...that initially the maximum speed for Hokkaido Shinkansen trains through the
Seikan Tunnel in
Japan will be 140 km/h (87 mph) due to the risk of a
narrow gauge freight train traveling in the opposite direction being
derailed by the shockwave of air that moves ahead of
Shinkansen trains at higher speeds in tunnels?
...that when the
Tōkaidō Shinkansen and
Shin-Osaka Station opened in
Japan in 1964, the original plan was to close Higashi-Yodogawa Station situated only 0.7 km (0.43 mi) from Shin-Osaka in what was then a largely rural area, but neighborhood residents' objections succeeded in keeping the station open, and the distance between the two stations remains as the shortest distance between any two stations on
JR Kyoto Line or the
Tōkaidō Main Line?
...that in early
steam locomotive development in the 1830s and 1840s, the haycock boiler, which featured a prominently raised
firebox, incorporated the
steam dome into the firebox assembly, which itself was often highly decorated with polished
brass?
...that the Hanshin Main Line, the southernmost of three lines to connect
Osaka and
Kobe,
Japan, originally opened in 1905 as one of the oldest
interurban railways in Japan by using the Tram Act as the basis to construct a line competing with a
governmental line?
...that in an effort to encourage tourism, the Killarney Junction Railway, which was operated by the Great Southern and Western Railway, opened a hotel next to
Killarney station in 1854, which made it the first
railway-owned hotel in
Ireland and it is purported to be one of the first railway hotels in the World?