Portal:Trains/Did you know/December 2019

December 2019

 * ...that track circuits to detect trains for signalling are designed for fail-safe operation to indicate the presence of a train when failures occur?


 * ...that the Toyama Light Rail Toyamakō Line is regarded as the first fully converted or constructed "light rail transit" (LRT) in Japan?


 * ...that in 2012 solar panels were installed on the canopy at Tower station in Tower, Minnesota, to provide electricity to the railroad cars and depot?


 * ...that site preparation for Cleveland Union Terminal in 1922, now Tower City Center, required the demolition of approximately 2,200 buildings?


 * ...that the unused engine house behind the eastbound platform at Totnes railway station was built to provide atmospheric power for the railway?


 * ...that one of the currently active proposals for a Uinta Basin Rail line uses a route surveyed in 1902 by the never finished Denver and Salt Lake Railroad?


 * ...that the former signal box at the south end of Torquay railway station in Devon, England, is now rented out for commercial use?


 * ...that the Toronto and Nipissing Railway, chartered in 1868 in Ontario, Canada, was the first public narrow-gauge railway in North America?


 * ...that the TOPS system purchased by British Rail in 1968, which led to the adoption of a uniform numbering system for rolling stock in Britain, was originally developed in a partnership of Southern Pacific Railroad, Stanford University and IBM?


 * ...that some British railways developed mechanical systems that enabled faster token handover, using catcher devices that could be extended from the locomotive cabside?


 * ...that Tobu Railway's Ogose Line was that company's first line to receive a CTC signalling system?