Portal:Trains/Did you know/March 2008

March 2008

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Leeds tramcar 399 in operation in 2005
 
JR Transportation Museum before its closure in 2006
 
The Van Noy hotel in 1912 next to the depot in Newport, Arkansas
 
An 0-4-6 locomotive using the Engerth design of articulation
 
12¼ inch gauge Sherpa at Barmouth Ferry
  • ...that the Fairbourne Railway in Wales has operated four different gauges since opening in 1895 namely: 2 ft (610 mm), 18 in (457 mm), 15 in (381 mm) and 12+14 in (311 mm) including a period of dual gauge (15 and 18 inches) operation during the 1920s?
 
The station at Stiens in 1974
 
Exterior of Eugene, Oregon, train depot
 
Australian diesel locomotive XRB 561 at the South Dynon motive power centre, Melbourne
 
Talyllyn Railway Number 4 "Edward Thomas" and passenger cars at Tywyn Wharf
 
An LVS-2005 type tram, the newest equipment class in the Saint Petersburg network
  • ...that the system of tramways in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was once the largest tram network in the world, consisting of about 340 kilometres (210 mi) of unduplicated track in late 1980s?
 
The Poughkeepsie Bridge soon after it was taken out of service
 
A T class locomotive in Melbourne
 
Nishi-Ōyama Station; the post says the southernmost (conventional) railway station in Japan
 
First-generation Type B light rail vehicles from both Cologne and Bonn
  • ...that the Stadtbahnwagen B light rail vehicles were designed in the 1970s to be capable of driving though tighter curves than the cars in service on the Rhine-Ruhr network based on the recently completed tunnel of what would become Cologne Stadtbahn in Germany?
 
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Interior of a BS type carriage. V/Line, Victoria, Australia
  • ...that the last five S type carriages still in use by V/Line in Australia were retired in July 2006, but owing to a boom in patronage they were re-introduced to service as a dedicated train set on the Geelong line from late September 2007?
 
A steam locomotive of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway built by SLM
 
Lahn bridge near Limburg an der Lahn on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line
 
Stocksmoor station on the Penistone Line in 2006
 
The interior of an N type carriage