Portal:Trains/Did you know/May 2006

May, 2006

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A crocodile on SNCF
  • ...that Le Crocodile is the name of an electrical contact placed on the track between the rails to provide warnings in the locomotive cab of SNCF trains?
  • ...that the trucks on a railroad crane often include traction motors so that the crane is able to move itself along the track at a work site?
 
Union Pacific 844 on an excursion run
 
Follow the Leader
 
A Sirio tram in Athens
 
Trans-Siberian Railway map
 
Eurostar train
 
ČKD Tatra-T3 tram car in Kiev
 
An NJ Desiro DMU at the Herregårdsparken halt between Hjørring and Hirtshals
  • ...that Nordjyske Jernbaner (NJ) operates trains over the former Hjørring Privatbaner (HP) and Skagensbanen (SB) railway lines in Denmark?
 
Track with concrete ties
 
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Gare du Charonne Voyageurs, aka "La Fléche d'Or Café", October 1998
 
An MMTS train at the Necklace Road station
  • ...that the equipment cost of the MMTS Hyderabad system in India was shared by the railway and the Andhra Pradesh state government in a first ever endeavour of its kind?
 
preserved BR52-8177-9 in Leipzig in 2003
 
Goderich-Exeter Railway locomotive 177
 
London Underground train emerging from a tunnel
 
One of the two Electroliners, preserved at IRM
 
A boxpok driver
  • ...that boxpok driving wheels were designed as a single cast metal wheel to allow for better counterbalancing on locomotives built for high speed service?
 
Cergy – Saint-Christophe Station
  • ...that the Cergy – Saint-Christophe station building includes a large glass structure placed above the RER's A3 line at street level and features a metal and glass cylinder with Europe's largest clock?
 
The westernmost point of the Lanxin railway in Alataw Pass
 
Okinawa City Monorail at Akamine station
 
Side view rendering of a pair of Centipedes