Portal:Trains/Did you know/December 2020

Hermannstraße S-Bahn station entrance in 2005

...that S-Bahn and U-Bahn connections in Berlin at Hermannstraße station were planned as early as 1910 but weren't fully realized until 1996, after German reunification?

The preserved Bennerley Viaduct in 2009

...that in 1916, Zeppelin airships of the German Airship Naval Division conducted a bombing raid over the British Midlands near to but not damaging Great Northern Railway's Bennerley Viaduct?

The preserved Bemidji station building in 2013

...that the former Great Northern Railway Bemidji station in Minnesota was the last depot commissioned by railroad magnate James J. Hill?

A TGV train at Bellegarde station in 2013

...that in 1981 two daily TGV services between Paris and Geneva that passed through Bellegarde station were created, making Bellegarde-sur-Valserine the first town with less than 20,000 inhabitants to get a daily TGV link to Paris?

The former Fyansford Cement Works Railway steam locomotive No. 4 pulls a train on the Bellarine Railway in 2007

...that the Bellarine Railway line, now operated as a heritage railway, is recognised as the oldest Victorian branch line still in operation?

The bricked-up entrance to Belgrave and Birstall station in 2003

...that the street entrance to the former Great Central Railway Belgrave and Birstall railway station was bricked-up in the late 1970s to help reduce vandalism, and it was left in place into the 21st century?

Trains in Belgrade Centre station in January 2016

...that due to countless setbacks over several decades, construction of Belgrade Centre railway station, which opened in January 2016, has been called Skadar na Bojani, after the folk epic poem The Building of Skadar?

A signal displaying a "double yellow" signifying that the next signal displays a "block occupied" indication

...that Belgian railway light signals are designed to be seen by train drivers up to 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) away, so they are equipped with lenses to focus light rays emitted by the bulb, which lessens their intensity when viewed from the side?

A train on the Belfast-Derry line at Castlerock in 2006

...that the 2012 refurbishment of the Belfast–Derry line in Northern Ireland that included the installation of continuous welded rail resulted in a morning train reaching Derry before 9:00 am for the first time since NI Railways took control of the network in the 1960s?

The entrance to Hainault station in 2007

...that the lifts at Hainault tube station are the shallowest on the London Underground network, having a descent of just 18 inches (460 mm)?

Two locomotives of the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad at City Point in 2012

The Tianjin Grand Bridge, the second-longest bridge in the world, in 2009

...that the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway crosses the longest and second-longest railway bridges in the world?

One of the Bayshore Cutoff's tunnels nearing the end of construction in 1906

...that fill material taken from the five tunnels of the Bayshore Cutoff was used to build the Visitacion or Bayshore Yard, Southern Pacific Railroad's classification yard near the city of Brisbane, California?

The front of the Bayerisch Eisenstein station building in 2008 with a line marked in the road in front denoting the national border location

...that the national border between Germany and the Czech Republic runs through the middle of the Bayerisch Eisenstein railway station building?

Bay Street station in 2015

...that although Montclair's transit village in New Jersey is mostly built at Bay Street station, the township also serves five other stations?

The preserved series k Bavarian S 3/6, number 018 505-8, built by Deutsche Reichsbahn, in operation in 1992

...that Royal Bavarian State Railways' Class S 3/6 was that railway's most numerous class of 4-6-2 steam locomotives, with production continuing into the Deutsche Reichsbahn era?