Portal:Trains/Did you know/November 2011

November 2011

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The tracks and main building of Lahti station in 2006
 
46762, the Wirral Railway survivor, at Preston in 1950
 
The tracks of Krishnarajapuram station at sunrise in March 2011
 
Krasnoyarsk Bridge as viewed from the left bank of the river in 2007
 
Kokura Station with the monorail tracks visible in 2008
 
Knutsford railway station in 2010
 
Knox & Kane 58 pulling an excursion train in 1990
 
Matheran Railway No.740 Photograph taken at Pages Park Station on the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway in 2005
 
Kishi station in 2010
 
Former London, Chatham & Dover R1 class 0-4-4T (designed by William Kirtley) No. 1706 at London Bridge station in 1948
 
The track and platforms at Kilkenny station in 2005
 
Proposed route of the Khunjerab Railway
  • ...that although feasibility studies have been conducted and construction proposals have been sought for the proposed Khunjerab Railway connecting Havelian, Pakistan, and Kashgar, China, and the section from Kashgar to Hotan opened for freight service in December 2010, completion of the line is uncertain due to criticism and financial concerns in Pakistan and political questions from India?
 
Karelian Trains Class Sm6 "Allegro" at Helsinki Central railway station before its first commercial journey to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2010
 
Kami-noge Station in 2008
 
Kakhovskaya station in 2006
 
Jonggak station signs in 2007
  • ...that trains on Seoul Subway's Line 1 do not stop at Jonggak Station on New Year's Day when the bell ceremony (Jeyaeui Jong Tajongsik) is held at Boshingak for which the station is named because the area is so crowded with tens of thousands of Seoulites that avoiding the stop avoids potential accidents?
 
The James River and Kanawha Canal in 1865
 
Isaida Station building in 2006
 
Indian Railways WAG-9 class electric locomotive no 31179 pauses at Agra Fort railway station, at the head of a heavily laden eastbound ore train in 2008
 
Anne-Marie Idrac in 2009
  • ...that since succeeding Louis Gallois as head of the SNCF in 2006, Anne-Marie Idrac was involved in the development of TGV lines at a European dimension, to the relaunch of regional transportation, and to the regeneration of the network for RFF, and to the rectification of the fret situation?
 
Aftermath of the Hugstetten rail disaster in 1882
  • ...that following the Hugstetten rail disaster in which 64 people were killed and some 230 were seriously injured on the railway line between Freiburg im Breisgau and Breisach am Rhein, Germany, in 1882, many passengers refused to board trains pulled by the locomotive involved in the accident and many landowners refused to allow the locomotive to pass over their territory?
 
The tracks and platforms at Howth station in 2011
 
Korea Train Express system map as of October 2011 with the Honam line sown in red