Portal:Trains/Did you know/July 2021

July 2021

The Cologne Stadtbahn at Rochusplatz station in May 2015

• ...that when the first underground line of the Cologne Stadtbahn opened in November 1968, it was integrated into the existing tram network, instead of being run as a separate subway?

The north portal of the Schloss-Röttgen Tunnel on the Cologne Airport loop in 2009

• ...that while the Cologne Airport loop was planned and built as part of the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line, few trains run along both lines?

Great Southern & Western Railway Coey 4-6-0 No. 365 in photographic grey in 1907

• ...that the Great Southern and Western Railway Class 362 of steam locomotives designed by Robert Coey was the first 4-6-0 tender design in Ireland?

A Cobourg and Peterborough Railway locomotive and crew circa 1870

• ...that the Cobourg and Peterborough Railway was chartered in 1852 after two previous charters for similar lines failed in the previous two decades?

A Coaster train near Encinitas in March 2021

• ...that in December 2018, the NCTD achieved full implementation of positive train control along the entire Coaster route, making it one of only four railroads in the United States to achieve full implementation without needing an extension beyond 2018?

A train on the Ayalon Railway line in 2006

• ...that the 5-kilometre long (3.1 mi) Ayalon Railway extension of Israel's Coastal railway line was the first railway line in Israel to be double-tracked from the outset?

The 1903 Hornsby locomotive

• ...that the first Co-Co locomotive, a diesel locomotive or electric locomotive with two six-wheeled bogies with all axles powered, was built in 1903 by Hornsby for the narrow-gauge Chattenden and Upnor Railway?

Passengers in a CN radio car, listening to broadcast programming in 1927

• ...that Canadian National Railway developed CNR Radio, which became the first national radio network in North America, to provide entertainment and information for its train passengers?

A Clover Hill Railroad stock certificate from 1864

• ...that the Clover Hill Railroad Company's 1841 charter by the Virginia General Assembly did not allow the company to charge more than 2 cents per bushel of coal shipped over the railroad?

Fremantle railway line at southern side of rail bridge in 2019

• ...that the 1979 closure of the Fremantle Railway became a key campaign issue in the 1982 Western Australia state government election?

Woodcut illustration of Judson Clements in 1884

• ...that in 1916, Interstate Commerce Commission Commissioner Judson C. Clements proposed that no worker be allowed to quit a railway company or urge others to do the same until the Commission had the opportunity to investigate the matter in a fair and equitable manner?

Edgar Clark at his desk circa 1915

• ...that before his 1906 appointment to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Edgar E. Clark had worked as a brakeman and conductor, and served as Grand Senior Conductor of the Order of Railway Conductors?

CityLynx Gold Line Birney car 93 on E. Trade Street, departs the streetcar line's layover area at Charlotte Transportation Center in March 2016

• ...that the three replica Birney streetcars on the CityLynx Gold Line used overhead wire powered at 650 volts DC, but the new Siemens-built cars that will replace them use 750 V power?

The defunct City Hall subway station in New York City as seen in 2018

• ...that City Hall station, one of the original 28 stations of the New York City Subway, opened in 1904 as Interborough Rapid Transit Company's southern terminus?

A Tangara in July 2013 at Circular Quay the halfway point of the City Circle

• ...that the City Circle is horseshoe shaped?