Portal:Trains/Did you know/January 2017

January 2017

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A section of the Birkenhead Dock Branch at Beaufort Road in 2013
 
Bidston station in 2007
 
Bex–Villars–Bretaye trams at Bex station in 2010
 
People view a stock car of the Better Farming Train at a station stop in 1920
 
The green line platform at Berri-UQAM station in 2009
 
Bridge piers of the former Bermuda Railway in 2007
  • ...that the initial cost of construction and rolling stock purchase for the 21.7-mile long (34.9 km) Bermuda Railway was about B$40 million (adjusted for inflation to dollars as of 2008), which made it one of the most expensive rail lines built, at a cost-per-mile of B$2 million?
 
A U-Bahn platform at Berlin Friedrichstraße station in 1956
  • ...that during the Cold War, despite being wholly located in East Berlin, all of Berlin Friedrichstraße station's underground facilities were only accessible for passengers from the western sectors as a transfer station, or to access the border crossing at the ground level?
 
Platform at Bergenline Avenue station in 2009
 
Recovering the streetcar in Boston after the accident
 
A Belmond British Pullman train at Victoria station in 2004
 
A train at Belgrave station in 2006
 
A train leaving Beijing station in 1959
 
Beeston station in 2005 just after platform reconstruction work
 
The Bedford Park platform in 2011
 
The Brooklyn bound platform at Beach 67th Street station in 2013
 
Bayreuth Altstadt station in 1987
 
The upper platform at Bay station in 2014
  • ...that although the Lower Bay platform at Toronto Transit Commission's Bay station was closed in 1966, the tracks leading to it are now used to train new operators, to move trains between lines, for platform-surface experiments, and to allow filming in the subway without disrupting public service?
 
Trains at Oberammergau station, Bavaria, in 1905
 
A section of baulk road track
 
Semaphore signal towers at Barnetby in 2003
 
A pair of District Line trains at Monument station in 2014
 
One of the roundhouses at the Martinsburg shop complex in 1970