...that Mawson Interchange, which opened in 2006 as the first new railway station to be built in Adelaide for more than 20 years (since the extension of the Noarlunga Centre line), is expected to soon become one of Adelaide's five busiest stations?
Manseibashi Station some time between 1912 and 1923
...that after the main station building of Manseibashi Station in Tokyo was closed and razed in 1943, the lot was used as the location for the Tokyo Railway Museum and the Transportation Museum until 2006, when the museum was re-focused towards railways and moved to Saitama, Saitama as the Railway Museum?
Maffei workers celebrating the completion of their 500th locomotive in 1864
A rack-railway train of line C at the Croix-Paquet station in 2005
...that Line C of the Lyon Metro in France consists of a formerly independent rack railway including the Croix Paquet station which claims to be the steepest metro station in the world, with an incline of 17%?
...that Ukrainian locomotive manufacturing company Luhanskteplovoz, founded in 1896 and in continuous operation since then, produced thousands of the well known 'M62' and DR Class 130 ("ludmillas") diesel-electric locomotives for eastern European soviet bloc countries?
Line 15 under construction in September 2009 near the future Wangjing Station
...that the tunnels for Beijing Subway's Line 15, which is due to open in December 2010, will be up to 38 metres (125 ft) underground, making them the deepest in Beijing's subway system?
...that in poor financial condition, the Lehigh Valley Transit Company, an interurban transit company in Pennsylvania, abruptly abandoned operations in September 1951 with no prior notice, an action that puzzled riders who were waiting to be picked up the next day?
A departing InterCityExpress next to a regional train at Landeck-Zams in 2007
...that in 2008 Japanese newspapers and news programs reported on two cats found sleeping on the ticket gate machine in Kumura Station and subsequently the cats came to be known as the "Station Cats"?
An 8000 class electric locomotive of Korail pulling a freight train in 2007
...that on January 1, 2005, the Korean National Railroad, commonly known as Korail, was split into the Korea Railroad Corporation (which retained the Korail name) to become the company that operates the trains and the Korea Rail Network Authority to become the company responsible for infrastructure maintenance?
An EW60 class EMU of Koleje Mazowieckie in 2007
...that when Koleje Mazowieckie in Poland was founded in 2004, the company was created as a joint venture between the Masovian Voivodeship, with 51% shares, and the government-owned Przewozy Regionalne, with 49% shares, but by the end of 2007 Koleje Mazowieckie was completely owned by the Masovian Voivodeship?
...that much of the Isle of Man Railway's marketing stated Kirk Michael railway station's name as either ’Michael or simply Michael, the apostrophe one assumes acknowledging the potential "Kirk" prefix, but in later times the station was given its full title?
Opposing trains on the Kiel-Flensburg Railway meet at Süderbrarup in 2007
...that because trains on the Kiel-Flensburg Railway in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, reach a speed of 120 km/h (75 mph) with travel times over the 80 km (50 mi) railway around 75 minutes, the line is nicknamed schnellste Nebenbahn Deutschlands (fastest local railway in Germany)?
...that Kegi Station located near Jinshin Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan, was originally to be named after the bridge, but when it came time to name the station, the residents in the area wanted it named Kegi, after the area in which it was located?
The Keadby Bridge in 2006
...that the 163-foot (50 m) long electrically-powered bascule (lifting span) of Keadby Bridge in Lincolnshire, England, was one of the first of its type in Britain and when built, was the largest in Europe, but the bridge has not been lifted since 1956 and following capacity improvements in 1960 the bascule was fixed in position?
The front facade of the railway station in 2008 after redevelopment
...that although the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer Orientaux received a concession to build a railway from the Ottoman Empire to Vienna, Austria, via Edirne, the railway company built Karaağaç Railway Station in 1871 in order to avoid building a bridge across the Maritsa River?
East Indian Railway Mail leaving Kalka Station circa 1906
...that the Kalka Mailpassenger train, which began operation in 1866 between Delhi and Calcutta and then, starting in 1891, from Kalka to Calcutta, India, was the principal mechanism for British civil servants to move from the capital, Calcutta, to the summer capital in Simla?
Jokioinen railway station on the Jokioinen Museum Railway in 2008
...that several of the structures that make up the current Jokioinen railway station on the Jokioinen Museum Railway in Finland were built at other locations and moved to the station site separately, including a former switchman's shanty from Mellilä, an old building of Kumila railway station on the Turku-Toijala railway, and an information shelter built at Minkiö?
