...that the £410,000 price at which British Rail valued the Ilfracombe branch line in 1974 in an attempt to recoup funds to offset the deficit that the line produced while in service was a major factor in preventing the line's preservation?
A tram between Bondy and Remise à Jorelle during the pre-inaugural trials in 2006
...that plans announced in 2015 to convert the at-grade Igualada station in Catalonia, Spain, to an underground station will remove the last level crossing in the city?
IÉ locomotive number 223 pulls the 'Enterprise' service near Cloghogue in 2006
River Street bridge at the end of Hyde Park station in 2012
...that in the late 1840s, "Kenny's Bridge" (at today's River Street) in Boston, Massachusetts, was an unofficial Boston and Providence Railroad station stop that eventually grew to become Hyde Park station?
A car of the Huntsville Hospital Tram System on the line in 2012
...that the combined 22,996-foot long (7,009 m) Huey P. Long Bridge and connected rail viaduct has been inaccurately described as the longest rail bridge in the U.S.?
1910 advertisement for the Hudson River Tubes showing the Hudson Terminal buildings
...that by 1914, passenger volume at the Hudson Terminal, which opened in 1909, had reached 30,535,500 annually, then nearly doubled by 1922, with 59,221,354 passengers that year?
The preserved HSR 350x train in Uiwang in 2015
...that by February 2008, South Korea's experimental HSR-350x train had traveled 207,000 km (129,000 mi), but only in test runs?
The tracks and platforms at Hoylake station in 2013
...that during the Open Golf Championship tournaments in 2006, 2012 and 2014, passenger services terminated at Hoylake railway station to allow competitors to safely cross the tracks from the practice course on one side to the championship course on the other?
...that since its reopening in 1981, passenger traffic at Honeybourne railway station has steadily increased, with an estimated total for 2014–15 at more than 56,000?
The tracks and platforms at Homai station in 2014
...that Homai railway station on Auckland's Southern Line was named using the Māori word for 'gift', homai, because several local landowners donated parcels of land and money for the station's construction?
Holyhead station tracks and platforms in 1993
...that passenger ships berthed in the inner harbour next to Platform 1 of Holyhead railway station until the port was re-developed?
A Holmenkolbanen train at Nationaltheatret station in 1928
...that construction of the Common Tunnel by Holmenkolbanen in Oslo had to stop in October 1914 after about thirty properties had received massive damage from the construction, the disputes from which were not fully settled until 1925?
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