...that the railways of the Isle of Man collectively celebrated the centennial of railway service on the island with the Year of Railways in 1993 featuring rare operations of vintage equipment and special tours of railway lines?
...that of the fifteen VIA RailFP9s that were rebuilt to become FP9ARM locomotives, The first five, re-manufactured in 1983 and early 1984, were outshopped without steam generators and half of the fleet were later retrofitted with head end power alternators?
...that the Temiya Line, in Hokkaidō, Japan, was originally intended to extend from the seashore to the colliery at Temari-mura Kayanuma, but was deemed inefficient, as ships could do the same work as trains on the line?
...that although Takahatafudō Station's Keiō Line in Japan had been open since 1925, when the Tama Toshi Monorail Line's station was opened at this location in 2000, the two stations were not linked until they were both rebuilt and reopened in 2007?
...that the third-generation Surflinerpassenger cars under development by Sumitomo and expected to be delivered in 2015 will feature crash energy management technology?
...that although the demonstration State of the Art Car promoted by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) in the 1970s was well received by subway operators in the United States, the concept did not catch on and all future rapid transit cars were designed by manufacturers with input from clients and the DOT stopped R&D work on public transit concepts?
...that the 10.8-kilometre long (6.7 mi) Shiziyang Tunnel under the Pearl River estuary in China was designed for speeds of up to 350 km/h (220 mph) making it the fastest underwater tunnel in the world?
...that between July 2011 and June 2013, 13 incidents occurred in which passengers were hit by trains at Shin-Koiwa Station in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan, which has led Katsushika Ward to make an official request to JR East to install platform-edge doors at the station?
...that when it opened in 1972, Sanyō Shinkansen services, using 0 series trains, made the Shin-Ōsaka to Hakata run in 3 hours 44 minutes, but travel time has since been reduced with the 1997 introduction of the 500 series trains on Nozomi services which traverse the line in 2 hours 17 minutes at a maximum speed of 300 km/h?
...that Victorian Railways' Rowan steam railmotor car number 1 was designed with provision for the easy removal of the power unit for repair and with a double deck passenger compartment but was rebuilt as a single deck by VR upon delivery?
...that Ploshchad Ilyicha, on Moscow Metro's Kalininskaya Line, was named after Il'ich square, which has since been renamed Rogozhskaya Zastava, but the station's architecture was influenced by the former name as the realisation of Lenin's ideas by architects L. Popov and V. Klokov and engineers Ye. Barsky and Yu. Murmotsev?
...that the North West Rail Link proposal in Sydney, Australia, was originally announced in 1998, then was reconfigured and proposed again as a metro line in 2008 then again reconfigured to a CityRail commuter line proposal in 2010?