...that in 1972 the location of Maarn railway station, which was originally opened in 1845 in the
Netherlands, was moved one kilometer to the east of its original location?
...that following the recreation of
Poland in 1918, the Lublin railway station building, which originally opened in 1877, was reconstructed in the 1920s to give it a more Polish style, as the original building looked like a typical station of the
Russian Empire?
...that in order to alleviate locomotive wheelslip, which is caused when the turning force applied to the
driving wheels greatly exceeds the opposing
friction force effected by the surface of the
rail, most
locomotives are fitted with
sandboxes so that sand or
Sandite can be dropped on the rails to improve adhesion?
...that the name "Little Dancer," the brand name of a series of
low-floor trams used in
Japan, is derived in part from the Japanese word dansa which translates as "bump" or "step" referring to the tram's low floor?
...that the Pravoberezhnaya Line of the
Saint Petersburg Metro, the shortest line in the system with the
stations featuring a modern design, was officially designated Line 4 in 1994, but the original name is still often used in informal context?
...that until its reconstruction in 2007, Laburnum railway station in a suburb of
Melbourne,
Australia, was known for having a sign reading "Toot Toot - drive slowly" under the railway bridge which led locals to often toot their horns in acknowledgement of the sign as a warning to oncoming traffic approaching the narrow underpass?
...that the Saku Railway in
Japan built the majority of what is now known as the Koumi Line as part of a plan for a railway network stretching from
Kōfu in the south to
Naoetsu and
Nagaoka in the north, linking up with the Fuji Minobe Railway to create a coast-to-coast rail line?
...that the last use of a
steam locomotive on a regularly scheduled revenue service in
New Zealand was on 26 October 1971, and the new Kingston Flyer heritage service began operating two months later on 21 December?
...that although Kellinghusenstraße station of the
Hamburg U-Bahn system in
Germany was opened in 1912 with four tracks, only the two outer tracks were initially used until 1914 when the line from Kellinghusenstraße to
Ohlsdorf was opened?
...that the Karawanken Tunnel crossing the
Austria-
Slovenia border under the
Rožca saddle, the fourth longest railway
tunnel in Austria and the longest in Slovenia, was opened on October 1, 1906, by
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and still sees more than 80 trains per day?
...that before the
Kyūshū Shinkansen opened in 2004, Kagoshima-Chūō Station, literally translated as Kagoshima Central Station, in
Japan, was originally known as Nishi-Kagoshima Station, which translates as West Kagoshima Station?
...that in 2002 all railway activities were moved out of the original Jyväskylä railway station buildings in
Finland to a new travel centre adjacent to the site, while the original buildings were preserved as part of the inventory of culturally significant areas of the
Finnish National Board of Antiquities?
...that the Jaipur Superfast Express, the second-fastest passenger train connecting
Mumbai and
Jaipur,
India, traverses the 1,159-kilometre (720 mi) long route in 18 hours with a maximum speed of 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph)?
...that on June 25, 1952, hours before the first scheduled train of the day, hundreds of protesters against the
Korean War who left a meeting at the
Osaka University campus thronged Ishibashi Station in
Ikeda, Osaka,
Japan, and forced the
station master to run a train to transport them to
Osaka in what has become known as the Suita Incident?
...that Interail was formed in 2002 as the interstate running arm of
Queensland Rail through the acquisition of the
standard gauge Northern Rivers Railroad in
New South Wales,
Australia, but since launch of the
QRNational brand in 2005, it is unknown how long the Interail brand will remain in use?
...that in the early 1990s Inekon Group, the parent company of Inekon Trams, a manufacturer of
trams located in the
Czech Republic, tried unsuccessfully to gain control of
ČKD, but some of ČKD's engineers were dissatisfied with the new owners and were subsequently hired by Inekon?
...that in the early years of the 20th century before
World War I, the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways company (KkStB) had taken over thirty smaller railway companies to become a practical
monopoly in rail transport, competing with only six other railway companies by the end of the Austrian Empire?
...that in 1972 the location of Maarn railway station, which was originally opened in 1845 in the
Netherlands, was moved one kilometer to the east of its original location?
...that following the recreation of
Poland in 1918, the Lublin railway station building, which originally opened in 1877, was reconstructed in the 1920s to give it a more Polish style, as the original building looked like a typical station of the
Russian Empire?
...that in order to alleviate locomotive wheelslip, which is caused when the turning force applied to the
driving wheels greatly exceeds the opposing
friction force effected by the surface of the
rail, most
locomotives are fitted with
sandboxes so that sand or
Sandite can be dropped on the rails to improve adhesion?
...that the name "Little Dancer," the brand name of a series of
low-floor trams used in
Japan, is derived in part from the Japanese word dansa which translates as "bump" or "step" referring to the tram's low floor?
...that the Pravoberezhnaya Line of the
Saint Petersburg Metro, the shortest line in the system with the
stations featuring a modern design, was officially designated Line 4 in 1994, but the original name is still often used in informal context?
...that until its reconstruction in 2007, Laburnum railway station in a suburb of
Melbourne,
Australia, was known for having a sign reading "Toot Toot - drive slowly" under the railway bridge which led locals to often toot their horns in acknowledgement of the sign as a warning to oncoming traffic approaching the narrow underpass?
...that the Saku Railway in
Japan built the majority of what is now known as the Koumi Line as part of a plan for a railway network stretching from
Kōfu in the south to
Naoetsu and
Nagaoka in the north, linking up with the Fuji Minobe Railway to create a coast-to-coast rail line?
...that the last use of a
steam locomotive on a regularly scheduled revenue service in
New Zealand was on 26 October 1971, and the new Kingston Flyer heritage service began operating two months later on 21 December?
...that although Kellinghusenstraße station of the
Hamburg U-Bahn system in
Germany was opened in 1912 with four tracks, only the two outer tracks were initially used until 1914 when the line from Kellinghusenstraße to
Ohlsdorf was opened?
...that the Karawanken Tunnel crossing the
Austria-
Slovenia border under the
Rožca saddle, the fourth longest railway
tunnel in Austria and the longest in Slovenia, was opened on October 1, 1906, by
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and still sees more than 80 trains per day?
...that before the
Kyūshū Shinkansen opened in 2004, Kagoshima-Chūō Station, literally translated as Kagoshima Central Station, in
Japan, was originally known as Nishi-Kagoshima Station, which translates as West Kagoshima Station?
...that in 2002 all railway activities were moved out of the original Jyväskylä railway station buildings in
Finland to a new travel centre adjacent to the site, while the original buildings were preserved as part of the inventory of culturally significant areas of the
Finnish National Board of Antiquities?
...that the Jaipur Superfast Express, the second-fastest passenger train connecting
Mumbai and
Jaipur,
India, traverses the 1,159-kilometre (720 mi) long route in 18 hours with a maximum speed of 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph)?
...that on June 25, 1952, hours before the first scheduled train of the day, hundreds of protesters against the
Korean War who left a meeting at the
Osaka University campus thronged Ishibashi Station in
Ikeda, Osaka,
Japan, and forced the
station master to run a train to transport them to
Osaka in what has become known as the Suita Incident?
...that Interail was formed in 2002 as the interstate running arm of
Queensland Rail through the acquisition of the
standard gauge Northern Rivers Railroad in
New South Wales,
Australia, but since launch of the
QRNational brand in 2005, it is unknown how long the Interail brand will remain in use?
...that in the early 1990s Inekon Group, the parent company of Inekon Trams, a manufacturer of
trams located in the
Czech Republic, tried unsuccessfully to gain control of
ČKD, but some of ČKD's engineers were dissatisfied with the new owners and were subsequently hired by Inekon?
...that in the early years of the 20th century before
World War I, the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways company (KkStB) had taken over thirty smaller railway companies to become a practical
monopoly in rail transport, competing with only six other railway companies by the end of the Austrian Empire?