N463, the locomotive involved in the 2003 accident, pictured in 2007 after returning to service
...that quick and coordinated actions between Metrol controllers and drivers to clear a train from the path of a runaway train, although it later collided with another train at Spencer Street station, had prevented one collision by as close as one second?
Publicity photo of the Golden Gate train circa 1938
...that Santa Fe Railway's Golden Gatepassenger train was involved in what was believed to be the first collision in the United States between a modern streamlined train and an automobile when it was struck by a car in January 1939?
Agenoria shown in preservation at the National Railway Museum in 2010
...that although Adler was the first steam locomotive successfully used commercially in Germany, earlier designs had been in private use in Germany as early as 1816?
The new Adelaide station during construction in 1927
...that the first emergency call after the 1999 Wuppertal Schwebebahn accident was initially met with laughter from the dispatcher as it was considered inconceivable for a Schwebebahn train to fall off the overhead track?
The tracks and platforms at Acton Central station in 2008
A crowd with police in Brisbane during the 1948 Queensland railway strike
...that in an attempt to preventing picketing and end the 1948 Queensland railway strike, the Queensland Parliament passed an act which gave police extraordinary powers to arrest without warrant and enter any home without cause?
Reward poster for information regarding the 1939 derailment