Jump to content

Portal:Trains/Did you know/September 2008

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

September 2008

[edit]
ET40-35 locomotive in Laskowice Pomorskie, Poland
ET40-35 locomotive in Laskowice Pomorskie, Poland
  • ... 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?
An EMD FP7 locomotive, one of the American "bulldog noses"
An EMD FP7 locomotive, one of the American "bulldog noses"
  • ...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?
Railway junction diagram produced by the Railway Clearing House
Railway junction diagram produced by the Railway Clearing House
  • ...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?
Preserved Kristiania Sporveisselskab tram that was in service from 1913 to 1968
Preserved Kristiania Sporveisselskab tram that was in service from 1913 to 1968
Barkur Railway station on the Konkan Railway
Barkur Railway station on the Konkan Railway
  • ...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?
An EMD FP9A owned by Mackenzie Northern Railway
An EMD FP9A owned by Mackenzie Northern Railway
Tornado, 8 August 2008
Tornado, 8 August 2008
Rail bus at the river Main in Frankfurt
Rail bus at the river Main in Frankfurt
Map of the Granville railway disaster, west of Sydney, Australia
Map of the Granville railway disaster, west of Sydney, Australia
DTTX 724681, a portion of a 5-unit container car
DTTX 724681, a portion of a 5-unit container car
  • ...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?
OR&L equipment preserved at Travel Town
OR&L equipment preserved at Travel Town
A block instrument set to its default position of "line blocked"
A block instrument set to its default position of "line blocked"
  • ...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?
Central Railway headquarters at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai
Central Railway headquarters at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai
Ghana Railways 1670 in Kumasi showing AAR couplings and air brakes
Ghana Railways 1670 in Kumasi showing AAR couplings and air brakes
  • ...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?
The B&OCT Bascule Bridge, with that of the St. Charles Air Line RR in the background
The B&OCT Bascule Bridge, with that of the St. Charles Air Line RR in the background
The Donghae Bukbu line as seen from the Reunification Observatory
The Donghae Bukbu line as seen from the Reunification Observatory
RFFSA locomotive 2049, a GE U5B, in 2004
RFFSA locomotive 2049, a GE U5B, in 2004
  • ...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?
FS E464 series locomotive in Trieste, Italy, May 2008
FS E464 series locomotive in Trieste, Italy, May 2008
Altoona Shops under Conrail ownership in 1988 (then known as Juniata Shops)
Altoona Shops under Conrail ownership in 1988 (then known as Juniata Shops)
Victorian Railways E class
Victorian Railways E class
Old ligne de Sceaux, between Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse and Boullay-les-Troux
Old ligne de Sceaux, between Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse and Boullay-les-Troux
  • ...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?
Preserved 4200 Class no. 4247 on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
Preserved 4200 Class no. 4247 on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
Drawing of a Jewett Car Company interurban car procured for the Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis Railway
Drawing of a Jewett Car Company interurban car procured for the Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis Railway
Kintetsu Railway type 260 train at Hinaga Station
Kintetsu Railway type 260 train at Hinaga Station
Claude Monet: Gare Saint Lazare, 1877
Claude Monet: Gare Saint Lazare, 1877
A freight train on Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano in Salta in 1993
A freight train on Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano in Salta in 1993
  • ...that the 10,841 km (6,736 mi) long 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 in) metre gauge gauge freight rail network of Belgrano Cargas in Argentina was built by the state-owned Ferrocarril Central Norte and the French-owned Ferrocarril Provincial de Santa Fe?
Quatama station
Quatama station
Metrotrén in the EFE's Alameda Station
Metrotrén in the EFE's Alameda Station