A French Red Cross train bearing sick and wounded soldiers to Paris after passing through a field hospital in 1917
...that historically hospital train usage has ranged from trains equipped to transport wounded soldiers, with basic nursing and first aid facilities on board, to fully equipped mobile medical centres, sometimes including operating theatres and nursing wards?
Modern CFS passenger train, hauled by General Electric Class U17C, north of Aleppo on the former Baghdad Railway
...that most tracks of the Chemins de Fer Syriens are limited to a top speed of 80 km/h (50 mph) in part due to a lack of interlockedsignalling, with most of the system operating on a token based system?
The remains of Alton railway station as seen in 2006
...that ALCO's 251 engine model, first designed in 1951 and offered in inline-6, V12 and V16 configurations, proved successful enough that it is still available for purchase from Fairbanks-Morse for new applications?
SNCF 231G 558 pulling an excursion train in June 2009
...that the period of operations for the Bristol Railroad, a 6-mile (9.7 km) long railroad in Vermont, was short enough that one man, John S. Burt, rode both the grand opening train on January 5, 1892, and the final train on April 12, 1930?
Map showing the proposed rail extension to Kippa-Ring
...that the Festungsbahn in Salzburg, Germany, opened in 1892 as a water balance funicular, was later modernized in 1960 to use electric traction and again modernized in 1991 with new cars that allowed a higher passenger capacity and faster speed reducing the travel time for its 198-metre (650 ft) length to one minute?
Class 9F locomotive 92021 at Wellingborough shed in 1959
A BR Mark 1 composite sleeping car in the LNWR carriage sheds at Crewe in the mid-1970s
...that the surviving British Railways Mark 1 sleeping cars, built between 1957 and 1964, have been decontaminated of their asbestos insulation and are kept for their value as museum exhibits, as much as for sleeping accommodation for museum and heritage railway volunteers?
...that Łódź Kaliska railway station opened by the Warsaw - Kalisz Railway in 1902 in Łódź, Poland, was rebuilt in 1994 and is still in use providing connections to all major cities of Poland?