Portal:Trains/Did you know/February 2019

February 2019

 * ...that as of fiscal year 2014, New Jersey Transit's diesel tram-train light rail River Line is exceeding weekday ridership estimates by almost 65%?


 * ...that Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad's C-16 class 2-8-0 steam locomotive number 223 was damaged in fires in 1892, 1905 and 2006?


 * ...that Rickmansworth is one of few locations on London Underground's Metropolitan line where train drivers are based and remains a changeover point for drivers on the line?


 * ...that Great Western Railway (GWR) briefly ran a service from to Richmond via the Hammersmith & City Railway (now the Hammersmith & City line) in 1870?


 * ...that Richmond and Oakland Coliseum stations are the only two direct transfer points between BART and Amtrak?


 * ...that Richmond Hill and Penny Bridge stations on Long Island Rail Road's Montauk Branch had just one daily rider each at the time of their closure?


 * ...that in 1864, the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad had 118 slaves and 78 paid employees to work the railroad, but after the American Civil War, the railroad only had paid employees?


 * ...that high maintenance cost estimates for structures including the Ribblehead Viaduct on the Settle–Carlisle line led to British Rail proposing to close the line in the 1980s?


 * ...that monthly religious services were held in the waiting room at Ribblehead railway station accompanied by a harmonium installed in the 1870s concealed behind a billboard?


 * ...that the cars used on the Rheingold passenger train in the 1930s were the most technically advanced the DRG had at that time?


 * ...that the 35 ft 0-10-0T steam locomotive Reuben Wells was the most powerful locomotive in the world when it was built in 1868?


 * ...that Regional Eurostar services were proposed to operate Eurostar trains from Paris and Brussels to locations in the United Kingdom beyond London using Class 373/2 trainsets?


 * ...that the private passenger train operator RegioJet was created as a subsidiary of Student Agency, which was formed to deal with mediating au-pair stays for students from the Czech Republic?


 * ...that there is a Platform 0 at Redhill railway station?


 * ...that the Cleveland, Ohio, RTA Red Line 1968 extension to West Park and its connection to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport was the first airport rail link in North America?


 * ...that the four Reading Company T-1 class 4-8-4 steam locomotives used on the Iron Horse Rambles excursion trains in the 1960s are the only four of the class that were preserved?


 * ...that part of Reading railway station's 1989-built concourse is on the site of the west end frontage of the demolished Reading Southern railway station opened by South Eastern Railway in 1855?


 * ...that the name of the newly constructed Raleigh Union Station in North Carolina pays homage to the former Union Depot, which was commonly referred to as Union Station?


 * ...that unlike a typical railroad switch that uses tapered points to align routes, a stub switch uses movable rails with square-cut ends to align with the rails of one of the diverging routes?


 * ...that since United States Railroad Retirement Board serves U.S. railroad workers and their families, and administers retirement, survivor, unemployment, and sickness benefits, railroad workers do not participate in the U.S. Social Security program?


 * ...that in British and Australian English, the term "railcar" is used in reference to a train consisting of a single coach (carriage, car), with a driver's cab at one or both ends?