...that soon after its opening in 1897 as part of the Sanyō Railway, Yokogawa Station, in
Hiroshima,
Japan, also became a terminal for the first public
bus service in Japan in 1905?
...that Universidad station on the
Monterrey Metro in
Mexico served as the terminus of Line 2 from the station's opening on October 31, 2007, until stage two of the Line 2 expansion was completed on October 1, 2008, and
Sendero became the new terminus?
...that the Toei Ōedo Line, a
subway line in
Tokyo,
Japan, which was originally designated as Line 12 and uses
12-000 series trains, opened on December 12, 2000, a date that can be written as "12/12/12" since the year 2000 equals
Heisei 12?
...that the Swing Door trains that operated on the
suburban railway network of
Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia, were originally 13.7-metre long (44 ft 11 in)
steam-hauled
bogie passenger cars that were extended by two compartments to a total length of 17.4 metres (57 ft 1 in), and then fitted onto new under-frames and bogies?
...that after the first
South African RailwaysClass GB2-6-2+2-6-2Garratt was placed in service in 1921 working
passenger trains on the Natal South Coast line, it proved to be a successful locomotive, having good riding qualities and flexibility on light track with poor
ballasting and many curves of 300 ft (91 m) radius, which led to a second order of six more locomotives of the class to be placed in service in 1924?
...that while the practice by most other
locomotive builders was to allocate builder’s numbers or works numbers to record the locomotives built by them, when
Union Carriage & Wagon (UCW) built the
South African Railways (SAR) Class 5E1, Series 5, UCW simply used the SAR running numbers for their record keeping?
...that the Silverliner name, which refers to a series of
EMU cars used in the
Philadelphia area since 1958, came from the classes' shiny
stainless steel body shell when they were introduced, and the cars made such an impression that the name has since been applied to all subsequent MU classes purchased by
SEPTA for the
Regional Rail services?
...that soon after its opening in 1897 as part of the Sanyō Railway, Yokogawa Station, in
Hiroshima,
Japan, also became a terminal for the first public
bus service in Japan in 1905?
...that Universidad station on the
Monterrey Metro in
Mexico served as the terminus of Line 2 from the station's opening on October 31, 2007, until stage two of the Line 2 expansion was completed on October 1, 2008, and
Sendero became the new terminus?
...that the Toei Ōedo Line, a
subway line in
Tokyo,
Japan, which was originally designated as Line 12 and uses
12-000 series trains, opened on December 12, 2000, a date that can be written as "12/12/12" since the year 2000 equals
Heisei 12?
...that the Swing Door trains that operated on the
suburban railway network of
Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia, were originally 13.7-metre long (44 ft 11 in)
steam-hauled
bogie passenger cars that were extended by two compartments to a total length of 17.4 metres (57 ft 1 in), and then fitted onto new under-frames and bogies?
...that after the first
South African RailwaysClass GB2-6-2+2-6-2Garratt was placed in service in 1921 working
passenger trains on the Natal South Coast line, it proved to be a successful locomotive, having good riding qualities and flexibility on light track with poor
ballasting and many curves of 300 ft (91 m) radius, which led to a second order of six more locomotives of the class to be placed in service in 1924?
...that while the practice by most other
locomotive builders was to allocate builder’s numbers or works numbers to record the locomotives built by them, when
Union Carriage & Wagon (UCW) built the
South African Railways (SAR) Class 5E1, Series 5, UCW simply used the SAR running numbers for their record keeping?
...that the Silverliner name, which refers to a series of
EMU cars used in the
Philadelphia area since 1958, came from the classes' shiny
stainless steel body shell when they were introduced, and the cars made such an impression that the name has since been applied to all subsequent MU classes purchased by
SEPTA for the
Regional Rail services?