...that although the first train to depart Carterton Railway Station in New Zealand was a special goods train carrying a load of timber, it was another three months before goods consignments were accepted at the station?
A First Great Western HST at Cardiff Central in February 2017
...that VancouverSkyTrain's Canada Line was anticipated to have 100,000 boardings per day in 2013 but has consistently exceeded early targets carrying 105,000 per day in March 2010 and over 136,000 passengers per weekday in June 2011?
Canada Atlantic Railway locomotive number 618
...that for a short time at the end of the 19th century the Canada Atlantic Railway handled up to 40% of the grain traffic from Lake Huron?
C&MLR locomotive "Atlantic" and passenger car in 1907
...that following the closure of Burgh-le-Marsh railway station in 1970, the station buildings and signal box have survived virtually intact in private ownership and are intermittently in use as tea-rooms?
...that the government contract establishing Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway (Spanish: Ferrocarril del Sud) in 1862 exempted the railroad company from paying contributions, taxes and custom fees but mandated it to carry the post for free?
One of ConnDOT's 13 SPV-2000 railcars, used by Amtrak for New Haven-Springfield service, at New Haven in May 1982