...that before Hanxi Changlong Station started operations on Guangzhou Metro's Line 3, the station was previously named "Hanxi Station" and "Changlong Station" successively, but local residents objected to the latter name as it favored the owners of the nearby Chime-Long Paradise and the station's current name was chosen as a compromise?
...that when the Grenoble tramway was initially opened in 1987, a system which has since been expanded to measure 35 kilometres (22 mi) long over four lines, Grenoble became the second French city to reintroduce trams, after Nantes?
...that two weeks before the Garrison train crash occurred in October 1897 in Garrison, New York, another instance of train 46, which was the scheduled train in the accident, had almost derailed near the same spot when a two-ton boulder was found on the tracks, with some believing it had been deliberately placed?
...that unlike other lines shut down by Japanese National Railways and JR Hokkaido, a successor company was established in 1989 to operate the Chihoku Line; the new company renamed the Chihoku Line to the Furusato Ginga Line ("Hometown Galaxy Line") and introduced new cars, continuing operations until 2006?
One of the bridges on the Forest Way trail in 2005
A specially-equipped TGV train making a 574 km/h record setting run in 2007
...that Faiveley Transport supplied the pantographs for the record-setting runs of TGV trains in 1981 (running at 380 km/h or 240 mph), 1990 (513.3 km/h or 318.9 mph) and 2007 (574.8 km/h or 357.2 mph)?
RFFSA MACOSA G22U #4392-6L pulling a passenger train in the Ferrovia Curitiba-Paranaguá line in 2008
...that EMD's G22 Seriesdiesel-electric locomotives, which were first introduced in 1968 to replace the aging G12 model, were the first model series to have a low nose as a standard option as well as high nose?
60163 Tornado hauls a charter train from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley in 2009; overhead lines were removed from the original photograph
...that the ethics of digital manipulation in railway photography, which is sometimes employed in the photography of steam locomotives remove anachronistic objects from the scene in order to portray a more authentic setting, are debated amongst railway enthusiasts as the manipulation allows the creation of images that may appear to be other than their actual subjects?
A 5000 class EMU train on the Daiyūzan Line circa 1993
A CityRail ticket from 2006 showing the Clearways project graphics
...that the CityRail Clearways Project in Australia is intended to be the next step in improving on-time performance after a new slower timetable was introduced in September 2005 as a response to the speed limit restrictions enforced after the 2003 Waterfall rail accident?
The former LSWR railway bridge over Little Petherick Creek on the Camel Trail near Padstow in 2009
...that there have been considerable efforts to convert the Camel Trail, a former railway right-of-way in Cornwall, United Kingdom, back into a railway, in order to allow it to carry china clay traffic again and to extend the Bodmin and Wenford Railway but they have so far been rejected citing the trail's use by the community and that many roads have been converted to one-way traffic since the trail opened?
...that the kanji characters for Ayashi Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, are the same characters as in the name Aiko given to the daughter of the Crown Prince of Japan, which led to a high demand for tickets from the station after her birth on December 1, 2001, with about 84,000 tickets purchased between December 7 and December 28?
Asansol station in 2008
...that the railway establishment surrounding what is now Asansol Junction in West Bengal. India, contributed substantially to the development and growth of the area by facilitating freight transportation to and from the growing industries and moving it off barges traveling the inconsistent waters of the Damodar River?
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