Portal:Trains/Did you know/August 2019

August 2019

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Portrait of George Stephenson
  • ...that George Stephenson's conservative views on the capabilities of locomotives meant he favoured circuitous routes and civil engineering that were more costly than his successors thought necessary?
 
One of the U-Bahn platforms at Stephansplatz station in 2008
 
Class 33-200 no. 33-212 leading a train in 1970
 
Peterborough station sigh in 2017
 
An early Stephenson-designed locomotive circa 1814
 
The platforms and footbridge at Stanlow and Thornton station in 2012
 
A 1Co type truck on a class 32-000 locomotive
 
Leland Stanford in the 1870s
 
The preserved 1911-built Stanford, Kentucky, station building in 2008
 
A London Underground train at Stamford Brook station in 2014
 
South African Class 31-000 number 31-028 at Bellville, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, in 2010
 
PRASA Class Afro 4000 number 4012 at Table Bay Harbour in 2015
 
Amtrak's St. Albans station in 1987
 
The extra-wide platform of St James station in 2017 with the two center track areas filled in
 
SAR Class 20 locomotive circa 1935
 
A First Great Western train on the St Ives Bay Line in July 2012
  • ...that the St Ives Bay Line, which opened in 1877, was the last new 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge passenger railway to be constructed in England?
 
Drawing of the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway bridge over the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
 
First Great Western's 150122 calls at St Erth with a Penzance to Taunton service in July 2012
 
Class 14A locomotive number 1911 pulling a passenger train in 1980
 
USA class locomotive No. 30073 at Eastleigh MPD in August 1966
 
First Great Western 43185 with a train for London Paddingotn passed under Network Rail's prototype plastic footbridge which was installed to replace an old iron structure in 2008
 
The Badger in 2014
 
A South African Railways Class 13 locomotive
 
35018 British India Line at Long Preston station in April 2018
 
Two sets of 3SUB trains and two extra unpowered cars in 1928