Portal:Trains/Did you know/October 2019

October 2019

 * ...that the special Royal Hobart Show trains which ended in 1978 were the last Tasmanian Government Railways passenger trains to be run in Tasmania?


 * ...that since express trains on the Taoyuan Airport MRT line are optimized for airline passengers, flight information display systems are installed at express stops along the line?


 * ...that the former Tampa Southern Railroad line to Fort Ogden, Florida, part of which is now the right-of-way for Desoto County Road 761 frequently served as a shortcut for passenger trains traveling from Tampa to Fort Myers and Naples?


 * ...that the railway lines at Tambaram railway station were among the first in Chennai to be electrified?


 * ...that trains on the Tamar Valley Line in Cornwall heading towards Gunnislake must collect the branch train staff at St Budeaux Victoria Road as the line is operated on the one train working system?


 * ...that when the parallel standard gauge line was built though Tallarook railway station in 1961, it cut right though the middle of the station, with three gauge crossings provided between the broad gauge main line and the sidings on the other side?


 * ...that the Tait wooden-bodied Electric Multiple Unit trains that operated on the suburban railway network of Melbourne were built before electrification and designed to be retrofitted for electric operation?


 * ...that when the Taff Vale Railway opened in 1840, the line included a 0.5 mi section at Quakers Yard with gradients of 1 in 19 and 1 in 22 that was operated with 50 hp stationary winding engines?


 * ...that the T. F. Green Airport station on the Northeast Corridor in Warwick, Rhode Island, makes it possible to move between T. F. Green and Logan International airports in about two hours via rail?


 * ...that with the opening of the first phase of Sydney Metro in May 2019, Sydney became the first Australian city to realise a fully automated metro system?


 * ...that South African Railways' experimental Class FC 2-6-2+2-6-2 locomotive was designed to compare the performance and maintenance requirements of the modified Fairlie to that of a Garratt, in particular to the Class GC 2-6-2+2-6-2?


 * ...that the right-of-way for the current railway line at Sydenham railway station in London was originally opened in 1809 as the Grand Surrey Canal?


 * ...that Swindon Works may have been sited based on the location where Isambard Kingdom Brunel dropped a sandwich?


 * ...that by providing a track for independent goods hauliers to use their own horses and wagons, the Surrey Iron Railway was operated as a public toll railway?


 * ...that South African Railways ' Class ES electric locomotives were nicknamed Studebakers since the two long hoods either side of the cab were likened to a 1947 Studebaker Commander Business Coupe?


 * ...that EMD's GT26CW-2 diesel-electric locomotive type, derived from the SD40-2 design for export, has been used in Iran, Israel, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, South Korea, Turkey and Yugoslavia?


 * ...that within about a year of being renamed from Baybrook Junction, in 1908 Sunshine railway station in Melbourne was the scene of the worst train crash in Victorian railway history, the Sunshine train disaster?


 * ...that Amtrak's Sunset Limited is the oldest named train in the United States, having been first introduced in 1894 by Southern Pacific Railroad and transferred to Amtrak operation in 1971?