Portal:Trains/Did you know/June 2014

June 2014

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Trams at Laxey Station during the Year of Railways celebration in 1993
  • ...that the railways of the Isle of Man collectively celebrated the centennial of railway service on the island with the Year of Railways in 1993 featuring rare operations of vintage equipment and special tours of railway lines?
 
A wheeltapper at work in Bulgaria in 2009
 
System map of the Warrington Tramways
 
Preserved FP9ARM number 6309 undergoing restoration in 2007
  • ...that of the fifteen VIA Rail FP9s that were rebuilt to become FP9ARM locomotives, The first five, re-manufactured in 1983 and early 1984, were outshopped without steam generators and half of the fleet were later retrofitted with head end power alternators?
 
A small railway station (exact position unknown) of the Usambara Railway in 2013
 
The track of the Chemin de fer funiculaire Territet-Glion in 2012
 
A Tokyo Metro 01 series train in 2009
 
A route sign for the defunct Temiya railway line in Otaru, Hokkaidō, in 2005
  • ...that the Temiya Line, in Hokkaidō, Japan, was originally intended to extend from the seashore to the colliery at Temari-mura Kayanuma, but was deemed inefficient, as ships could do the same work as trains on the line?
 
The newly completed southern facade of Takahatafudō Station in 2007
 
A Surfliner car leads the Pacific Surfliner in push mode at Lake Forest, California, in 2010
  • ...that the third-generation Surfliner passenger cars under development by Sumitomo and expected to be delivered in 2015 will feature crash energy management technology?
 
The preserved State of the Art Car at the Seashore Trolley Museum in 2009
 
A preserved and restored SAR Class NG6 locomotive in 2006
 
South African Railways Class 7D locomotive number 1353 circa 1950
 
Builder's photo of Natal Government Railways Class 3 number 332
 
The tracks and platforms of Songtan Station in 2006
 
Route Map of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hongkong Express Rail Link
  • ...that the 10.8-kilometre long (6.7 mi) Shiziyang Tunnel under the Pearl River estuary in China was designed for speeds of up to 350 km/h (220 mph) making it the fastest underwater tunnel in the world?
 
The platforms and tracks at Shin-Koiwa Station in 2007
 
A former SEMTA GP9 at Boston's South Station in 2006
 
JR West 500 series shinkansen set W7 on the Nozomi 172 service for Tokyo on the Sanyo Shinkansen between Okayama and Aioi in 2008
  • ...that when it opened in 1972, Sanyō Shinkansen services, using 0 series trains, made the Shin-Ōsaka to Hakata run in 3 hours 44 minutes, but travel time has since been reduced with the 1997 introduction of the 500 series trains on Nozomi services which traverse the line in 2 hours 17 minutes at a maximum speed of 300 km/h?
 
A Sakura-dōri Line 6050 series train in 2010
 
Rowan Car No.1 in 1883
 
Remote control equipped locomotives of BNSF Railway in Seattle, Washington, in 2010
 
A Railjet train at Budapest, Hungary, in 2010
 
The central platform of Ploshchad Ilyicha station in 2007
  • ...that Ploshchad Ilyicha, on Moscow Metro's Kalininskaya Line, was named after Il'ich square, which has since been renamed Rogozhskaya Zastava, but the station's architecture was influenced by the former name as the realisation of Lenin's ideas by architects L. Popov and V. Klokov and engineers Ye. Barsky and Yu. Murmotsev?
 
The tracks and platforms at Pasay Road station in 2011
 
North West Rail Link route diagram
 
North West Rail Link route diagram