Portal:Trains/Did you know/February 2007

February 2007

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Dual gauge operations on the Stuttgart Stadtbahn
  • ...that dual gauge track can be used as an interim measure during a gauge conversion to allow trains to continue operating until the conversion is completed?
 
Helsinki Central railway station facade
 
RE service between Munich and Nuremberg
 
City Road station remnants
  • ...that the only visible surface level remnant of City Road tube station on the London Underground system following the station's closure in 1922 is a brick ventilation shaft that incorporates parts of the original station building above the site of the lift shaft and emergency staircase?
 
System map of Iranian railways
 
A train of the South Manchuria Railway
 
Preserved O&K steam locomotive
 
Preserved class 05 at Didcot Railway Centre
 
A mail hook on a preserved RPO in Illinois
 
Passengers waiting for the subway at Jernbanetorget
 
Dakar railway station
 
System map of Philippine National Railways
 
Basel Badischer Bahnhof facade
 
Spirit of Progress in 1938
  • ...that according to legend, Victorian Railways engineers went as far as road testing the new dining car on the Spirit of Progress before its introduction in 1937 by placing a full bowl of soup on one of the tables and checking that none spilt as the train took curves along the route at 70 mph (112 km/h)?
 
Ferromex system map
 
Hung Hom Station (Kowloon Station), Hong Kong
 
Stuttgart Rack Railway at the Marienplatz station
 
Drayton Park station entrance
 
Turkish rail network map
 
A doodlebug of the East Broad Top railroad
 
Malleco Viaduct in Chile
 
The station sign at Oshikado station in Japan
 
Berlin Friedrichstraße railway station
 
Indian Railways WAP-5 class locomotive
 
BMT cars on the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge in 1905
 
An Arriva Trains Wales Class 150/2 unit in Gloucester's Platform 3
  • ...that At 602.69 metres (1977 ft 4 in) Gloucester railway station has the longest railway platform in Great Britain due to a break-of-gauge between the Great Western Railway's 7 ft 0¼ in (2140 mm) gauge and London Midland and Scottish Railway's 4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) gauge tracks until 1892?