Portal:Trains/Did you know/August 2022

August 2022

A Frecciarossa 1000 train at speed on a bridge in February 2021

• ...that upon the public unveiling of the first Frecciarossa 1000 train in 2013, it was hailed as being the fastest train to reach series production in Europe?

A train at St. Combs station in 1905 with an F&SLR train showing the cowcatcher

• ...that since the Fraserburgh and St Combs Light Railway line was partly unfenced, the locomotives were fitted with cowcatchers, an arrangement rarely found in United Kingdom practice?

Metro trains at Franconia-Springfield in 2008

• ...that although Washington Metro's Franconia–Springfield station was the 8th-most-used Metro station in Virginia as of 2016, its parking garage is the largest on the Metro system?

A Fortescue Metals Group ore train crosses the Turner River in July 2008

• ...that upon its opening in 2008, the Fortescue railway, in Western Australia's Pilbara region, was the heaviest haul railway in the world?