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[edit] Suggestions

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Did you know...

• ...that Swedish mining company LKAB's IORE locomotives, used for transporting iron ore, are so named because IORE is an acronym of "iron ore", as well as an intentional close-match of the name carried by the fictional donkey Eeyore (Swedish: Ior)?

Zzrbiker (talk) 10:29, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the Plac Wilsona (en: Wilson Square) station on the Warsaw Metro recently won a Metro award for being the "Best New Station"?

Zzrbiker (talk) 10:53, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the only locomotive of Charles Fairburn's design to emerge during his reign as London, Midland and Scottish Railway Chief Mechanical Engineer was the LMS Fairburn 2-6-4T; Fairburn dying from a heart attack in 1945 after just a year as CME?

Zzrbiker (talk) 13:08, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, the original Japanese Shinkansen line, goes through Japan's three largest metropolitan areas and is the most heavily travelled of all Shinkansen routes, carrying a total 4.16 billion passengers in its first 40 years?

Zzrbiker (talk) 13:46, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

• ...that Denmark's Little Belt Bridge (da: Gamle Lillebæltsbro) was built without the benefit of mass machinery; molds both for the piles and each end of the bridge were first constructed of wood and later manually filled with cement from buckets?

Zzrbiker (talk) 14:16, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

• ...that 15 of the V/Line N class diesel-electric locomotives were built using surplus parts from a cancelled program to rebuild 1952-era B class streamliner locomotives into the EMD 645-powered A class?

Zzrbiker (talk) 09:50, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

• ...that as well as becoming in 1934 the first steam locomotive to be officially recorded as reaching 100 mph (160.9 km/h), London and North Eastern Railway Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman set another record in 1989 by travelling 442 miles (711 km) non-stop, the longest such run by a steam locomotive ever recorded?

Zzrbiker (talk) 17:54, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

• ...that

[edit] For a later date

The following suggestions may not be appropriate due to recent news events. Either the fact is noted in the news event or it is still too soon after the event occurred to list the fact in the DYK section as well.

• ...that Harold Clapp's "fiendish efficiency" in improving Victorian Railways' train reliability was credited with losing Melbourne commuters "another excuse for being late for work in the mornings"?

Was a Template:Did you know fact on 2008-05-16 - Zzrbiker (talk) 22:50, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the first live television broadcast viewed on a moving train was on October 7, 1948, when passengers on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Marylander saw the second game of the 1948 World Series? Main page DYK on 2008-05-27. Slambo (Speak) 15:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
  

• ...that the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, one of London's early underground "tube" railway lines, was built with finance raised by American Charles Yerkes? Main page DYK on 2008-06-03. Slambo (Speak) 18:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)