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July 2008

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WAB 794 on its first excursion after restoration
 
LNER 4-6-0 Class B12 no. 61572 on the North Norfolk Railway
 
Preserved Haifa East station building at the Israel Railway Museum
 
Mala Rijeka Viaduct
 
An Australian-built G26C locomotive
 
E 18 24 and 31 during an exhibition in Weimar, Germany (2003)
 
XP2004 in the current CountryLink livery at Sydney Terminal
 
Railbus 79964 at York Railfest
 
Map of the Northeast Corridor
 
Tågkompaniet train type El16 24, Sundsvall, Sweden
 
Location of Sierra Leone in Africa
 
Class 323, no. 323209 waiting at Birmingham New Street
 
New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Julius Vogel
 
Narrow gauge diesel train Zagreb-Samobor
  • ...that Croatia's 760 mm (2 ft 5+1516 in) narrow gauge Samoborček railway between Zagreb and Samobor, closed in 1979 and later dismantled, is to be replaced with a new standard gauge line connecting to the Croatian Railways network?
 
Electric locomotive with "Sibelius" train (St. Petersburg, Russia - Helsinki, Finland)
 
Atmospheric Railway remnants at Didcot Railway Centre
 
Onehunga Branch, August 2004
 
Liverpool Road railway station, Manchester
 
TEDA Modern Guided Rail Tram, Tianjin
 
MF Storegut
 
Gerald and Betty Ford on a whistle stop tour in Michigan in 1976
  • ...that the open platform of an observation car was often used on whistle stop tours by those campaigning for public office to make speeches, or as a stage for famous personalities such as members of a royal family or film stars to greet well-wishers and fans during public tours?
 
Charles Yerkes
 
Marylander route map
 
Abandoned wooden trestle bridge on the Wonthaggi line at Kilcunda beach
  • ...that the former Wonthaggi railway line in Australia was built so rapidly that the 30-mile (48 km) line, authorised in December 1909, carried its first coal train in February 1910?
 
ADtranz DE2000 locomotive of Hellenic Railways Organization
 
New Orleans Union Station in 1900