Portal:Trains/Did you know/June 2022

June 2022

• ...that in 1984, Pfizer installed four closed circuit TVs and talk-back boxes on the Flushing Avenue station platforms, monitoring them from the Pfizer plant security area one block away from the station?

• ...that excluding the Toronto Transit Commission's heritage collection of a few older streetcars, the TTC's entire active streetcar fleet consists of the Flexity Outlook?

• ...that the original Bourton station was the first station out of Bristol on the Great Western Railway's line until Bedminster opened in 1871?

• ...that Flamborough railway station was located several miles away from Flamborough?

• ...that the location of Denver-area RTD's Fitzsimons station was moved to prevent vibrations from affecting research equipment at the nearby University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus?

• ...that William Robinson installed one of the first test applications of his track circuit signaling system on the Fitchburg Cutoff in Massachusetts in 1876?

• ...that the former Firsby railway station was served by two public houses, one of which doubled as the Firsby Railway Hotel?

• ...that when the Victoria line was built, mosaics of duelling pistols were installed at Finsbury Park station due to a mistaken identification of Finsbury Park with Finsbury Fields?

• ...that the 7131 class diesel multiple unit trains used in Argentina were nicknamed Chanchas (Spanish for Piggies)?

• ...that William Fernihough presented the first published account of the mathematics and mechanics of steam locomotive driving wheel balancing one day before he was succeeded as locomotive superintendent for Eastern Counties Railway in 1845?

• ...that the barriers at the level crossing adjacent to Feniton railway station were operated from a panel within the station building until March 2012?

• ...that at its peak, Feltham marshalling yard on the Waterloo to Reading Line had 32 miles (51 km) of track?