Portal:Trains/Did you know/November 2021

November 2021

 * ...that one of the quarries from which stone was cut for the Settle–Carlisle line's Dent Head Viaduct was located almost underneath the viaduct?


 * ...that the former Wabash Railroad's Delmar Boulevard station in St. Louis, Missouri, was a popular interchange for Wabash passengers, accounting for up to 40% of all Wabash boardings in the city?


 * ...that the Delhi Airport Metro Express line has the first airline check-in facility outside an airport in South Asia?


 * ...that when the swing bridge operated by the Delaware Coast Line Railroad over the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal was condemned in 2016, three tank cars became stranded on one side and had to be disassembled and trucked out?


 * ...that passenger trains have served DeKalb station in Illinois from its construction in 1891 until the day before Amtrak assumed operation of most U.S. intercity passenger services in 1971?


 * ...that the first diesel multiple unit built in China, the Dongfeng DMU used an engine derived from the Kharkiv model V-2, the engine used in the T-34?


 * ...that introduction of Deutsche Bahn's Class 628 diesel multiple unit trains was delayed for four years after successful test and demonstration runs in 1974?


 * ...that the Decauville railway at Exposition Universelle, which operated for only six months in 1889, is reported to have carried 6,342,446 visitors?


 * ...that despite incorporating high-speed rail technology from French, Japanese and Swedish designs in 1999, China Railway's DDJ1 design did not prove successful for high-speed rail in China?


 * ...that the original plan for the DC Streetcar would have had diesel multiple unit cars operating on previously abandoned CSX railway tracks?


 * ...that DB Class 218 diesel-hydraulic locomotive number 218 473 was temporarily painted in a dark blue "King Ludwig" livery, sponsored by model train manufacturer Märklin?


 * ...that DB Cargo UK was founded in 1995 as North & South Railways, owned by a consortium headed by Wisconsin Central?


 * ...that camping coaches have been available for rent at Dawlish Warren railway station intermittently since 1935?