Portal:Trains/Did you know/December 2010

December 2010

The main facade of Darnytsia commuter station in 2009

• ...that with an infrastructure complex more than 5 km (3.1 mi) long including a commuter passenger terminal and two additional train stops, several sorting yards and locomotive and railcar depots, Darnytsia Railway Station is the largest railroad station and the main freight station of the Ukrainian capital Kiev?

DART train stopped at the West End Station, heading to the American Airlines Center in 2004

• ...that when the first line of the DART Light Rail system in Dallas opened on time and on budget in June 1996, it became the first light rail system in Texas and the American Southwest?

Preserved Crocodile Ce 6/8 II in Erstfeld in 2004

• ...that the original "Crocodile" locomotives, the SBB Ce 6/8 II and Ce 6/8 III electric locomotives of the SBB, Swiss Federal Railways, built between 1919 and 1927, were highly successful and served until the 1980s and several were preserved and continue in operation on heritage railways?

Colonial Tramcar Restaurant in Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne in 2005

• ...that a fleet of three converted trams that run on selected standard tram routes through Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and some nearby inner suburbs serves as the dining area for the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant?