...that the
Württemberg state assembly granted 3.8 million
guilders in the early 1840s for construction of the Württemberg Central Railway, while the state's total annual budget for the financial years 1836–39 had amounted to 9.3 million guilders?
...that when it opened in 1888, the 1.69-kilometre long (1 mi 4 ch) Woy Woy Tunnel was the longest railway tunnel in Australia?
...that the two older Woodhead Tunnels, opened in 1845 and 1853, were proposed as key components of the main east–west route of the
HighSpeed UK route?
...that Granville Woods, inventor of the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, was the first American of African ancestry to be a mechanical and electrical engineer after the
Civil War?
...that although the
platforms at Wollaston station are elevated, the station lobby and
faregates were actually situated several feet below street level?
...that since the
Fordpetrol engines and transmissions used to power the Wismar railbuses had five forward gears and one reverse gear, two were installed on each railbus?
...that the Winden–Karlsruhe railway's temporary bridge over the
river Rhine installed in 1947 remained in service until it was damaged by a shipwreck in 1987?