Portal:Trains/Did you know/May 2012

May 2012

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A train on the Tamagawa Line at Musashi-Sakai Station in 2008
 
The track side of Mount Barker station in 2008
 
A Moscow Monorail train arriving at Telecentre station in 2009
 
A preserved USATC S160 Class locomotive in 2006
 
A 21 series train of the Midōsuji Line in 2006
 
The cable tram in Melbourne at its opening in 1885
 
The entrance to Oxford Circus station in 2005
 
A Mariazell Railway train on the Saugrabenviadukt in 2003
  • ...that the 760 mm (2 ft 5+1516 in) track gauge of the Mariazell Railway in Austria was chosen, like all narrow gauge railway undertakings in the "Danube Monarchy," by the military administration, as rolling stock used in military service on railways in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which used the 760 mm gauge, would need to be brought in?
 
Daniel McCallum circa 1870
 
Livoberezhna station in 2007
 
William G. Lewis
 
Lahore station in 2004
 
Route map of the proposed and partly-constructed Krasnoyarsk Metro
  • ...that although construction began on the Krasnoyarsk Metro in Russia in 1995, continued funding problems slowed construction such that by the time its proposed 2005 opening date arrived, tunneling had only been completed between two stations and the system is now not expected to open until 2014?
 
A Kintetsu 6400 series train crossing the Yamato River on the Dōmyōji Line in 2007
 
Schwandorf station in 2005
 
Kimberley West station in 2006
 
The platforms and tracks of Karşıyaka station in 2011
 
JR Kyushu 885 series EMU on a Shiroi Kamome service at Nagasaki Station in 2005
 
Route map of the Jungang line through South Korea
 
Christchurch Stephenson tram No 1 at Ferrymead Tramway, New Zealand, in 2007
 
The James Whitcomb Riley at Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1974
 
Stubaital station in 2005
 
JR Central 119 Series train at Inakita Station in 2008
  • ...that the 195.7-kilometre long (121.6 mi) Iida Line now operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), was originally four different private railway lines, the first of which opened in 1897, and has an unusually high number of stations, some of which have since lost their nearby communities due to depopulation?