Portal:Trains/Did you know/January 2021
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January 2021
- ...that the Boat cars operated as part of the Blackpool Heritage Trams fleet were originally called Luxury Toastrack cars?
- ...that there has been a station on the current site of Blackburn railway station since the Blackburn and Preston Railway opened one there in 1846?
- ...that with grades as steep as 1 in 25 and using a Fell centre rail for braking, the Roa Incline on the New Zealand Railways Department's Blackball Branch was owned by the State Mines Department for its entire useful life?
- ...that since the trackand moved forward or backward to point it at a new target?
- ...that many parts of the Oppenheim's Glassworks building and machinery, which were demolished in the mid-19th century for construction of the original Birmingham Snow Hill railway station, are believed to be buried underneath the current station and car park?
- ...that the 1993 Newark Bay rail accidentin which 48 lives were lost?
- ...that the Biebermühl Railway in Germany is the only one of all the Palatine railway lines that were completed in the 20th century that has never been threatened with closure?
- ...that initially the first 15 BHP Newcastle 37 class diesel locomotives were swapped between the narrow and standard gauge networks by changing the bogies and couplers?
- ...that Bethnal Green tube station is the site of what is believed to be the largest loss of civilian life in the United Kingdom during the Second World War?
- ...that from its opening in 2002 until the opening of Downsview Park station in 2018, Bessarion station on Line 4 Sheppard of the Toronto subway was consistently ranked the least-used station on the heavy-rail portion of the subway system?
- ...that the topography of Besançon tramway using some very sharp turns, several with a radiusof only 17 metres (55.77 ft)?
![Two Rhaetian Railway ABe 4/4 III multiple units with a Bernina Express train on the Bernina Railway, passing Lago Bianco in 2010](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/RhB_ABe_4-4_III_mit_Bernina-Express_am_Lago_Bianco.jpg/100px-RhB_ABe_4-4_III_mit_Bernina-Express_am_Lago_Bianco.jpg)
- ...that the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) Bernina railway in Switzerland is the highest railway crossing in Europe and the third-highest railway in Switzerland?