... that one of Poland's PKP class ET40 locomotives, designed for heavy freight haulage and built with a maximum design speed of 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph), was modified for 160 km/h (100 mph) high speed passenger service?
An EMD FP7 locomotive, one of the American "bulldog noses"
...that the streamlined bulldog nose was a distinctive feature of a number of GM EMD locomotive models built over a 31 year period, from the original EMD F-unit of 1939 until the EMD AT26C of 1970?
Railway junction diagram produced by the Railway Clearing House
...that the Railway Clearing House was an organisation set up to manage the allocation of revenue collected by numerous pre-grouping railway companies in the United Kingdom from fares charged for passengers and goods travelling over the lines of more than one company?
Preserved Kristiania Sporveisselskab tram that was in service from 1913 to 1968
...that until India's Konkan Railway started its operations in 1998, the two important port cities Mangalore and Mumbai were not directly connected by the railway network?
An EMD FP9A owned by Mackenzie Northern Railway
...that an A unit is a locomotive (generally a diesel or electric locomotive) equipped with a driving cab or crew compartment and the control system to control other locomotives in a multiple unit, making it able to be the lead unit in a consist of several locomotives controlled from a single position?
...that the DB Schienenbus fleet of railbuses, of which 1,492 were built between 1950 and 1971, have been decommissioned by operator Deutsche Bahn but many of the vehicles were sold to new owners as far afield as Luxembourg, Turkey and Cuba?
Map of the Granville railway disaster, west of Sydney, Australia
...that articulated cars, rail vehicles composed of a number of smaller, lighter cars which are semi-permanently attached to each other and which share common trucks, save on the total number of wheels and trucks, reducing initial cost, weight, noise, vibration and maintenance expenses?
A block instrument set to its default position of "line blocked"
...that during the 19th and early 20th century in the United Kingdom, the absolute block signalling system was used to facilitate the safe operation of a railway by preventing more than one train from occupying a defined section of route at the same time on double or multiple lines where use of each line is assigned a direction of travel?
Central Railway headquarters at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai
...that the Central Railway in India, covering a large part of the state of Maharashtra and parts of North-Eastern Karnataka and Southern Madhya Pradesh, includes the first passenger railway line in India, which opened from Bombay to Thane on April 16, 1853?
Ghana Railways 1670 in Kumasi showing AAR couplings and air brakes
...that Ghana Railway Corporation, parts of which began operation in 1898 under the Gold Coast Civil Service, was formed in 1976 when the railway operations were separated from the Ghana Railway & Ports Authority?
The B&OCT Bascule Bridge, with that of the St. Charles Air Line RR in the background
...that RFFSA, (Portuguese: Rede Ferroviária Federal S.A.) the former state-owned national railway company of Brazil, was created in 1957 through the merger of 18 separate railway companies and work to separate and privatize it again began in 1999?
FS E464 series locomotive in Trieste, Italy, May 2008
Old ligne de Sceaux, between Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse and Boullay-les-Troux
...that the Ligne de Sceaux, a railway line in Paris, was originally built with very sharp curves and used as a testbed for a complex early vehicle articulation system that was rendered obsolete by the invention of the bogie?
Preserved 4200 Class no. 4247 on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
...that the Kintetsu Utsube Line's status as one of only four 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge lines in Japan makes it a popular attraction to Japanese railfans?
...that Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado, the national railway of Chile, spent US$1 billion in 2003-05 to increase capacity on commuter networks and improved long-distance services?
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