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August 2016

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Two 32-000 class locomotives lead a passenger train in 2007
 
LNWR engine No.2053 'Greater Britain'
 
Diagram of a 4-4-4-4 arrangement
 
TTC streetcars undergoing maintenance at Roncesvalles Carhouse in 2011
 
A Red Flag 1 locomotive at Sinanju Station in 2012
 
A South West Trains class 158 "Express Sprinter" departing Eastleigh station in January 2015
  • ...that a train can be 'on time' according to the Public Performance Measure, but still late enough for passengers to miss their connections?
 
A portion of the original Portage Bridge in 1864
 
Helsinki Tram at Senaatintori station in November 2008
 
SNCB 12.004 at Namur station in 1986
 
A conductor and brakeman in a freight train caboose in 1943
 
Preserved Brigadelok 99.4.084, now outside the railway Museum, Belgrade
  • ...that the Ohrid line in present-day Macedonia was built as part of a military railway during Bulgarian occupation and so was built to the Bulgarian 600 mm (1 ft 11+58 in) Feldbahn standards, rather than the 760 mm (2 ft 5+1516 in) Bosnian gauge of the Austro-Hungarian railways that would later become so well known as part of narrow gauge railways in Yugoslavia?
 
Oakleigh Park cutting in June 2016
 
NGR Havelock as Hairy Mary
 
Facade of Newtown Tram Depot in 2013
 
A Nazaré Funicular car in 2010
  • ...that the Nazaré Funicular in Portugal eased travel along a steep incline of loose sand where nobility traveled seated on "carpets, that were pulled at the corners, along with their servants, safe and composed"?
 
A preserved EMD E5 like the one involved in the Naperville accident
 
An MS 61 train at Rueil-Malmaison in 2007
 
Mintlaw Viaduct soon after its construction in 1912