Portal:Trains/Did you know/August 2022

August 2022

 * ...that upon the public unveiling of the first Frecciarossa 1000 train in 2013, it was hailed as being the fastest train to reach series production in Europe?


 * ...that since the Fraserburgh and St Combs Light Railway line was partly unfenced, the locomotives were fitted with cowcatchers, an arrangement rarely found in United Kingdom practice?


 * ...that although Washington Metro's Franconia–Springfield station was the 8th-most-used Metro station in Virginia as of 2016, its parking garage is the largest on the Metro system?


 * ...that upon its opening in 2008, the Fortescue railway, in Western Australia's Pilbara region, was the heaviest haul railway in the world?