Portal:Trains/Did you know/November 2019

November 2019

10030 series formation on the Tobu Isesaki Line in 1988

• ...that the 1989 introduction of 10-car 10030 series trains, a subseries of the 10000 series, on Tobu Railway's Tojo Line marked the first time fixed ten-car sets had been used on Tobu overground trains?

Crotram TMK 2200 tram (#2219) in Zagreb, Croatia, in 2006

• ...that although the next order of 60 TMK 2200 trams for Zagreb, Croatia, is for a smaller version, the €130 million price (€1.85 million per vehicle) is somewhat higher than price for the initial 70 ordered in 2003?

Tiverton Parkway station in June 2019

• ...that Tiverton Parkway railway station was built by British Rail on the site of the former Sampford Peverell station that had closed 22 years earlier?

Tracks leading out of Thanjavur Junction station in 2012

• ...that with a route length of about 1,026.55 km (637.87 mi), the Tiruchirappalli railway division is the second largest division of Indian Railways' Southern Railway zone?

The station and ferry loading interchange at Tinnoset in 2004

• ...that in 1911 the Tinnoset Line became the second line in Norway to be electrified?

A Turbotrain operated by VIA in 1981

• ...that although the UAC TurboTrain, was the first tilting train to enter commercial service in the USA and Canada in 1968, the first passive tilting car design was built in 1937?

A Portland Streetcar on the Tilikum Crossing bridge in 2015

• ...that the Tilikum Crossing bridge over the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, is the first major bridge in the U.S. that was designed to allow access to transit vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians but not cars?

Henry Worth Thornton in 1915

• ...that Henry Worth Thornton, president of Canadian National Railway 1922-1932, was head coach of the football team at Vanderbilt University in 1894?

Portrait of Philip Thomas circa 1873

• ...that Philip E. Thomas, a founder and the first president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, acted as commissioner of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal system but resigned after realizing that it would not benefit Baltimore?

Cook's Timetable cover from 1888

• ...that over its 140-year publication history, the Thomas Cook European Timetable has only had six editors-in-chief?

Buster Keaton on the cowcatcher of a locomotive during filming of "The General"

• ...that for the 1926 film "The General," which was loosely based on the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase, Buster Keaton attempted to rent the real-life General locomotive?

Two Thalys trains at a station in 2008

• ...that although the Thalys brand had been created in 1995, Thalys had not become an independent open-access operator until 2015?

Santa Fe's 'Texas Chief' being serviced at its station stop in Oklahoma City in 1967

• ...that Santa Fe Railroad's Texas Chief service introduced in 1948 connecting Chicago and Galveston, Texas, was the first Santa Fe "Chief" outside the Chicago–Los Angeles routes?

Texas & Pacific route map from the 1950s

• ...that as of 2006, the Texas Pacific Land Trust, which was created in 1888 in the wake of the bankruptcy of the Texas and Pacific Railway, was still the largest private land owner in the state of Texas?

Some of the passenger-facing technology improvements at 53rd Street station in 2017

• ...that the technology of the New York City Subway is under continual improvement, including subway construction methods, wireless and cellular network connections in stations, moving block signal systems, and subway line automation?

Walter H. Taylor in his Lt. Col. uniform circa 1864

• ...that in April 1907, Walter H. Taylor, then attorney for Virginian Railway, met Mark Twain on his journey to the Jamestown Exposition and the two drove off in an "infernal machine," better known now as an automobile?

A GWR train at Taunton station in 1892

• ...that Isambard Kingdom Brunel's original design for Taunton railway station was for a single-sided station with two platforms, each with their own buildings and train sheds, placed on the south side of the line?

Tattenham Corner station in 1901

• ...that since Tattenham Corner railway station is the closest station for Epsom Downs Racecourse, where the Derby is held, the British monarch traditionally alights from the British Royal Train there?

A Tatra T3SUCS in Prague in 2015

• ...that a late-2000s study conducted on the Prague tram system has shown 98.9% reliability for the Tatra T3 model trams, the best of the Prague tram system fleet?