Portal:Trains/Did you know/September 2020

September 2020

 * ...that the AREX (Airport Railroad Express) project was launched as South Korea's first build-operate-transfer (BOT) franchise?


 * ...that at the time of Archway tube station's construction in 1907, then known as Highgate station, the first cable car in Europe operated non-stop up Highgate Hill to the village from outside the Archway Tavern?


 * ...that in the 1930s, the largest turntable on the Victorian Railways network was installed at Ararat railway station to accommodate new H class 4-8-4 steam locomotives?


 * ...that Appledore railway station in Kent, England, is officially referred to as "Appledore (Kent)" by National Rail, despite the closure of the other Appledore station in Devon in 1917?


 * ...that the original Apperley Bridge railway station opened in July 1846 much like an infill station because the Leeds and Bradford Railway opened on 30 June 1846 with no intermediate stations?


 * ...that the original plans for Ankara Tren Garı in Turkey were met with criticism from many architects, as its construction would include demolition of several historic buildings within the grounds?


 * ...that John D. Rockefeller had planned to take the New York Express from Cleveland on December 18, 1867, but because he arrived at the station late, he missed the train that would that day be involved in the Angola Horror by only a few minutes?


 * ...that according to local lore, Anerley railway station was named by a local landowner who, when asked in 1839 for the landmark by which the station would be known, replied "Mine is the annerly hoose"?


 * ...that Anderson Regional Transportation Center, in Woburn, Massachusetts, was built on the Industri-Plex Superfund site, a former chemical and glue manufacturing facility?


 * ...that installation of Amtrak's 60 Hz traction power system in the Boston Terminal Area had to be performed while over 250 MBTA commuter trains and 20 Amtrak trains operated through the area daily?


 * ...that the Amtrak Standard Stations Program specified a station design that could be easily expanded for anticipated higher ridership?


 * ...that after plans were formed for an Amsterdam Metro line to IJburg, a short tunnel was constructed eastwards from Centraal Station; but when the plans changed, the tunnel was abandoned and may be repurposed as part of a chocolate museum?


 * ...that the Amiens Gun, a railway gun that was captured by the Australian Imperial Force during World War I and returned to Australia as a war trophy, was originally mounted in the battleship SMS Hessen?


 * ...that the A60 stock ordered by London Underground for the electrification of the line between Rickmansworth and Amersham in 1960, is named after Amersham?


 * ...that the imprisonment of the American Railway Union's leadership following the 1894 Pullman Strike, only the second strike called by the union, led to the union's rapid disbandment?


 * ...that American Car and Foundry Company, which built the first all-steel passenger car in the world in 1904, was created from the 1899 merger of thirteen smaller railroad car manufacturers?


 * ...that in 1931 in response to competition from trams, the Altrincham Line, which became part of Manchester Metrolink in 1991, was electrified using the 1,500 volt DC overhead system?


 * ...that the Hamburg-Altona–Kiel railway, one of the first railways in Germany, was the first railway built in Denmark or its dependencies at the time, and first to reach the Baltic Sea?


 * ...that since four lines leave Altenbeken station to the east and one line leaves to the west, the station in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is also known as the Fünffingerbahnhof (five fingers station)?


 * ...that due to the cooperation within the Czech Integrated rescue system (Integrovaný záchranný systém), all the injured from the 2008 Studénka train wreck were in the hospitals within two hours of the accident?


 * ...that GO Transit's Allandale Waterfront station was built on a burial site of the Huron indigenous peoples?


 * ...that the sole known surviving station infrastructure of the former Algoma Eastern Railway is the Willisville passenger shelter, which was relocated to private property and is in use as a shed?


 * ...that the Algiers Metro opening in 2011 made Algiers only the second capital city in Africa (after Cairo) to have a metro system?


 * ...that the original passenger terminal at Alexandria Union Station, a one-story brick building completed in 1905, is still used as the main station building?