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July 2019

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Springwood station in 2012
 
Two trains at Springfield Union Station in 2008
 
A train at Springfield Central station in 2017
 
Samuel Spencer during his term as president of Southern Railway
 
The track side of Spartanburg station in 2005
  • ...that after a 1996 fire damaged the building, Spartanburg station was restored thanks to a 16-year-old who launched a crusade to save the station through letters, editorials and meetings with local politicians?
 
Class 10E locomotive number 10-044 at Klerksdorp, North West, South Africa, in 2007
 
A painting of Spa Road station in 1836
 
The disused Southwold Railway station at Halesworth in 1940
  • ...that in 1940, Southwold Council recommended to the Minister of Supply to confiscate the Southwold Railway assets for conversion into munitions?
 
Trains at Southport station in June 2012
 
SAR Class 7E2 Series 1 number E7173 at Swartkops in 2013
 
A train at Southfields station in 2008
 
A BNSF freight train on the Southern Transcon in California's Mojave Desert in 2007
  • ...that an average of almost 90 trains daily passed over the section between Belen and Clovis, New Mexico, of the Southern Transcon in 2006, with each train typically 6,000 to 8,000 feet (1,800 to 2,400 m) in length?
 
Steam locomotives being serviced at Southern Region's Eastleigh Works in 1964
 
Southern 1401 on display at the Smithsonian in 2014
 
Southern No. 21C18 'British India Line' pulls the 'Bournemouth Belle' departing Waterloo station in 1946
 
A Red Electric train at Front Street in Beaverton, Oregon
 
XC Trains Limited multiple unit number 221117 departs from Southampton Central station in January 2008
 
A Eurostar train running on third-rail power at Vauxhall station in 2008
 
Builder's photo of a Class Hd locomotive
  • ...that the leading and trailing carrying wheels of the Class Hd 2-8-2 steam locomotives were not mounted in separate bogies, but were radial axles resulting in a rigid wheelbase of 17 ft 1116 in (5,199 mm), with the leading wheels behind instead of ahead of the cylinders?
 
Trains at South San Francisco station demonstrating the hold out rule in July 2018
  • ...that due to the narrow platform width, trains serving South San Francisco station must follow the so-called "hold-out" rule (GCOR 6.30) which states that if a train is stopped for passengers, an approaching train in the opposite direction on the other track must wait outside the station?
 
SAR Class 7E1 number E7111 at Vryheid, Kwa-Zulu Natal, in 2007
  • ...that neither Hitachi nor Dorbyl allocated builder's numbers to the Class 7E1 locomotives they built for the SAR, but used the SAR unit numbers for their record keeping?
 
Thomas F. Woodlock in his office at the ICC in 1925