...that the initial cost of construction and
rolling stock purchase for the 21.7-mile long (34.9 km) Bermuda Railway was about
B$40 million (adjusted for inflation to dollars as of 2008), which made it one of the most expensive rail lines built, at a cost-per-mile of B$2 million?
...that during the
Cold War, despite being wholly located in
East Berlin, all of Berlin Friedrichstraße station's underground facilities were only accessible for passengers from the western sectors as a transfer station, or to access the border crossing at the ground level?
...that the Bayreuth Altstadt–Kulmbach railway in the
Bavarian province of
Upper Franconia was known colloquially as the Thurnauer Bockela (which roughly translates as "Little Thurnau Goat") due to the rough ride of trains on the line?
...that although the Lower Bay
platform at
Toronto Transit Commission's Bay station was closed in 1966, the tracks leading to it are now used to train new operators, to move trains between lines, for platform-surface experiments, and to allow filming in the subway without disrupting public service?