...that the level crossings used by the Taurachbahn in Austria on the federal highway at Mariapfarr station and the local highway at Lintsching stop are secured by barriers, which must be manually closed and opened by the train crew?
...that despite the rapidly growing use of roads, rail transport in Sudan has remained of paramount importance to the country because of its ability to move at lower cost the large volume of agricultural exports and to transport inland the increasing imports of heavy capital equipment and construction materials for development, such as requirements for oil exploration and drilling operations?
...that many of the lines that make up rail transport in Peru owe their origins to contracts granted to Henry Meiggs in the 1860s, but the mountainous nature of Peru made expansion slow and much of the surviving mileage is of twentieth-century origin?
...that a memorial replica of Bramhope Tunnel's north portal, a railway tunnel in West Yorkshire that is still used by Northern Rail, was erected in Otleychurchyard to commemorate the lives of the 24 men who died during the tunnel's construction in the 1840s?
...that rail stressing is a continuous welded rail installation technique developed in the 1960s to avert rail track problems such as tensile stress in extreme cold that could cause the rail to fracture or compressive stress in extreme heat that could cause the rail to buckle?
...that after its closure in 1965, Cheddleton railway station in Staffordshire saw the establishment of a railway preservation base at the station due to a campaign by local residents, spearheaded by Norman Hancock, who in May 1974 as a mark of protest parked his Jaguar car on the level crossing where the railway line meets Basford Bridge Lane in Cheddleton?
...that because the majority of the Ontario Southern Railway's 1.5-mile (2.4 km) long monorail line connecting the amusement park at Crystal Beach, Ontario, and the Grand Trunk Railway station at Ridgeway was elevated 10 to 30 feet (3 to 9 meters) on wooden posts, it was sometimes referred to as the "Peg-Leg Railway"?
...that according to Strategic Rail Authority figures, Buckenham railway station in the English county of Norfolk is one of the least-used stations in the country, with 13 entries and 16 exits for the year 2005/06, and for 2006/07 this had declined further to 22 total entries and exits?
...that in the early part of the 20th century, Cincinnati streetcars used funicular systems to raise and lower the streetcars over four inclines surrounding the city that allowed the streetcars to directly connect to the city's suburbs?
...that although direct management has been outsourced, the three railway lines and their connected ports in Mozambique are overseen by a parastatal authority known as Mozambique Ports and Railways?
...that many railway systems around the world have implemented Motorail services in which passengers are carried in normal passenger cars or in sleeping cars on longer journeys, while their automobiles are loaded into autoracks, car carriers, or flatcars to make the journey with them?
...that EMD's SD75I locomotive model is basically the same as the EMD SD75M, with 4,300 horsepower (3,200 kW), HTCR-II radial trucks and a 72 feet 4 inches (22.05 m) frame, but the locomotive's cab is fully isolated from the frame that dampens vibration and cuts down on noise in the cab?
...that the two lines of Monterrey Metro, the newest of Mexico's metro systems, transported approximately 88.3 million passengers in 2008 and in the first quarter of 2009, following the extension of Line 2, they carried an average daily passenger load of 328,000 passengers?
...that the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway founded in 1908 in India by merging the Madras Railway and the Southern Mahratta Railway, was merged with the South Indian Railway and the Mysore State Railway in 1951 to form the Southern Railway, one of the 16 zones of the Indian Railways?
...that the former Victorian Railways, the state railway authority in Victoria, Australia, built a number of experimental 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gaugenarrow gauge lines around the beginning of the 20th century, and although all were closed by the early 1960s, parts of two have been reopened as heritage railways?
...that when it was opened in 1890 by the Compagnie Générale Française de Tramways, the Funiculaire du Havre connecting Le Havre and the Côte Sainte-Marie, France, was operated with unreliable steam coaches until the line was electrified and recabled in 1911?