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...that Denmark's Little Belt Bridge (da: Gamle Lillebæltsbro) was built without the benefit of mass machinery, and molds both for the piles and each end of the bridge were first constructed of wood and later manually filled with cement from buckets?
...that the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, the original Japanese Shinkansen line, goes through Japan's three largest metropolitan areas and is the most heavily traveled of all Shinkansen routes, carrying a total 4.16 billion passengers in its first 40 years?
...that the only original locomotive design of Charles Fairburn to emerge during the year that he served as Chief Mechanical Engineer for London, Midland and Scottish Railway before his death in 1945 was the LMS Fairburn 2-6-4T?
...that the Plac Wilsona (Wilson Square) station on the Warsaw Metro in Poland was selected as the Metro Award recipient for the "Best New Station" in 2008?

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