Portal:Trains/Did you know/July 2017

July 2017

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An Eccles Line tram in 2005
  • ...that upon its opening in December 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair, praised the Manchester Metrolink Eccles Line as "exactly the type of scheme needed to solve the transport problems of the metropolitan areas of the country"?
 
An MRT train at Aljunied station in 2006
 
A London Overground train at Crystal Palace station on the East London line extension opening day, 23 May 2010
 
Former LNER 2-6-0 locomotive number 3442, 'The Great Marquess', approaches bridge 16 at Bury on the East Lancashire Railway in 2008
 
Morrinsville station on the East Coast Main Trunk in 1902
 
An East Bay Electric Lines train in 1911
 
The Eagle Mountain Railroad's disused maintenance shed and interchange yard at Ferrum, California, in 2006
 
A Melbourne E-class tram at St. Kilda in 2016
 
A train at Kashar station in 2015
 
A Durango & Silverton train at Silverton in 2012
 
The preserved Duluth Depot building in 2010
  • ...that many local materials were used in the construction of the French Norman-style Duluth Depot building, which was completed in 1892, including granite, sandstone, and yellow brick?
 
Duffws station circa 1900
 
Dining car of the Duffield Bank Railway in 1898
 
A freight train at Duckmanton South Junction in 1954
 
A brick-lined tunnel on the Driving Creek Railway in 2004
 
Preserved Saxon class IV K locomotive at the Dresden Transport Museum in 2005
 
A locomotive of the Dreamworld Railway in 2008
 
DR 18 201 in Hersbruck, Germany, in 2007
 
A Downeaster train passes the Ballardvale MBTA station in 2013
  • ...that in fiscal year 2008, the Downeaster regional passenger train service in Maine was Amtrak's fastest-growing service, with ridership up 22.9% from the previous year, and in fiscal 2011, ridership topped 500,000 for the first time?
 
A BNSF Railway double-stack train in West Kingman Canyon, Arizona, in 2006
 
The Dollis Brook Viaduct in 2009
 
SP 3100 in preservation at Orange Empire Railway Museum in 2005
 
Newbury station circa 1906
 
A DFW Skylink train in 2008