...that right up until its demise in 1969 and subsequent replacement by the luxurious new Indian Pacific and Trans Australian trains, the
Perth to
KalgoorlieWestland service provided drinking water for passengers in the second class
sleeping cars from water bags slung from the carriage platform railing, and a stack of fire wood was kept on the platform of the
dining car to fuel its stoves?
...that Barlow rail, a rolled
rail section used on early railways with wide flaring feet and designed to be laid directly on the
ballast without requiring
sleepers, was in practice less than successful due to the propensity of the rails to push apart, thus resulting in a serious
derailment risk?
...that among the various
TGV train types operated by
SNCF in
France are the TGV La Poste trains, essentially
TGV Sud-Est trainsets that are modified for transporting mail for the French postal carrier
La Poste?
...that at
Taiwaneselevel crossings on
electrified routes, the crossbuck (the sign composed of two slats of equal length, fastened together on a pole in a
saltire formation resembling the letter "x") features a special symbol in the center cautioning road users about excessive height cargo that may contact the electric wires?
...that the operators of the short-lived Réseau Guerlédan railway in
Côtes-du-Nord (now Côtes-d'Armor) in northwest
France inherited statutory powers to operate the line from the former
metre gaugeRéseau Breton railway that previously ran along the route because the Réseau Breton had after closing left lengths of rail in place where there had formerly been
level crossings?
...that the Bullo Pill Railway was originally opened in 1810 as an approximately 4
gaugeplateway, converted to a railway by the 1840s, widened to 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) gauge in 1854 and converted to
standard gauge in 1872 before the line was finally closed in 1967?
...that the 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) width between the inner edges of the
rails in standard gaugetracks has its origins in the preference of
George Stephenson (engineer in chief of the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway) for the 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) gauge of wagonways used in collieries where he had spent his early engineering career, but with an additional 1⁄2 in (13 mm) of free movement to reduce binding on curves?
... that the 2000 class railcars operated by
TransAdelaide in
South Australia are nicknamed "Jumbos" due to the raised driving cab, similar to that of the
Boeing 747 "Jumbo Jet", designed so that two passengers could sit at the front or rear window?
...that a well car, also known as a double-stack car or stack car, is a type of
railroad car specially designed to carry
intermodal containers, with a depressed section which sits close to the rails between the
bogies of the car, making it possible to carry a stack of two containers per unit on railway lines where the
loading gauge assures sufficient clearance?
...that the work in 1858-1859 to widen the Flat Rock Tunnel in
Pennsylvania to accommodate the wider rolling stock from the
Lebanon Valley Branch was the first construction project to employ electric detonation of multiple
explosive charges?
...that the G-series cars, built in the 1950s for
Toronto Transit Commission with the last cars in this series retired from revenue service in 1990, were frequently described as "robust and reliable" despite being constructed overweight and being
energy-inefficient?
...that from 1965 to 1980, the Fujilimited express, withdrawn in 2009 after almost 80 years' service, was the longest distance train service in
Japanese history, taking just over 24 hours to cover the 1,574.2 kilometres (978.2 mi) between
Tokyo and
Nishi-Kagoshima stations?
...that although the
Prussian State Railways' Class P 62-6-0steam locomotives originally built between 1902 and 1910 were authorised to run at up to 90 km/h (56 mph), design flaws led to poor riding qualities that prevented this speed from being attained in practice?
...that
Moscow's Paveletsky Rail Terminal was the place where Muscovites came to meet the train carrying the body of deceased
Soviet leader
Vladimir Lenin, and the Lenin Funeral Train remains there as a permanent exhibit?
...that in
Japan, the term Blue Train denotes a type of long-distance
sleeper train nicknamed as such for the color of the train cars, which have recently seen a severe decline in ridership as the
Shinkansen (bullet train), buses, and airplanes have become faster, more popular, and sometimes cheaper?
...that right up until its demise in 1969 and subsequent replacement by the luxurious new Indian Pacific and Trans Australian trains, the
Perth to
KalgoorlieWestland service provided drinking water for passengers in the second class
sleeping cars from water bags slung from the carriage platform railing, and a stack of fire wood was kept on the platform of the
dining car to fuel its stoves?
...that Barlow rail, a rolled
rail section used on early railways with wide flaring feet and designed to be laid directly on the
ballast without requiring
sleepers, was in practice less than successful due to the propensity of the rails to push apart, thus resulting in a serious
derailment risk?
...that among the various
TGV train types operated by
SNCF in
France are the TGV La Poste trains, essentially
TGV Sud-Est trainsets that are modified for transporting mail for the French postal carrier
La Poste?
...that at
Taiwaneselevel crossings on
electrified routes, the crossbuck (the sign composed of two slats of equal length, fastened together on a pole in a
saltire formation resembling the letter "x") features a special symbol in the center cautioning road users about excessive height cargo that may contact the electric wires?
...that the operators of the short-lived Réseau Guerlédan railway in
Côtes-du-Nord (now Côtes-d'Armor) in northwest
France inherited statutory powers to operate the line from the former
metre gaugeRéseau Breton railway that previously ran along the route because the Réseau Breton had after closing left lengths of rail in place where there had formerly been
level crossings?
...that the Bullo Pill Railway was originally opened in 1810 as an approximately 4
gaugeplateway, converted to a railway by the 1840s, widened to 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) gauge in 1854 and converted to
standard gauge in 1872 before the line was finally closed in 1967?
...that the 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) width between the inner edges of the
rails in standard gaugetracks has its origins in the preference of
George Stephenson (engineer in chief of the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway) for the 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) gauge of wagonways used in collieries where he had spent his early engineering career, but with an additional 1⁄2 in (13 mm) of free movement to reduce binding on curves?
... that the 2000 class railcars operated by
TransAdelaide in
South Australia are nicknamed "Jumbos" due to the raised driving cab, similar to that of the
Boeing 747 "Jumbo Jet", designed so that two passengers could sit at the front or rear window?
...that a well car, also known as a double-stack car or stack car, is a type of
railroad car specially designed to carry
intermodal containers, with a depressed section which sits close to the rails between the
bogies of the car, making it possible to carry a stack of two containers per unit on railway lines where the
loading gauge assures sufficient clearance?
...that the work in 1858-1859 to widen the Flat Rock Tunnel in
Pennsylvania to accommodate the wider rolling stock from the
Lebanon Valley Branch was the first construction project to employ electric detonation of multiple
explosive charges?
...that the G-series cars, built in the 1950s for
Toronto Transit Commission with the last cars in this series retired from revenue service in 1990, were frequently described as "robust and reliable" despite being constructed overweight and being
energy-inefficient?
...that from 1965 to 1980, the Fujilimited express, withdrawn in 2009 after almost 80 years' service, was the longest distance train service in
Japanese history, taking just over 24 hours to cover the 1,574.2 kilometres (978.2 mi) between
Tokyo and
Nishi-Kagoshima stations?
...that although the
Prussian State Railways' Class P 62-6-0steam locomotives originally built between 1902 and 1910 were authorised to run at up to 90 km/h (56 mph), design flaws led to poor riding qualities that prevented this speed from being attained in practice?
...that
Moscow's Paveletsky Rail Terminal was the place where Muscovites came to meet the train carrying the body of deceased
Soviet leader
Vladimir Lenin, and the Lenin Funeral Train remains there as a permanent exhibit?
...that in
Japan, the term Blue Train denotes a type of long-distance
sleeper train nicknamed as such for the color of the train cars, which have recently seen a severe decline in ridership as the
Shinkansen (bullet train), buses, and airplanes have become faster, more popular, and sometimes cheaper?