Portal:Trains/Did you know/November 2021

November 2021

View of the Dent Head Viaduct in 2018

• ...that one of the quarries from which stone was cut for the Settle–Carlisle line's Dent Head Viaduct was located almost underneath the viaduct?

The facade of the former Delmar Boulevard station in 2018

• ...that the former Wabash Railroad's Delmar Boulevard station in St. Louis, Missouri, was a popular interchange for Wabash passengers, accounting for up to 40% of all Wabash boardings in the city?

Interior of a Delhi Airport Metro Express train in December 2011

• ...that the Delhi Airport Metro Express line has the first airline check-in facility outside an airport in South Asia?

The former train station in Georgetown, Delaware, in 2012 along track operated by the Delaware Coast Line Railroad

• ...that when the swing bridge operated by the Delaware Coast Line Railroad over the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal was condemned in 2016, three tank cars became stranded on one side and had to be disassembled and trucked out?

Passengers wait at DeKalb station to board the Kate Shelly 400 in December 1964

• ...that passenger trains have served DeKalb station in Illinois from its construction in 1891 until the day before Amtrak assumed operation of most U.S. intercity passenger services in 1971?

Dongfeng DMU power car

• ...that the first diesel multiple unit built in China, the Dongfeng DMU used an engine derived from the Kharkiv model V-2, the engine used in the T-34?

A 628.0 train on the Ausserfernbahn line near Schönbichl in the 1980s

• ...that introduction of Deutsche Bahn's Class 628 diesel multiple unit trains was delayed for four years after successful test and demonstration runs in 1974?

A Decauville train in front of the Pavilion of Algeria at the 1889 exposition

• ...that the Decauville railway at Exposition Universelle, which operated for only six months in 1889, is reported to have carried 6,342,446 visitors?

The DDJ1 train in storage at the Beijing Ring railway in 2015

• ...that despite incorporating high-speed rail technology from French, Japanese and Swedish designs in 1999, China Railway's DDJ₁ design did not prove successful for high-speed rail in China?

DC Streetcar at Union Station stop at the end of the H Street NE line in October 2015

• ...that the original plan for the DC Streetcar would have had diesel multiple unit cars operating on previously abandoned CSX railway tracks?

Two Class 218 locomotives at Köln Hauptbahnhof in 2013

• ...that DB Class 218 diesel-hydraulic locomotive number 218 473 was temporarily painted in a dark blue "King Ludwig" livery, sponsored by model train manufacturer Märklin?

EWS freight train in 2011

• ...that DB Cargo UK was founded in 1995 as North & South Railways, owned by a consortium headed by Wisconsin Central?

Camping coaches at Dawlish Warren station in 2009

• ...that camping coaches have been available for rent at Dawlish Warren railway station intermittently since 1935?