Portal:Trains/Did you know/June 2019

June 2019

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SMR Rail Car No 2 outside the workshops in 1961
 
A South Island line train approaching Ocean Park in 2016
 
Map of proposed and completed railway lines in southeast England in 1840, showing the South Eastern Railway to Folkestone
 
SAR Class 7E E7058 in 2013
 
SNCF locomotive number 40110 preserved in 2009
 
London Underground tracks at Finchley Central station in 2014
 
Smardale Gill Viaduct in 2016
 
E238 at the Salt River Depot, Cape Town, in 1966
 
SNCF 13052 preserved at Cité du Train in 2013
  • ...that the single cab design was chosen for SNCF's BB 13000 class because previous experience had suggested that providing duplicated control gear at the ends of the locomotive was the least reliable part of an electric locomotive?
 
A Dart Valley Railway train in 1973
 
The old and new Como Bridges in 2011
 
A train arriving at South Attleboro station in June 2013
 
Portrait of Class 2 locomotive number 326 circa 1905
 
The footbridge over the tracks and platforms at South Acton station in 2017
  • ...that South Acton has had continuous Boston commuter service since its inception except for five months in 1965 during the transition from fully private railroad operations to state subsidy?
 
A SMART train at Santa Rosa Downtown station in 2018
  • ...that although many of the SMART station platforms are located near historic depots in city centers, all stops use newly-constructed 48-inch (120 cm) high-floor platforms for improved accessibility?
 
Northbound Somerset & Dorset train climbing up from Shepton Mallet at Windsor Hill in 1959
 
A train on the Solis Viaduct in July 2009
 
A train on the Sōbu Main Line in May 2009
  • ...that the more urbanized section of JR East's Sōbu Main Line west of Chiba is informally, but commonly, called the Sōbu Line (総武線, Sōbu sen), while the "Main Line" refers to the more rural section east of Chiba?
 
PO E.1 preserved at Mulhouse railway museum, 2012
 
Preserved SM91 tram number 606 in May 2008
 
A train arriving at Selby station, mentioned in the song "Slow Train", in 1957
 
The conduit for the River Westbourne above a Circle Line train at Sloane Square station in 2006
 
A Skyline dome on the Canadian at Jasper in 2006