Portal:Trains/Did you know/June 2008
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[edit] June 2008
- ...that Advanced Rapid Transit, the current name given to a metro system manufactured by Bombardier Transportation, uses linear electromagnetic propulsion which removes the need for a motor with moving parts?
- ...that the London and North Eastern Railway Class U1, a solitary 2-8-0+0-8-2 Beyer-Garratt locomotive designed for banking coal trains over the steeply graded Worsborough Bank in South Yorkshire, was fitted with crew respirators due to the poor ventilation in the two tunnels on the bank?
- ...that Southern Pacific 4294, the last in a group of 20 locomotives that comprised Southern Pacific Railroad's AC-12 class of 4-8-8-2 cab forward locomotives and now preserved at the California State Railroad Museum, was the last new steam locomotive ordered by the Southern Pacific Railroad?
- ...that Kuala Lumpur's Ampang Line was the first railway system in Malaysia to adopt standard gauge as its rail gauge, in contrast to the metre gauge railway lines that span the country?
- ...that under its original plan the Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line (the first linear motor metro railway built in Japan) would have provided access to the Osaka prefectural government offices near Osaka Castle, however the presence of underground artifacts around the castle area made this plan impractical and the line was thus shifted farther south?
- ...that the Russian Railways VL10 (ru: ВЛ10) class electric locomotive, introduced in 1961, takes its class designation from the initials of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin?
- ...that the British Rail Class 55 'Deltic' express passenger locomotives take their name from the Napier Deltic 2-stroke uniflow opposed-piston high-speed diesel engine that powers them?
- ...that Swiss Federal Railways' origins date back to 20 February 1898, when the Swiss people agreed in a referendum to the creation of a state-owned railway company after the collapse of a number of private railway companies?
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