserved hopper car used by Lambton Colliery in pit service
 
Namiti Bridge on the Kunming-Hekou Railway in 1911