Portal:Trains/Did you know/December 2014

December 2014

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Preserved illuminated car 9 of the Manx Electric Railway at Derby Castle Terminus in 2009
 
Builder's photo of The Great Bear in 1908
 
The tracks and platforms at Cottesloe station in 2005
 
CGR 4th Class 4-6-0TT no. M65 (265) at Cradock, c. 1890
 
DLR and Jubilee Line trains at Canning Town station in March 2014
 
TransAdelaide railcars speed through Bowden, South Australia, in 2005
 
Preserved DB Class 10 locomotive No. 001 in Hersbruck, Germany, in 2007
 
Beersheba Turkish Railway Station building in 2009
 
Diagram showing how the Arnoux system articulates axles on coupled cars
 
Aerial view of the 1971 derailment
 
The former Tunbridge Wells West station building in 2008
 
The tracks and platforms at Warrington Bank Quay station in 2014
 
The Mets – Willets Point station, during the 2007 U.S. Open
 
A locomotive of Série 9020, at Livração station on the Tâmega line in May 1996
  • ...that the Strategic Transport Plan, published by the Portuguese Government in October 2011, showed that the Tâmega line required the highest level of subsidy (at 2.50 per passenger per kilometre) of any railway in Portugal?
 
10000 series set 10101 at Shinkiba depot in 2006
 
Map of the Kirkcudbright Railway in 1864
 
The former Swakopmund station in 1992
  • ...that before the 600 mm (1 ft 11+58 in) gauge Swakopmund–Windhoek line in present-day Namibia was built in 1897, the journey from Swakopmund to Windhoek took ten days, but the railway shortened the duration to two days?
 
Shin-Tosu station, part of a narrow gauge section of the Kyushu Shinkansen, under construction in 2007
 
NF5 (formerly W53) preserved at Pine Creek, Northern Territory, in 2005
 
SAR 33-025 at Bellville Loco, Cape Town, in 2009
 
The second type of Heilmann steam-electric locomotive, built in 1897
 
Silver Mountain station building in 1910
 
Shimofukawa Station in 2005
 
India Point bridge swing span from Fox Point Park looking east in 1997
 
Schöna railway station in 2009