Typical combined main and distant signals in Finland
...that in the Finnish railway signalling system, a distant signal, which indicates the signal aspect of a distant signalling block, is located at least 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) before the main signal, but may be located on the same post as the main signal for the current signalling block?
...that the Class D.341diesel locomotives of FS/Trenitalia in Italy were built in the late 1950s and early 1960s by both FIAT Grandi Motori and Breda with different engines depending on the manufacturer which led to a slightly different appearance between the two series?
...that in the Netherlands there are five types of train services including NS Hispeed/International such as the Thalys services to Paris, Intercity, Sneltrein, stoptrein and Sprinter?
...that William Dargan is known as the "father of Irish railways" for his work in constructing the first Irish railway in 1833, which connected Dublin to Dún Laoghaire, as well as over 800 miles (1,300 km) of railway to important urban centres of Ireland?
...that after the 1977 closure of Dachnoye, a temporary station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, the station building was subsequently enclosed in a larger building that was later converted into local Metro headquarters?
The locomotives that were about to be purposely crashed at Crush, Texas
...that the class 1000 Shinkansen trains delivered in 1962 were not only used for high-speed testing ahead of the opening of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen in 1964, but were also all scrapped at Hamamatsu Works between 1975 and 1976 to test the cutting-up facilities ahead of the first batch of 360 0 series cars due for withdrawal?
A preserved Brill car on the Christchurch tram heritage line
Northbound Carolinian at the Raleigh, NC, station in 2008
...that Amtrak introduced the Carolinianpassenger train connecting New York City and Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1984, but then discontinued it the following year after North Carolina declined to renew its financial support for the service and finally reintroducing it in 1990 again with North Carolina's support?
Driving trailer 6111, the former railcar 2624 and the only surviving example of the 2600 class, heads a push–pull train at Howth Junction on May 11, 1974
...that although construction of Busan Subway Line 2 in South Korea began in 1991, the first section, a 22.4 km (13.9 mi) route with 21 stations between Hopo and Seomyeon, was not opened until 1999?
...that because freight trains in the United Kingdom without a continuous train braking system in either the whole train or the rearmost section of the train were still common as late as the 1970s a train's guard would use the brake van's brakes to assist with keeping a train under control on downwards gradients and whenever he could see that the locomotive's crew was attempting to slow the train?
Rio Grande Zephyr at Denver's Union Station in 1983
...that Jannowitzbrücke station, a station on the Berlin S-Bahn in Germany, first opened in 1882 and was closed in 1961 with the construction of the Berlin Wall, but became the first ghost station on the system to reopen on November 11, 1989?
...that the act of a guard or conductor of a railway to apply the emergency brakes where something untoward has been noticed is sometimes called a pulled tail?
A GE locomotive painted in the SPSF merger scheme.