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2015[edit]

The following items were used in the Did you know section of Wikipedia's Main page in 2015.

... that the Eckwersheim derailment in November 2015 is the only fatal accident of the TGV since it entered commercial service in 1981?
... that Hanford city officials opposed placing California High-Speed Rail's Kings–Tulare Station inside city limits, and then complained about its remoteness from downtown?
... that Bakersfield, California, supported a downtown location for its high-speed rail station in 2003, but opposed it in 2011 due to impacts on its newly revitalized downtown?

... that Avonmouth railway station (pictured) was developed from a halt for the construction workers of the Avonmouth Docks, built in 1868?
... that the Program for Action, a transportation proposal in New York City, was drastically truncated in the 1970s due to a lack of funds?
... that the suspect who was subdued by six men during the train attack heading to Paris was shown on television in handcuffs at trial (prior to conviction), which is illegal in France?
... that the South Shore Line station Kemil Road was funded with a personal check?
... that the Lehigh Valley Railroad historically stocked Mill Run with brook trout?
... that the regional railway Erfurter Bahn, serving the capital of Thuringia, designed a special train to celebrate Leipzig's millennium?

... that because the Yawkey station (pictured) is located on a tight curve, one of its side platforms is located in between the tracks?
... that Adirondack Railway revived passenger train service between Utica and Lake Placid, New York for the 1980 Winter Olympics?
... that Paul Wild, who spearheaded the Very Fast Train Joint Venture in the 1980s, traced a preliminary route using dinner plates and numerous topographic maps spread out on his living room floor?
... that a railroad station named after showman P.T. Barnum is planned to be built in Bridgeport, Connecticut?
... that Egleston was, until 1987, an elevated rapid transit station on the MBTA's Orange Line?
... that over 215,000 Two Together Railcards were sold within a year of the card being launched?
... that at 10,400 feet (3,200 m), the Staten Island Tunnel would have been the world's longest tunnel, but it was abandoned after only 150 feet (46 m) of it had been built?
... that the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad operates a steam locomotive that was once operated by the McCloud Railway?
... that the Saverne Tunnel beneath Mont Saint-Michel will allow trains on a new high-speed rail line in France to operate at a maximum speed of 350 km/h (220 mph)?
... that while the GE steam turbine locomotives took almost two years to build, they were only in operation for six months?
... that Network Rail temporarily banned the West Coast Railway Company from Britain's rails following a SPAD?
... that in an 1884 edition of the Railroad Gazette, railroad engineer Horatio Allen reported that he was the operator of the first locomotive run on a railroad in the United States?
... that the National Transportation Safety Board found that a track gauge 5⁄16 of an inch (7.9 mm) too wide caused a garbage train to derail in the Bronx?

... that Angel has the longest escalators (pictured) on the London Underground network?
... that the MTA Arts & Design-commissioned "Sky Reflector-Net" uses a 53-foot (16 m) skylight and hundreds of aluminium mirrors to bring sunlight into the Fulton Center transit hub?
... that the first phase of the Wenzhou Rail Transit is being built at an estimated cost of 50 billion yuan?
... that the recently-designated Pullman National Monument is the first unit of the National Park Service in Chicago?
... that the newest MARC Train commuter rail station is not planned to open until 2040?
... that locomotives at Reading Central Goods railway station used to tow vessels upstream on the neighbouring River Kennet?
... that the first phase of the Taiyuan Metro is projected to cost 31 billion yuan?
... that the first private railroad car was made for the singer Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale?"
... that a train derailment in March 2015 killed fifty-eight people and injured more than 150 in Uttar Pradesh, India?
... that Fritchley Tunnel is believed to be the oldest surviving railway tunnel in the world?

... that the driver killed in the Valhalla train crash (wreckage pictured)‍—‌the deadliest in Metro-North Railroad's history‍—‌had her Mercedes-Benz ML350 on the tracks for about 30 seconds before the train struck it?
... that Col. Frederick Henry Rich investigated over 250 railway accidents‍—‌including Staplehurst, in the aftermath of which Charles Dickens tended the injured?

... that "Zephyrette" refers to both a hostess on the California Zephyr (pictured) and a Budd Rail Diesel Car service between Oakland, California, and Salt Lake City?
... that the Canadian industrialist Alexander "Boss" Gibson named his company town after his wife and daughter?
... that in retaliation for trains' killing of their cattle, farmers would spread lard on the tracks of the Lake Simcoe Junction Railway?
... that the Belleville and North Hastings Railway didn't reach either Belleville or North Hastings?

... that the building of the Chester Burn viaduct (pictured) was delayed for twenty years by the downfall of railway financier George Hudson?
... that the Broadway Limited was the only Pennsylvania Railroad train to be completely re-equipped with lightweight sleeping cars before World War II?
... that the Telescopic Bridge in Bridgwater, which carried trains over the River Parrett, could be retracted to allow ships to pass?