Portal:Trains/Did you know/September 2021

September 2021

 * ...that four different instances of Berlin station in Connecticut have been destroyed by fires?


 * ...that proposals for a Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel in the greater New York City region have been proposed as early as the 1890s by Pennsylvania Railroad?


 * ...that as of late 2020, only 17.5% of the entire Croatian Railways network allows for speeds over 100 km/h?


 * ...that the landowners whose land was used in 1894 for Crianlarich railway station in Scotland turned down the offer of having all the proceeds from the two station tea-rooms in perpetuity?


 * ...that a two year long closure of the Crailsheim–Heilbronn railway to rebuild it for use as line S4 of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn is estimated to have saved Deutsche Bahn about €4 million?


 * ...that Greater Cleveland RTA's Coventry station was constructed in 1913 by Standard Oil Company of Ohio, and it included two gasoline pumps along westbound Shaker Boulevard?


 * ...that the station building for Cottbus Hauptbahnhof was located between the tracks as an "island station" (Inselbahnhof) from its opening in 1867 until the late 1970s?


 * ...that the new diesel multiple unit trains built by CSR for use by Corredores Ferroviarios could not enter service until all of the station platforms on the San Martín Line were rebuilt to accommodate them?