...that Gare de l'Estrailway station in Paris features artwork including a statue by the sculptor Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire representing the city of Strasbourg on its west façade, a statue personifying Verdun, by Varenne at the east end of the station, an in the main-line train hall, a monumental painting by Alfred Herter illustrating the departure of soldiers for the Western Front?
Historic Wagons-Lits restaurant car in Austria in 2003
Heritage train made up of restored Victorian Railways E type carriages
... that the Victorian RailwaysE type carriages were based on Canadian carriage design, but retained an English-style compartment internal layout rather than a typical Canadian open saloon layout?
...that the Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian State Railways) Class D443 locomotives, built in the 1960s to replace aging steam locomotives which were used for heavy freight trains on light, non-electrified lines, are still in service today?
Map showing the Trans-Siberian Railway (red) and Baikal Amur Mainline (green) routes.
...that some Japanese railway companies as well as Deutsche Bahn in Germany and RATP in France issue delay certificates as documentary proof that a railway's scheduled passenger train arrived at a station later than what is stipulated in the company's scheduled timetable and that because they are issued only by the railway companies, these certificates are often accepted as valid reasons for tardiness?
Victorian Railways B class locomotive at Ballarat railway station
Granville-Paris Express wreck at Gare Montparnasse
...that Gare Montparnasse, a railway station in Paris, is famous for a derailment that occurred in 1895 when an out-of-control train overran the buffer stop, careened across almost 30 metres (98 ft) of the station concourse, crashed through a 60-centimetre (24 in) thick wall, shot across a terrace and sailed out of the station, plummeting onto the Place de Rennes 10 metres (33 ft) below?
... that the Krauss-Helmholtz bogie on a steam locomotive, where a carrying axle is connected to a coupled axle via a lever, allows radial forces during curve running to be more or less evened out on both axles, so that riding qualities similar to those of a normal bogie are achieved and wear and tear reduced on wheel flanges and rails?
...that Canada's Lethbridge Viaduct, a 1,624 m (5,328 ft) long, 95.7 m (314 ft) high steel trestle bridge, replaced a wooden trestle measuring 894 m (2,933 ft) long and 20 m (66 ft) high?
Model of the Luxtorpeda train
... that Poland's Luxtorpedarailcar featured a MAN AGdiesel engine at each end of the car, and required a second driver to control the second engine from the other cab, with the drivers communicating with each other by means of a signalling system of coloured lights and an electric bell?
Waiting train at Alstown, Wa. 1983Waiting train at Alstown, Wa. 1983
...that although India's ChennaiMass Rapid Transit System was planned as far back as 1985, the first phase was much delayed and did not open until 1997?
Railway Fishplate
...that the fishplate, a metal bar that is bolted to the ends of two rails to join them together in a track, was patented by William Bridges Adams in May 1842, however the patent shortly afterwards passed to James Samuel, the engineer of the Eastern Counties Railway, the first British railway to use fishplates?
Disused Narita Shinkansen viaduct in Tsuchiya, Narita
...that construction of the Narita Shinkansen high speed rail line in Japan, intended to connect connect Narita International Airport with Tokyo Station, was hampered due to resistance from local residents protesting against the expropriation of their land and was abandoned with construction rights withdrawn after only 9 km (5.6 mi) had been built, the only Shinkansen line to suffer such a fate?
Preserved EO class locomotive, originally used to work the Otira tunnel
Two Bulleid Pacific locomotives at Woodham's Scrapyard
...that because Woodhams' Scrapyard in Barry, Wales found it easier and quicker to scrap freight wagons than locomotives and scrapped these first, most of the nearly 300 steam locomotivesBritish Rail sent there for scrapping in the 1960s were left untouched and were eventually purchased from the scrapyard by preservation groups, with over 100 being restored to operating condition?
400 Series Tsubasa Shinkansen at Yonezawa Station, March 2005
...that Japan's 400 Series Shinkansentrainsets, designed for use on 'mini Shinkansen' lines are considerably narrower than other Shinkansen rolling stock and feature retractable steps to close the gap between a carriage door and the platforms at Shinkansen stations?
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