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January 2010

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Heritage steam train crossing Glenfinnan viaduct
Heritage steam train crossing Glenfinnan viaduct
Y1 01 (1281) at Bablak, Kosovo
Y1 01 (1281) at Bablak, Kosovo
One of two steel trestle viaducts on the Ybbstalbahn, a bridge type otherwise only used in Austria on the Stubaitalbahn.
One of two steel trestle viaducts on the Ybbstalbahn, a bridge type otherwise only used in Austria on the Stubaitalbahn.
  • ...that the 760 mm (2 ft 5+1516 in) narrow gauge Ybbstalbahn, completed in 1898, is one of only two railways in Austria to utilise a steel trestle viaduct?
Santa Fe 98
Santa Fe 98
An example of an opposed-piston engine
An example of an opposed-piston engine
Shinkansen 800 Series Interior
Shinkansen 800 Series Interior
  • ...that the interior of the new 800 Series Shinkansen utilises many traditional Japanese interior materials, including Persimmon tannin color for the walls, ancient lacquer for the doors, seats made from wood with cushions of Nishijin textiles, bamboo window curtains and wooden interior flooring?
Postcard of Gare de St Germain en Laye
Postcard of Gare de St Germain en Laye
Alaska Railroad train pulled by two GP40s
Alaska Railroad train pulled by two GP40s
  • ...that all four Alaska Railroad locomotives comprising the runaway in the 1985 movie adaptation of the Akira Kurosawa screenplay Runaway Train still survive twenty five years later, with one, EMD F7A #1500, preserved in a museum and the other three (two EMD GP7s and one EMD GP40) still in regular service?
  • ...that the oldest train station in Turkey, Izmir's Alsancak Railway Station, although expanded from four tracks and two platforms to ten tracks and four platforms as recently as 2001, was then closed to all passenger services in 2006?
DB 66 002 in Bochum-Dahlhausen
DB 66 002 in Bochum-Dahlhausen
North British Railway locomotive 224, recovered from the water after the Tay Bridge disaster
North British Railway locomotive 224, recovered from the water after the Tay Bridge disaster
Eddy current brake equipment on Japanese 700 series Shinkansen
Eddy current brake equipment on Japanese 700 series Shinkansen
BR Class 55 Deltics awaiting scrapping
BR Class 55 Deltics awaiting scrapping
Preserved former Pine Creek railway station
Preserved former Pine Creek railway station
A car of the Babbacombe Cliff Railway, in Torquay, Devon, England
A car of the Babbacombe Cliff Railway, in Torquay, Devon, England
Oakes Ames
Oakes Ames
A train on the Ikawa Line
A train on the Ikawa Line
Paris Metro signage
Paris Metro signage
Toledo station
Toledo station
A Swedish T44 diesel locomotive number 359, operated by Green Cargo, in the VR freight yard in Tornio, Finland
A Swedish T44 diesel locomotive number 359, operated by Green Cargo, in the VR freight yard in Tornio, Finland
Japanese semaphore signal
Japanese semaphore signal
CargoNet NSB Di 8 locomotive at Skogn Station on Nordlandsbanen in Levanger, Norway
CargoNet NSB Di 8 locomotive at Skogn Station on Nordlandsbanen in Levanger, Norway
La Plaine — Stade de France on the RER B.
La Plaine — Stade de France on the RER B.
FGC train in Barcelona
FGC train in Barcelona
Pioneering railway steam locomotive "Samson" preserved at the Museum of Industry in Stellarton, Nova Scotia
Pioneering railway steam locomotive "Samson" preserved at the Museum of Industry in Stellarton, Nova Scotia
The Spirit of Progress press launch with locomotive S302 Edward Henty at Spencer Street Station, November 17, 1937. (Victorian Railways publicity photograph)
The Spirit of Progress press launch with locomotive S302 Edward Henty at Spencer Street Station, November 17, 1937. (Victorian Railways publicity photograph)
Eight-span viaduct carrying the Vatican Railway over the Gelsomino valley up to the sliding-door gateway into Vatican precincts
Eight-span viaduct carrying the Vatican Railway over the Gelsomino valley up to the sliding-door gateway into Vatican precincts
  • ...that with only two 300 m (980 ft) long sets of tracks, the Vatican City rail system is the smallest national system in the world?
Southern Fuegian Railway
Southern Fuegian Railway
D5901, a British Rail Class 23
D5901, a British Rail Class 23
German goods train steam locomotive, Württemberg Class K
German goods train steam locomotive, Württemberg Class K