Portal:Trains/Did you know/January 2019

January 2019

 * ...that the railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world with the first locomotive-hauled public railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opening in 1825?


 * ...that the Rail Safety Act 2006 was the State of Victoria's first dedicated statute regulating the safety of rail operations in Victoria?


 * ...that although no plan was implemented until the late 1970s, the first proposal for rail electrification in Queensland was made in 1897 when the Chief Engineer of the Queensland Railways was sent to study electrified railways in Europe and America?


 * ...that Solid State Interlocking controlling a Radio Electronic Token Block system prevents the issue of any token permitting conflicting movements?


 * ...that in the 19th century, Great Northern Railway and North Eastern Railway on the East Coast and London and North Western Railway and Caledonian Railway on the West Coast participated in speed contests between London and Edinburgh that have come to be known as the "Race to the North"?


 * ...that New York City Subway's R10 cars, the first new cars built for the system after World War II, introduced dynamic braking, roller bearings, and replaced the air whistles used by earlier rolling stock with air horns?


 * ...that line R8 of Rodalies de Catalunya's Barcelona commuter rail service entirely bypasses Barcelona?


 * ...that the R Line is the only line in Denver's RTD rail system not serving downtown?


 * ...that the now closed and soon to be replaced parking garage above Quincy Center station in Massachusetts is the oldest anywhere on the MBTA system?


 * ...that Great Western Railway became the first railway company to employ push-pull operation when in 1904 they equipped carriages and 0-6-0 locomotives for the Brentford Branch Line as an experimental substitute for steam railcars?


 * ...that Los Angeles Metro Rail's Purple Line was originally branded as a branch of the Red Line?


 * ...that the Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum hopes to expand their gauge railway by restoring operations over a skew bridge crossing the Swanage Railway?


 * ...that stewards on Pullman trains in the United Kingdom were provided by the British Pullman Car Company?


 * ...that the Prussian state railways Class G 8 0-8-0 steam locomotive was the first superheated goods train locomotive type in Prussia?


 * ...that Promenade is the only station on Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system to have four separated stacked side platforms on their own levels?


 * ...that the building that houses the Baltimore Civil War Museum was built in 1849 as the head house of President Street Station, and is now the oldest surviving big-city railroad terminal in the United States?


 * ...that the 8.5 mi distance between Poughkeepsie station and the next nearest station on Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line is the longest distance between any two adjacent stations on any Metro-North main line?


 * ...that positive train control systems can help trains operate safely in dark territory, as well as help to improve fuel efficiency or locomotive diagnostics?


 * ...that as part of the MetroWest proposals, the Portishead Railway in Bristol, England, may be rebuilt and reopened as soon as 2020?


 * ...that the last service to run on the Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway in Ontario was a special passenger-only service to Toronto to bring well-wishers to the Royal Tour of 1939 by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth?


 * ...that following a fatal grade crossing accident, 28 of Pennsylvania Railroad's class P5 electric locomotives were modified with a body design similar to that of the GG1?