Portal:Trains/Did you know/March 2015

March 2015

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A Park Series car in operation on VIA Rail's Canadian in 2004
 
Ex-NER N8 0-6-2T at Hull Dairycotes Locomotive Depot in 1947
 
An MRT Blue Line train at SiLom Station in 2006
  • ...that within 30 minutes of its opening in July 2004, sightseers filled the MRT Blue Line system in Bangkok to its maximum capacity, but after the initial rush ridership has settled down to around 180,000 riders daily?
 
Melton station in 2006
 
VIA's Canadian at a station stop in Jasper in 2013
 
Lygten Station shortly after its construction in 1908
  • ...that Lygten Station in Denmark was built in 1906 quite a bit from the Copenhagen city center, but it was supposed to be temporary until the exact routing of the various new railways near Copenhagen that were in planning at the time had been finalized?
 
Track of the Leamside Line in 2009
 
Aftermath of the bombing of Kyōbashi Station in 1945
 
Kintetsu Ise-Shima Liner at Ujiyamada Station in 2008
 
JR East EV-E301 series battery EMU set V1 being recharged at Karasuyama Station in March 2014
 
Two UTA S Line streetcars at the 500 East stop in December 2013
  • ...that Utah Transit Authority's S Line began operations in 2013 using the same design of Siemens S70 trams as were already used on UTA's TRAX system, but Mayor Becker suggested that cars used could move "toward a more traditional streetcar design" as the S Line evolves?
 
Preserved JR East locomotive EF60-19 on an excursion train between Tsukuda and Iwamoto stations in 2008
 
A Howrah bound local train leaving Bandel station in 2011
 
The tracks and platforms at Blackpool Central station in 1959
 
A train of Cologne Stadtbahn's line 5 at Heumarkt station in April 2014
 
A Hankyu train passes in front of Takarazuka Grand Theater on the Imazu Line in 2003
 
The eastern entrance to Birmingham New Street station in 2009
 
Eketahuna station platform in 2008
 
A train at Devyatkino station in 2010
 
56115 on a railtour in 2004
 
The line 2 platforms of Cuauhtémoc station in 2007
 
Chengannur Railway Station platforms in February 2015
 
CN 89 operating on the Strasburg Railroad in 2010