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November 2007

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Three generations of Romancecar trainsets in 2007
 
Two PCC cars on SEPTA's Route 15
 
Preserved SR Q class locomotive on the Bluebell Railway
 
A Park Railway Maltanka steam locomotive in 2007
 
Radebeul-Radeburg line train next to the standard gauge line
  • ...that the 750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in) gauge Radebeul-Radeburg line in Dresden, Germany, is regularly operated by BVO GmbH using steam locomotives built in the 1950s, while older trains, using engines and cars built in the late 19th and early 20th century, are maintained by the non-profit Traditionsbahn Radebeul e.V. and are operated for special occasions?
 
A V/Line locomotive
 
Saint Lazare station with platform screen doors in 2004
 
Oxford station in 2005
 
The concourse and gates at Po Lam station
  • ...that unlike most MTR stations in Hong Kong, the concourse, gates and platform of Po Lam Station are at the same level, and there is only one track from which trains depart in the same direction as they arrived which necessitates the halting of trains from Hang Hau Station midway between the stations while a train currently at the station departs?
 
Preserved SM15 in Warsaw
  • ...that in order to hasten the introduction of more powerful locomotives into Polish railways the first two of PKP's class SM15 locomotives, SM15-01 and SM15-02, were imported from the Soviet Union with subsequent production beginning in 1963 in Fablok, Chrzanów, with mainly of Soviet parts?
 
The former C&O depot in Muncie, Indiana
 
Map of Schiphollijn
 
A Pacific National freight train at Grovedale
 
Bodmin Parkway station in 2005
 
3985 in operation
 
An RER B line train at Gare de La Plaine - Stade de France station
  • ...that on RER's Line B in Paris, France, the portion south of Gare du Nord is operated by RATP while the portion north of the station is operated by SNCF, requiring a change of train drivers at the station for the Interconnexion trains that travel from one network to the other?
 
Map of the Rechte Rheinstrecke route in Germany
  • ...that during the Franco-Prussian War the Rechte Rheinstrecke line in present day Germany received great strategic importance as a supply route and as a result the building of the Sieg bridge was accelerated with extra workers, starting in the late summer of 1870?
 
80104 on the Watercress Line at Ropley
 
A Victorian Railways McKeen car at Wodonga, c. 1911
 
A Pullman Porter aboard a train in one of Chicago's stations
 
Platform of Auber RER station, Paris, September 2005
 
A class 323 locomotive (a class which made up the PKP class SM01) in Mannheim, Germany
 
The Itz viaduct on the Nuremberg-Erfurt line under construction
 
The driving wheels (boxed) on a 4-6-2 locomotive.
 
A line 1 train near Pont de Neuilly
 
The current North Woolwich station building
 
A replica of the Tom Thumb locomotive
 
ET40-35 locomotive in Laskowice Pomorskie, Poland