...that although the Jamaican Railway Corporation last ran a train in 1992 when services were abruptly ceased, it continues operations as lessor of
track, a provider of
locomotives and associated technical services for private freight operators on the 65 kilometres (40 mi) of the former 272-kilometre (169 mi) network still in use for freight haulage?
...that the
SNCF (French National Railways) Class BB 15000electric locomotive is a member of a family of locomotives sharing a common body shell nicknamed "Nez Cassé" (English: Broken Nose), a reference to the inclined cab window design that ironically is designed to save the driver from injury in a frontal crash?
...that although the Tokyo Subway makes up a small fraction of heavy rail
rapid transit in
Tokyo,
Japan, with 282 out of the city's 882 stations, it forms the world's busiest subway system in terms of ridership with nearly eight million passenger journeys every day?
...that in 1959 the operators of the Línea Urquiza in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, acquired 30
PCC streetcars, however they were too lightly-built to handle the heavy passenger loads and were all retired by the mid-1960s?
...that Queens Quay underground
streetcar station is the only station in
Toronto with a pedestrian crossing between
platforms at track level, requiring streetcars crossing the pedestrian walkway to stop and sound their gong before proceeding?
...that carpet railways, a
Victorian era form of
model railway in which a live
steam locomotive was run across the floor rather than on tracks, were known for
boiler explosions as well as numerous incidents of fires caused by the locomotive crashing into furniture and over-turning so that the burning fuel was spilled over the floor?
...that the interior design of Akademiya Nauk station on the
Minsk Metro in
Belarus includes detail touches such as pillars reveted with grey marble and punctuated by stainless steel insets, contrasting white marbled walls and grey granite floor, and large artworks in the
vestibules?
...that the 500 Series Shinkansen, originally built in the mid-1990s, was the first
Shinkansen train in
Japan to operate at a maximum speed of 300 km/h (190 mph) in regular passenger service?
...that
Penistone in
Yorkshire,
England had the misfortune of being the location of at least ten railway accidents during the latter years of the 19th and early years of the 20th centuries, gaining a reputation as possibly the worst
accident blackspot on Britain's railway network?
...that with a sixteen-car trainset able to carry a total of 1,634 seated passengers,
Japan's E4 Series Shinkansen is the highest-capacity
high-speed rail trainset in the world?
...that although the Jamaican Railway Corporation last ran a train in 1992 when services were abruptly ceased, it continues operations as lessor of
track, a provider of
locomotives and associated technical services for private freight operators on the 65 kilometres (40 mi) of the former 272-kilometre (169 mi) network still in use for freight haulage?
...that the
SNCF (French National Railways) Class BB 15000electric locomotive is a member of a family of locomotives sharing a common body shell nicknamed "Nez Cassé" (English: Broken Nose), a reference to the inclined cab window design that ironically is designed to save the driver from injury in a frontal crash?
...that although the Tokyo Subway makes up a small fraction of heavy rail
rapid transit in
Tokyo,
Japan, with 282 out of the city's 882 stations, it forms the world's busiest subway system in terms of ridership with nearly eight million passenger journeys every day?
...that in 1959 the operators of the Línea Urquiza in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, acquired 30
PCC streetcars, however they were too lightly-built to handle the heavy passenger loads and were all retired by the mid-1960s?
...that Queens Quay underground
streetcar station is the only station in
Toronto with a pedestrian crossing between
platforms at track level, requiring streetcars crossing the pedestrian walkway to stop and sound their gong before proceeding?
...that carpet railways, a
Victorian era form of
model railway in which a live
steam locomotive was run across the floor rather than on tracks, were known for
boiler explosions as well as numerous incidents of fires caused by the locomotive crashing into furniture and over-turning so that the burning fuel was spilled over the floor?
...that the interior design of Akademiya Nauk station on the
Minsk Metro in
Belarus includes detail touches such as pillars reveted with grey marble and punctuated by stainless steel insets, contrasting white marbled walls and grey granite floor, and large artworks in the
vestibules?
...that the 500 Series Shinkansen, originally built in the mid-1990s, was the first
Shinkansen train in
Japan to operate at a maximum speed of 300 km/h (190 mph) in regular passenger service?
...that
Penistone in
Yorkshire,
England had the misfortune of being the location of at least ten railway accidents during the latter years of the 19th and early years of the 20th centuries, gaining a reputation as possibly the worst
accident blackspot on Britain's railway network?
...that with a sixteen-car trainset able to carry a total of 1,634 seated passengers,
Japan's E4 Series Shinkansen is the highest-capacity
high-speed rail trainset in the world?