...that in the original design for
SNCF's BB 60000 class, the locomotives were to be powered with an
MTU engine, as those engines were used in
BB69400 and
BB75000 locomotives and had a good performance, but the MTU engine was replaced with one from
Caterpillar due to financial reasons?
...that Sandsfoot Castle Halt, opened in July 1909 as part of a scheme that saw several halts opened on the
GWR and other railways to counter road competition, and closed with the branch in 1952, remains as a timber
platform on the Rodwell Trail?
...that in the 1888 Borki train disaster, believed to have been caused by dangerous vibrations set up by
double-headingsteam locomotives and a train length beyond the railroad's safety limitations,
TsarAlexander III is reported to have held the remains of the collapsed
dining car roof on his shoulders as his children evacuated?
...that the Chao Chow and Swatow Railway in
China ceased operations in 1937 when spreading
Japanese hostilities prompted the
Ministry of Railways to order that this railway and several other lines should be dismantled as part of the Nationalist Government's "strategic retreat" to the interior of China?
...that in anticipation for the second phase of construction on the Millennium Line in
Vancouver, an extension from Lougheed Mall to Coquitlam, switches were installed to the east of
Lougheed Town Centre Station and a third platform was roughed-in but the extension was canceled following a change in provincial government?
...that of
Deutsche Bundesbahn's 942 original Class V 60diesel locomotives built between 1956 and 1964, around 400 were still working for the
Deutsche Bahn in 2004, several of which have since ended up in private or industrial railways in Germany and elsewhere, as well as the state railways in
Turkey, the former
Yugoslavia (e.g. the Croatian Railways
HŽ series 2133) and
Norway (17 engines as
NSB Di 5)?
...that the
Southern Railway's U1 class three cylinder
2-6-0 mogul
steam locomotives in the
United Kingdom featured an improved variation of the
Gresley conjugated valve gear designed and patented by
Harold Holcroft, driven from the combination lever rather than the valve spindle of the outside
valve gear, thus immune to variations in valve events brought about by heat expansion of the valve spindles and flexing of the conjugation levers when in heavy use?
...that the Mexican Railway, incorporated in
London in 1864 as the Imperial Mexican Railway and completed in 1873, remained independent of the
government-owned
Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (National Railways of Mexico) until the government gained control in 1946 and merged the property in 1959?
...that although the first prototypes were
electric locomotives, subsequent production of the Prima locomotives by
Alstom have been primarily
diesel variants?
...that the Hellfire Passcutting on the infamous
Burma Railway was built as a cutting rather than a tunnel as construction could take place at all points along its length simultaneously, despite the excess effort required by the Allied
POWs and
Malayan labourers forced to build it?
...that although the Sri Lanka Railway was initially built to transport goods such as
coffee and
tea for export, with time and population growth passenger traffic increased and since the 1960s has overtaken freight as the main source of revenue?
...that although
Swissmechanical engineerAnatole Mallet is recognised as the inventor of the first successful
compound locomotive system and later developed an
articulated compound locomotive with a rigid chassis at the rear and an articulated front driving
truck, the term "
Mallet locomotive" is also used to describe simple expansion articulated locomotives, even if not strictly correct?
...that in the original design for
SNCF's BB 60000 class, the locomotives were to be powered with an
MTU engine, as those engines were used in
BB69400 and
BB75000 locomotives and had a good performance, but the MTU engine was replaced with one from
Caterpillar due to financial reasons?
...that Sandsfoot Castle Halt, opened in July 1909 as part of a scheme that saw several halts opened on the
GWR and other railways to counter road competition, and closed with the branch in 1952, remains as a timber
platform on the Rodwell Trail?
...that in the 1888 Borki train disaster, believed to have been caused by dangerous vibrations set up by
double-headingsteam locomotives and a train length beyond the railroad's safety limitations,
TsarAlexander III is reported to have held the remains of the collapsed
dining car roof on his shoulders as his children evacuated?
...that the Chao Chow and Swatow Railway in
China ceased operations in 1937 when spreading
Japanese hostilities prompted the
Ministry of Railways to order that this railway and several other lines should be dismantled as part of the Nationalist Government's "strategic retreat" to the interior of China?
...that in anticipation for the second phase of construction on the Millennium Line in
Vancouver, an extension from Lougheed Mall to Coquitlam, switches were installed to the east of
Lougheed Town Centre Station and a third platform was roughed-in but the extension was canceled following a change in provincial government?
...that of
Deutsche Bundesbahn's 942 original Class V 60diesel locomotives built between 1956 and 1964, around 400 were still working for the
Deutsche Bahn in 2004, several of which have since ended up in private or industrial railways in Germany and elsewhere, as well as the state railways in
Turkey, the former
Yugoslavia (e.g. the Croatian Railways
HŽ series 2133) and
Norway (17 engines as
NSB Di 5)?
...that the
Southern Railway's U1 class three cylinder
2-6-0 mogul
steam locomotives in the
United Kingdom featured an improved variation of the
Gresley conjugated valve gear designed and patented by
Harold Holcroft, driven from the combination lever rather than the valve spindle of the outside
valve gear, thus immune to variations in valve events brought about by heat expansion of the valve spindles and flexing of the conjugation levers when in heavy use?
...that the Mexican Railway, incorporated in
London in 1864 as the Imperial Mexican Railway and completed in 1873, remained independent of the
government-owned
Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (National Railways of Mexico) until the government gained control in 1946 and merged the property in 1959?
...that although the first prototypes were
electric locomotives, subsequent production of the Prima locomotives by
Alstom have been primarily
diesel variants?
...that the Hellfire Passcutting on the infamous
Burma Railway was built as a cutting rather than a tunnel as construction could take place at all points along its length simultaneously, despite the excess effort required by the Allied
POWs and
Malayan labourers forced to build it?
...that although the Sri Lanka Railway was initially built to transport goods such as
coffee and
tea for export, with time and population growth passenger traffic increased and since the 1960s has overtaken freight as the main source of revenue?
...that although
Swissmechanical engineerAnatole Mallet is recognised as the inventor of the first successful
compound locomotive system and later developed an
articulated compound locomotive with a rigid chassis at the rear and an articulated front driving
truck, the term "
Mallet locomotive" is also used to describe simple expansion articulated locomotives, even if not strictly correct?