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Victorian Railways F class locmotive
Alphabet Route map
The facade of Southport Lord Street station in 2007
A train arrives at Viggbyholm on Roslagsbanan
Edward Beatty in 1942
A train working upgrade on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway
A TU2 locomotive in Irshava
  • ...that test runs of the 750 mm (2 ft 5½ in) gauge TU2 diesel locomotive in the Soviet Union showed the locomotive could attain a top speed of 76 km/h (47 mph), but the class was restricted to 50 km/h (31 mph) in service due to the condition of the tracks over which they were used?
A Litra ET-FT-ET trainset on the Kystbanen
  • ...that in the planning for the Kystbanen railway line in Denmark in the late 19th century, the Ministry of War wanted the line built as long as it wasn't built so close to the coast that it could be bombarded by a foreign naval fleet in Øresund, and as long as the railway could be removed quickly, while the Forestry Department didn't have any objections against the railway as long as not even a single tree was cut down?
The Soo Line High Bridge
  • ...that the 184-foot (56 m) high, 2,682-foot (817 m) long Soo Line High Bridge built in 1909 over the St. Croix River replaced an earlier bridge from 1884 that necessitated steep grades on either side of the river?
Jokioinen Museum Railway passenger train
Map of the proposed high-speed railway line in Argentina
ONCF train in Casablanca
Sri Lanka Railway train traveling from Badulla to Colombo
New rolling stock for Mumbai Suburban Railway's Western Line
  • ...that Mumbai Suburban Railway's Western Line in India carries about 2.6 million passengers per day, almost 43 percent of the total Mumbai suburban rail traffic, resulting in what is known as super-dense crush load of 14 to 16 standing passengers per square metre of floor space?
Romiley station
The northern facade of Rostock Hauptbahnhof
A Pennsylvania Railroad class K4s locomotive
  • ...that in 1916 the Pennsylvania Railroad began using the advertising slogan Standard Railroad of the World, which was meant to indicate that it was perceived as the standard to which all other railroads aspired?
Preserved 7100 class locomotive
A merry-go-round train hauled by a Class 66 locomotive
A 1989 replica of Saxonia
  • ...that the first steam locomotive built in Germany, an 0-4-2 assembled in 1838 and named Saxonia for the Leipzig-Dresden Eisenbahn, was based on the design of the English-built locomotive Comet, the first locomotive to operate on that line?
RailDriver product shot
NZR E66 soon after construction
Preston Road station facade
Map of the Riedbahn route connecting Frankfurt to Mannheim
Viaduct of the RER C in Issy-les-Moulineaux
Kew station in 1906
Quainton Road station in 2006
Aerial view of Hamburg Hauptbahnhof


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