...that although the
London and North Eastern Railway's Class V22-6-2 locomotives were built for
mixed traffic use, they could almost match LNER's express passenger
4-6-2 Pacifics for sustained high speed running and were timed at speeds of up to 101.5 mph (163.3 km/h)?
...that although platform screen doors have been installed at stations to reduce the movement of air caused by the trains at they pass through the tunnels as well as to reduce
air conditioning costs for stations in warmer climates such as
Singapore, they also serve a safety purpose in preventing passengers falling onto the tracks or in front of an oncoming train?
...that the Tōkaidō Main Line, the busiest trunk line of
Japan Railway (JR), is paralleled by the high-speed
Tōkaidō Shinkansen line and other than certain overnight services there are now no passenger trains that operate over the entire length of the line?
...that Harold Clapp's "fiendish efficiency" in improving
Victorian Railways' train reliability in
Australia was credited with losing
Melbourne commuters "another excuse for being late for work in the mornings"?
...that Scharfenberg couplers have a distinct advantage over conventional AAR (Janney/Knuckle) automatic couplers as they also automatically connect and disconnect electrical and hydraulic systems, but their low maximum tonnage rating makes them unsuitable for heavy freight service?
...that
Barcelona Metro's Catalunya station in
Spain, built in 1926 as the terminus of Ferrocarril Metropolitano Transversal, boasted an underground shopping centre called Avinguda de la Llum until 1990?
...that as well as becoming in 1934 the first
steam locomotive to be officially recorded as reaching 100 mph (160.9 km/h),
London and North Eastern RailwayClass A3 4472 Flying Scotsman set another record in 1989 by traveling 442 miles (711 km) non-stop, the longest such run by a steam locomotive ever recorded?
...that
Denmark's Little Belt Bridge (da: Gamle Lillebæltsbro) was built without the benefit of mass machinery, and molds both for the piles and each end of the bridge were first constructed of wood and later manually filled with
cement from
buckets?
...that the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, the original
JapaneseShinkansen line, goes through Japan's three largest
metropolitan areas and is the most heavily traveled of all Shinkansen routes, carrying a total 4.16 billion passengers in its first 40 years?
...that the Plac Wilsona (Wilson Square) station on the
Warsaw Metro in
Poland was selected as the Metro Award recipient for the "Best New Station" in 2008?
...that
Swedish mining company
LKAB's IORE locomotives, used for transporting
iron ore, are so named because IORE is an
acronym of "iron ore", as well as an intentional close-match of the name carried by the fictional donkey
Eeyore (Swedish: Ior)?
...that Swiss Federal Railways' origins date back to 20 February 1898, when the
Swiss people agreed in a
referendum to the creation of a state-owned railway company after the collapse of a number of private railway companies?