Portal:Trains/Did you know/March 2013

March 2013

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A Z-TER train at Hennebont station in 2011
 
A Yurikamome train in 2006
 
Yokogawa station facade in 2008
  • ...that soon after its opening in 1897 as part of the Sanyō Railway, Yokogawa Station, in Hiroshima, Japan, also became a terminal for the first public bus service in Japan in 1905?
 
The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad's Brewster yard in 1910
 
Wakkanai station and marker noting the northernmost point on the railway in 2012
 
William Kissam Vanderbilt
 
The facade of Universidad station on the Monterrey Metro in 2007
  • ...that Universidad station on the Monterrey Metro in Mexico served as the terminus of Line 2 from the station's opening on October 31, 2007, until stage two of the Line 2 expansion was completed on October 1, 2008, and Sendero became the new terminus?
 
A plan drawing of a US Army Transportation Corps S100 class locomotive, a type used in France
 
Sapporo station in 2004
 
A Toei 12-000 class train used on the Oedo Line in 2007
 
A section of The Great Train Story layout in 2008
 
An E4 series Shinkansen train used in Tanigawa service at Kumagaya Station in 2007
 
A Hida limited express train on the Takayama Main Line
 
Tagokura Station entrance in 2010
 
A preserved Swing Door EMU train in 2007
 
Worthy Streator circa 1890
 
John Spreckels in 1901
 
Class GB no. 1650 at Voorbaai in 1997
  • ...that after the first South African Railways Class GB 2-6-2+2-6-2 Garratt was placed in service in 1921 working passenger trains on the Natal South Coast line, it proved to be a successful locomotive, having good riding qualities and flexibility on light track with poor ballasting and many curves of 300 ft (91 m) radius, which led to a second order of six more locomotives of the class to be placed in service in 1924?
 
Class 5E1 locomotive E1114 at Capital Park, Pretoria, in Rovos Rail livery in 2009
 
SAR 879 at Oranjerivier, Cape Province, in 1979
 
Preserved X 2426 in 1995
 
A SEPTA Silverliner III making a stop at the Cornwells Heights station on the R7 Trenton Line in 2010
  • ...that the Silverliner name, which refers to a series of EMU cars used in the Philadelphia area since 1958, came from the classes' shiny stainless steel body shell when they were introduced, and the cars made such an impression that the name has since been applied to all subsequent MU classes purchased by SEPTA for the Regional Rail services?