Portal:Trains/Did you know/December 2020

December 2020

 * ...that S-Bahn and U-Bahn connections in Berlin at Hermannstraße station were planned as early as 1910 but weren't fully realized until 1996, after German reunification?


 * ...that in 1916, Zeppelin airships of the German Airship Naval Division conducted a bombing raid over the British Midlands near to but not damaging Great Northern Railway's Bennerley Viaduct?


 * ...that the former Great Northern Railway Bemidji station in Minnesota was the last depot commissioned by railroad magnate James J. Hill?


 * ...that in 1981 two daily TGV services between Paris and Geneva that passed through Bellegarde station were created, making Bellegarde-sur-Valserine the first town with less than 20,000 inhabitants to get a daily TGV link to Paris?


 * ...that the Bellarine Railway line, now operated as a heritage railway, is recognised as the oldest Victorian branch line still in operation?


 * ...that the street entrance to the former Great Central Railway Belgrave and Birstall railway station was bricked-up in the late 1970s to help reduce vandalism, and it was left in place into the 21st century?


 * ...that due to countless setbacks over several decades, construction of Belgrade Centre railway station, which opened in January 2016, has been called Skadar na Bojani, after the folk epic poem The Building of Skadar?


 * ...that Belgian railway light signals are designed to be seen by train drivers up to 2 km away, so they are equipped with lenses to focus light rays emitted by the bulb, which lessens their intensity when viewed from the side?


 * ...that the 2012 refurbishment of the Belfast–Derry line in Northern Ireland that included the installation of continuous welded rail resulted in a morning train reaching Derry before 9:00 am for the first time since NI Railways took control of the network in the 1960s?


 * ...that the lifts at Hainault tube station are the shallowest on the London Underground network, having a descent of just 18 in?


 * ...that although it uses the same right-of-way and rolling stock, the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad is not the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad?


 * ...that the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway crosses the longest and second-longest railway bridges in the world?


 * ...that fill material taken from the five tunnels of the Bayshore Cutoff was used to build the Visitacion or Bayshore Yard, Southern Pacific Railroad's classification yard near the city of Brisbane, California?


 * ...that the national border between Germany and the Czech Republic runs through the middle of the Bayerisch Eisenstein railway station building?


 * ...that although Montclair's transit village in New Jersey is mostly built at Bay Street station, the township also serves five other stations?


 * ...that Royal Bavarian State Railways ' Class S 3/6 was that railway's most numerous class of 4-6-2 steam locomotives, with production continuing into the Deutsche Reichsbahn era?