...that in the original design for SNCF's BB 60000 class, the locomotives were to be powered with an MTU engine, as those engines were used in BB69400 and BB75000 locomotives and had a good performance, but the MTU engine was replaced with one from Caterpillar due to financial reasons?
Sandsfoot Castle station platform in 2008
...that Sandsfoot Castle Halt, opened in July 1909 as part of a scheme that saw several halts opened on the GWR and other railways to counter road competition, and closed with the branch in 1952, remains as a timber platform on the Rodwell Trail?
Russian train accident in 1888, showing the crushed dining car and grand-ducal car
...that in the 1888 Borki train disaster, believed to have been caused by dangerous vibrations set up by double-headingsteam locomotives and a train length beyond the railroad's safety limitations, TsarAlexander III is reported to have held the remains of the collapsed dining car roof on his shoulders as his children evacuated?
Route map of the Interoceanic Railway of Mexico in 1912
...that the Chao Chow and Swatow Railway in China ceased operations in 1937 when spreading Japanese hostilities prompted the Ministry of Railways to order that this railway and several other lines should be dismantled as part of the Nationalist Government's "strategic retreat" to the interior of China?
Two Millennium Line trains meet at Brentwood station in 2005
...that in anticipation for the second phase of construction on the Millennium Line in Vancouver, an extension from Lougheed Mall to Coquitlam, switches were installed to the east of Lougheed Town Centre Station and a third platform was roughed-in but the extension was canceled following a change in provincial government?
Class 261 (V 60) locomotive in 1984 at Uelzen
...that of Deutsche Bundesbahn's 942 original Class V 60diesel locomotives built between 1956 and 1964, around 400 were still working for the Deutsche Bahn in 2004, several of which have since ended up in private or industrial railways in Germany and elsewhere, as well as the state railways in Turkey, the former Yugoslavia (e.g. the Croatian Railways HŽ series 2133) and Norway (17 engines as NSB Di 5)?
...that the Southern Railway's U1 class three cylinder 2-6-0 mogul steam locomotives in the United Kingdom featured an improved variation of the Gresley conjugated valve gear designed and patented by Harold Holcroft, driven from the combination lever rather than the valve spindle of the outside valve gear, thus immune to variations in valve events brought about by heat expansion of the valve spindles and flexing of the conjugation levers when in heavy use?
Class 754 (ex T 478.4) diesel engine used in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic and former Czechoslovakia.
...that the Mexican Railway, incorporated in London in 1864 as the Imperial Mexican Railway and completed in 1873, remained independent of the government-owned Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (National Railways of Mexico) until the government gained control in 1946 and merged the property in 1959?
Bristol and Exeter Railway locomotive No. 44, built in 1854 with 9-foot (2.7 m) diameter drivers, withdrawn 1870
An Alstom Prima locomotive in Chemins de Fer Syriens livery, Syria, in 2007
...that although the first prototypes were electric locomotives, subsequent production of the Prima locomotives by Alstom have been primarily diesel variants?
The railway track monument at Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum
...that the Hellfire Passcutting on the infamous Burma Railway was built as a cutting rather than a tunnel as construction could take place at all points along its length simultaneously, despite the excess effort required by the Allied POWs and Malayan labourers forced to build it?
Railway network of Sri Lanka
...that although the Sri Lanka Railway was initially built to transport goods such as coffee and tea for export, with time and population growth passenger traffic increased and since the 1960s has overtaken freight as the main source of revenue?
Anatole Mallet
...that although Swissmechanical engineerAnatole Mallet is recognised as the inventor of the first successful compound locomotive system and later developed an articulated compound locomotive with a rigid chassis at the rear and an articulated front driving truck, the term "Mallet locomotive" is also used to describe simple expansion articulated locomotives, even if not strictly correct?