Portal:Trains/Did you know/June 2022

June 2022

The mosaic and platform at Flushing Avenue station in April 2021

• ...that in 1984, Pfizer installed four closed circuit TVs and talk-back boxes on the Flushing Avenue station platforms, monitoring them from the Pfizer plant security area one block away from the station?

TTC number 4403 on its first day of service in August 2014

• ...that excluding the Toronto Transit Commission's heritage collection of a few older streetcars, the TTC's entire active streetcar fleet consists of the Flexity Outlook?

The second abandoned Flax Bourton station building in 2011

• ...that the original Bourton station was the first station out of Bristol on the Great Western Railway's line until Bedminster opened in 1871?

Flamborough station in 1997

• ...that Flamborough railway station was located several miles away from Flamborough?

An RTD train at Fitzsimons station in 2017

• ...that the location of Denver-area RTD's Fitzsimons station was moved to prevent vibrations from affecting research equipment at the nearby University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus?

Somerville Highlands station on the Fitchburg Cutoff in 1907

• ...that William Robinson installed one of the first test applications of his track circuit signaling system on the Fitchburg Cutoff in Massachusetts in 1876?

Firsby station in 1968

• ...that the former Firsby railway station was served by two public houses, one of which doubled as the Firsby Railway Hotel?

The duelling pistols mosaic at Finsbury Park station in 2015

• ...that when the Victoria line was built, mosaics of duelling pistols were installed at Finsbury Park station due to a mistaken identification of Finsbury Park with Finsbury Fields?

A 7131 railcar at Cañuelas station in 1990

• ...that the 7131 class diesel multiple unit trains used in Argentina were nicknamed Chanchas (Spanish for Piggies)?

A steam locomotive driving wheel with its counterbalance plainly visible

• ...that William Fernihough presented the first published account of the mathematics and mechanics of steam locomotive driving wheel balancing one day before he was succeeded as locomotive superintendent for Eastern Counties Railway in 1845?

The level crossing adjacent to Feniton station in 2010

• ...that the barriers at the level crossing adjacent to Feniton railway station were operated from a panel within the station building until March 2012?

Goods wagons being shunted at Feltham marshalling yard in 1958

• ...that at its peak, Feltham marshalling yard on the Waterloo to Reading Line had 32 miles (51 km) of track?