Portal:Trains/Did you know/March 2007

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[edit] March 2007

NMBS/SNCB trains in Antwerp-Central
  • ...that in 2005 the National Railway Company of Belgium was split into three parts: Infrabel to maintain the infrastructure, NMBS/SNCB to manage train operations, and NMBS/SNCB-Holding to own and coordinate the other two?
Map of Thailand rail lines
Moffat Tunnel under construction
William Wordsworth
Victorian Goldfields Railway
CN Tower
Kalka-Shimla Railway train traveling toward Shimla in 2000
Andrew Vivian
A Ma On Shan Rail train in Hong Kong
GO Transit cab control car with the CN Tower in the background
  • ...that since it began operating in the greater Toronto, Canada, area in May 1967, GO Transit, has carried more than 1 billion passengers?
Thirumayilai station in Chennai
Changing wheels of the Trans-Mongolian railway at the Mongolia-China border
VR X32 modified to burn pulverised brown coal
The Empire State Express takes on water from a track pan in 1905
Cornish Riviera Express circa 1910
Aftermath of a boiler explosion circa 1850
  • ...that parts of a steam locomotive's firebox in contact with full steam pressure have to be kept covered with water to prevent them from overheating and weakening in a way that could cause a boiler explosion?
Railway Rivals board showing the United States map
The Mormon Rocks
A bank engine assisting an express up the Lickey Incline in 1955
  • ...that bank engines, also called helper engines, are sometimes added to trains that require more power or traction to climb a grade (or bank)?
William Dargan bridge on the Luas Green Line
A Bombardier CX-100 train at South View LRT Station
The Goldfields Railway at the Waikino terminus in 2005
An Austro-Hungarian armoured train of 1915
The approach to the Hell Gate Bridge
Locomotives receiving maintenance at Crewe Works
Two 400-class Redhen railcars working a Belair to Adelaide local train in 1990
Volos station in 1990
John Bull circa 1893
A covered hopper owned and operated by Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad
End of track at Thurso


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