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2019

... that the 1988 opening of New York City's Archer Avenue lines, expected to lessen congestion, ended up slashing ridership at Parsons Boulevard station by half?
... that since modernisation work in 2016, trains can only call at Pilning railway station when travelling eastbound?

Front view of Rye station

... that both Rye railway station (pictured) and its signal box are Grade II listed?
... that the Archer Avenue subway took 16 years to finish, was completed at a cost of nearly five times its original budget, and was cut back to a fraction of its original length?
... that the upper level of New York's 63rd Street Tunnel took 20 years to open, while the lower level is still under construction after nearly half a century?

Bangs's monument at Rosehill Cemetery

... that George Bangs's cemetery memorial features a mail car (pictured), carved to scale, commemorating his leadership of the Railway Mail Service?
... that Bush Terminal, an intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex in New York City, was once so large that it had its own judicial system?

Empress Elisabeth Bridge

... that the Empress Elisabeth Bridge (pictured), a chain bridge over the Elbe that opened in 1855, was named in honor of the newly married Elisabeth of Austria?
... that the Palembang Light Rail Transit, which opened last year, is the first operational light-rail system in Indonesia?
... that the PATH train system was sold to allow the first World Trade Center in New York City to be built?

A streetcar from Milan in the 1987 Historic Trolley Festival

... that the San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival featured streetcars from cities in Australia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, England, Germany, and Italy (pictured)?
... that the Northwestern Pacific Railroad interurban lines were the first use of third rail electrification in California?
... that the C train, described as the "least loved of New York City subway lines", still uses subway cars that date to the 1960s?
... that the Uptown Hudson Tubes in New York City were constructed with sharp curves to avoid the demolition of preexisting basements?
... that in 2004 the British Rail Class 458 trains were so unreliable that their operator considered replacing them all, but by 2012 they had become the most reliable fleet in Britain?
... that the JFK Express subway service in New York City never actually went to JFK Airport?
... that Portland's NS Line opened in 2001 as the first newly built streetcar line in the United States in 50 years to use modern vehicles?

A Blue Line train on the Steel Bridge

... that Portland's MAX Blue Line (train pictured) was built as a result of freeway revolts in the 1970s?
... that the WTC Cortlandt subway station in New York City, closed for 17 years after the September 11 attacks, cost $181 million to rebuild?
... that the Touristic Eastern Express makes two-hour-long stops between Ankara and Kars to allow passengers to visit historic and natural attractions?

King's Cross Metropolitan in 1862

... that King's Cross Thameslink railway station, then known as King's Cross Metropolitan (pictured), was one of the initial seven stations on London's first underground line?
... that the Mayan Train was approved in a public referendum that garnered only a one percent voter turnout?
... that Boston Manor tube station once featured a Tiffany lampshade?
... that 1,900 people in Seattle rode the city's slut on a daily basis?
... that there were no roads leading to Becontree tube station when it first opened?
... that the walls of Balboa Park station have "an apparently infinite variety" of patterns?
... that the 2003 Melbourne runaway train avoided a disastrous collision by less than a second?
... that in 1905, Montclair Heights station was the site of an outbreak of glanders that led to the euthanizing of seven horses?
... that Portland's MAX Red Line light rail, initially planned decades into the future, was built ahead of other projects because of an unsolicited proposal by Bechtel?
... that New York City's Grand Central Terminal was built after a deadly crash between two trains in the Park Avenue Tunnel in 1902?
... that during construction of New York City's Sixth Avenue subway line in the 1930s, workers had to build around various utilities and tunnels, including an existing railroad tunnel and an elevated line?
... that fares on Tacoma Link are covered by a subsidy from local businesses?
... that for 25 years, pedestrians in Hudson Heights, New York City, paid a subway fare to use the elevators in the 190th Street station to avoid climbing an eight-story hill?
... that construction on the Thessaloniki Metro triggered the largest-ever archaeological dig in northern Greece, unearthing more than 300,000 individual artefacts?
... that local residents had to wait ten years for step-free access at Newbury Park tube station?
... that after a nearby railroad station burned down, 12 horses pulled the old Caldwell station on rafters to the site to replace it?

Kansas City Union Station

... that Kansas City Union Station (pictured) was constructed using cement manufactured by a mill in Yocemento?

Lucy Branham in her prison uniform

... that American suffragists arrested for protesting at the White House later toured the country on the Prison Special while dressed in their prison uniforms (Lucy Branham pictured)?