Portal:Trains/Did you know/November 2012

November 2012

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Map of the railways around Ballymena in 1906
 
Mount Waverley station on Melbourne's Glen Waverley line in 2006
 
Agawa Canyon station as seen from the Lookout Trail observation platform in 2004
 
JR Shikoku KiHa 32 series DMU at Ekawasaki Station in 2007
 
A Willamette locomotive on static display at the Fort Missoula Museum, Montana, in 2008
 
A caricature of Edward Watkin published in Vanity Fair in 1875
 
Westrail S2106 in 2008
 
Siemens Vectron at the InnoTrans 2010 in Berlin
  • ...that the Vectron Bo'Bo' multipurpose locomotive built by Siemens Mobility and introduced at Innotrans in 2010 is designed to be easily reconfigurable to a variety of country or work specific configurations with pre-designed mounting points for track equipment, modular safety equipment cabinets in the locomotive body and a driver's desk designed for a wide variety of information equipment?
 
A Class 130 train at the gauge changing mechanism at Lleida, Spain, in 2008
  • ...that in order to avoid a break of gauge between railway systems at borders, some trains, like the RENFE Class 130, are equipped with variable gauge axles that are adjusted by gauge changing equipment that can unlock, move, support and re-lock the adjustable axles while the train traverses it?
 
A westbound Conrail train at Gallitzin Tunnels in 1993
 
Former Toyo Rapid Railway 1000 series EMU at Jakarta Kota Station in 2011
 
The Tulip Viaduct in 2006
 
Lyon Metro at Croix Paquet station in 2008
 
British Rail No. 37 026 with a train reporting number at Liverpool Street station in 1976
 
A JR East E4 series train at Takasaki on the Max Toki 321 service in 2006
 
The northern portal of Clayton Tunnel in 2007
 
The main building of Terminal Station, now the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel, in 2010
  • ...that after the last train to serve Terminal Station in Chattanooga, Tennessee, departed in 1970, the station complex, which was the largest station in the city, was converted to a convention center, hotel and resort with restaurants and shops?
 
Tai Wo Hau Station platform in 2005
 
A Super Sōya limited express train on the Sōya Main Line in 2006
  • ...that the Sōya Main Line, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido), was originally built beginning in the late 1890s as a link line between mainland Japan and the then Japanese northern frontier Karafuto (southern half of Sakhalin Island) and is now the northernmost railway line in Japan?
 
The former Sulitjelma Line station at Sjønstå in 2006
  • ...that the Sulitjelma Line, originally constructed in 1891 as a 750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in) gauge line to connect Sjønstå and Fossen in Nordland county, Norway, was the first railway line to be built in Northern Norway, but the line was closed in 1972 and its right-of-way is now used by Norwegian County Road 830?
 
The St. Joseph Swing Bridge in 2007