A class 5000 EMU of the Ichibata Electric Railway on the Kitamatsue Line in 2010
...that Ichibata Electric Railway Co., Ltd. is the official English language name of two different Japanese railway companies - Ichibata Denki Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha (一畑電気鉄道株式会社) which is now a holding company and Ichibata Densha Kabushiki-gaisha (一畑電車株式会社) which was formerly the railway operating division of the present holding company?
A HŽ 1061 series locomotive in Rijeka, Croatia, in 2008
A passenger train passing the closed Hassop station (to the left in this photograph) in 1961
...that the main Hassop railway station building in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England, which closed to passengers in 1942 has been preserved and renovated and now houses a family-friendly cafe named Hassop Station?
...that at every stop of the Great White Train in Australia, an effort in the 1920s by Sydney-based industrialists to convince Australians to 'Buy Australian Made', the radio station 2XT was set up and broadcast to the local community but was heard as far away as New Zealand with a clear signal?
The 1900 Gare du Champ de Mars and the Celestial Globe
...that the site of the present RERGare du Champ de Mars in Paris has accommodated a total of five stations, being built in 1867, 1878, two in 1900 (one passenger and one goods) and the present station in 1988?
A Nanakuma Line 3000 series trainset for the Fukuoka City Subway in 2004
...that all lines of the Fukuoka City Subway, which began operations in 1981 in Japan, are automatically operated by an ATO system, although drivers are used as a precaution?
A Bombardier Flexity Berlin at Alexanderplatz in 2008
An Expo Express train at Place d' Accueil terminal in 1967
...that after service was suspended on the Expo Express in 1972, the first fully-automated rapid transit system in North America, the trains were stored on Île Notre-Dame in Montreal in the hope that they could be eventually reused, but they were then scrapped in the mid-1990s?
Location designator painted on a railway bridge, showing miles and chains
...that engineers' line references, three or four-character codes used in the British rail network to refer to a section of a track or route, are unique across the whole rail network, allowing identification of any part of the network?
55022 Royal Scots Grey at Barrow Hill Roundhouse in 2009
...that the preservation group known as Deltic 9000 Fund, originally founded to ensure that at least one example of the Class 55 diesel locomotives was preserved following their withdrawal from service in 1981 then later known as Deltic 9000 Locomotives Ltd, was instrumental in the preservation and restoration of both D9000/55022 Royal Scots Grey and D9016/55016 Gordon Highlander?
Daimon Station platforms in 2006
...that because Daimon Station on the Toei Subway in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, was initially planned to be called "Hamamatsucho", the station is called "Daimon Hamamatsucho" in certain automated announcements?
A CRT Group switcher at Altona, Victoria, in 2007
...that CRT Group, an intermodal transport company in Australia that was founded as Colin Rees Transport (CRT), a taxi truck company in suburban Sydney in the 1950s, introduced the first CargoSprinter to Australia in February 2002?