... that one of
Poland's PKP class ET40 locomotives, designed for heavy freight haulage and built with a maximum design speed of 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph), was modified for 160 km/h (100 mph) high speed passenger service?
...that the streamlined bulldog nose was a distinctive feature of a number of
GM EMD locomotive models built over a 31 year period, from the original
EMD F-unit of 1939 until the
EMD AT26C of 1970?
...that the Railway Clearing House was an organisation set up to manage the allocation of revenue collected by numerous
pre-grouping railway companies in the
United Kingdom from fares charged for passengers and goods travelling over the lines of more than one company?
...that until
India's Konkan Railway started its operations in 1998, the two important port cities
Mangalore and
Mumbai were not directly connected by the railway network?
...that an A unit is a
locomotive (generally a
diesel or
electric locomotive) equipped with a driving cab or crew compartment and the
control system to control other locomotives in a
multiple unit, making it able to be the lead unit in a
consist of several locomotives controlled from a single position?
...that the DB Schienenbus fleet of
railbuses, of which 1,492 were built between 1950 and 1971, have been decommissioned by operator
Deutsche Bahn but many of the vehicles were sold to new owners as far afield as
Luxembourg,
Turkey and
Cuba?
...that articulated cars,
rail vehicles composed of a number of smaller, lighter cars which are semi-permanently attached to each other and which share common
trucks, save on the total number of wheels and trucks, reducing initial cost, weight, noise, vibration and maintenance expenses?
...that during the 19th and early 20th century in the
United Kingdom, the absolute block signalling system was used to facilitate the safe operation of a railway by preventing more than one
train from occupying a defined section of route at the same time on
double or multiple lines where use of each line is assigned a direction of travel?
...that the Central Railway in
India, covering a large part of the state of
Maharashtra and parts of North-Eastern
Karnataka and Southern
Madhya Pradesh, includes the first passenger railway line in India, which opened from Bombay to
Thane on April 16, 1853?
...that Ghana Railway Corporation, parts of which began operation in 1898 under the Gold Coast Civil Service, was formed in 1976 when the railway operations were separated from the Ghana Railway & Ports Authority?
...that RFFSA, (
Portuguese: Rede Ferroviária Federal S.A.) the former state-owned national railway company of
Brazil, was created in 1957 through the merger of 18 separate railway companies and work to separate and privatize it again began in 1999?
...that the Ligne de Sceaux, a railway line in
Paris, was originally built with very sharp curves and used as a testbed for a complex early vehicle
articulation system that was rendered obsolete by the invention of the
bogie?
...that the Kintetsu Utsube Line's status as one of only four 762 mm (2 ft 6 in)
gauge lines in
Japan makes it a popular attraction to Japanese
railfans?
...that Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado, the national railway of
Chile, spent
US$1 billion in 2003-05 to increase capacity on commuter networks and improved long-distance services?