Historical facts about the railroad. Interesting facts about trains and railways
For example, the Qinghai-Tibet single-track railway, the highest mountain road on the planet, annually attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world to admire the magical Tibetan landscapes of the “roof of the world” at an altitude of more than 5,000 km above sea level.
No sea or air company can offer you such romance. Of course, such extreme conditions require special trains. The cars are fully sealed, equipped with personal oxygen masks and an oxygen supply system if necessary, and naturally, passenger cars do not open at intermediate and observation stations, because there is nothing to breathe outside them. The Chinese themselves are extremely proud of their engineering structure and put it on a par with the Great Wall of China.
No less amazing is the Thai railway, which passes through a real market! 60 km west of Bangkok in the town of Maeklong, the food market, located right on the railway tracks, quickly turns its food trays several times a day, twists the awnings and scatters right in front of the trains.
But the most amazing thing is that even at this time the trade does not stop! Money-coin flies from the open windows of the train to the merchants, and fish, sweets, fruits and other purchases fly back through the windows. The main thing here is to be able to catch! :-) Although, I believe that the passengers have a knack for this matter after rubbing their eyes from broken tomatoes and the phrase “I didn’t catch it again!” :-) After the trains pass, the boxes with the remaining vegetables, fish and other goods again return to the rails and trade becomes more civilized :-)
railway track Napier-Gisborne is unique in that it crosses the main runway of Gisborne Airport in New Zealand. This is the only railway in the world where it is the air traffic control service that allows or prohibits trains from crossing the runway to continue their route.
Sometimes planes and trains are literally seconds apart! This outlandish "denouement" is perhaps the first offer to tourists from New Zealand guides! Agree, a locomotive and a plane rushing towards each other is a common sight for Hollywood or Indian films, but not for everyday life!
If you have already found your soul mate or are still just looking, then the railway highly recommends visiting the beautiful “Tunnel of Love”, located near the village of Klevan in Ukraine. This scenic three-kilometer stretch of railway leads to a fibreboard factory. The train runs here three times a day, delivering wood to the Orzhevsky woodworking plant. It is the train that makes the growing tree branches bend around the tracks and maintains the tunnel in this state.
A beautiful sunny summer green corridor attracts couples in love, and in autumn and winter photographers who want to capture this beautiful miracle of nature. It is believed that if you visit the "Tunnel of Love" and guess cherished desire, then it will definitely come true.
The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway in the world, today it has 9300 km of tracks and is a whole network of railways between Moscow and the Russian Far East. In addition, the road has branches to all neighboring border countries. Construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway in full force It began back in 1891, under the personal control of Sergei Witte, who, being then Minister of Finance, clearly understood that Russia simply had to be a strategic partner between East and West. In order for the construction of the road and the accompanying infrastructure to keep pace with each other, the Russian leadership began construction from the east and west at the same time, striving inland. To understand the scale of the project, suffice it to say that only in 2002 was its full electrification completed!
Having reconstructed some sections of the road in the early 2000s, Russia organized the first permanent corridor of large-scale freight traffic between China, Mongolia, Belarus, Poland and Germany, which significantly increased trade turnover and contributed to the further development of the Far East as a strategic region.
The original name of the road is the Great Siberian Way. And it is great not because the construction of the road was carried out for almost a century, but because the Russian government then deliberately refused Western "aid", not wanting to allow the strengthening of the influence of foreign capitalists in the Far East. They built only with their own forces! And they did! Built!
No wonder they say that to drive along the Trans-Siberian Railway means to see half the world. Is it a joke? The famous Photographer Todd Selby, who has made a long journey from Paris to Shanghai by rail, claims that this is the real truth: still in Siberia! Siberia is very big. And Baikal is very big. But this is just a part of great Russia!”
If all the previous facts about railways did not cause you any emotions, then do not despair. There is still one railway in the world, which they do not get tired of admiring to this day! Well, even if you are an avid critic and the word “to admire” is not for you, then don’t worry, you will also find a huge “portion” for discussion and condemnation here for yourself. What is this railroad? This is BAM!
I would not like to argue with those who claim that the BAM is a "dead end" of the Soviet era, that it was built by prisoners, that the whole territory of the BAM is a huge zone or camp ... This, whatever one may say, this ingenious engineering project still goes around a huge number of tales and legends ... But, nevertheless, for thousands of thousands of BAM residents, this construction site remained the happiest and brightest memory. And they speak of it as a bright, romantic, heroic and the best time in their lives. So it was.
The best youth ever Soviet Union I came, I worked, I lived. Families were created here, real labor feats were accomplished, discoveries were made. BAM was built by the whole country.
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Through passes, rivers and swamps
We will lay the highway for centuries. We are not afraid of any work,
At the call of our hearts, we have come here!”
BAM was designed as part of a systematic project for the development of significant natural resources little-explored areas, through which, in fact, the road ran.
On the way to the BAM, it was planned to build about ten territorial-industrial complexes-giants, but a very "promising" Gorbachev's perestroika, allowed to complete the construction of only oneSouth Yakutsk coal complex. Then, no less “promising” privatization, with great hopes, transferred a number of resource deposits into private hands, but instead of loading the capacities of the BAM and massive development of mineral deposits in the highway zone, the “output” turned out to be only oligarchs with yachts. By the early 2000salmost all projects for the development of the Baikal-Amur Mainline zone were suspendedunder the "ideological" pretexts of inexpediency, and the decision of the Soviet leadership to build BAM was diligently hung up with the stigma of fallacy and futility. How truly "oligarchic" is it to hide behind the sudden "futility" of a project that for half a century was considered simply vital for Siberia and Far East according to all experts.
The only thing that warms the soul is that the current leadership of the country is seriously aimed at reviving the BAM and the region as a whole. And it is not just words. RecentlyThe Elginskoye field is successfully operating, where the first coal was mined in the summer of 2011. An access railway line is being built, connecting it with the highway. The first freight trains super heavy weight, allowing to transport 7100 tons instead of the previous weight norm 4800 tons, which should increase the profitability of transportation at times. This became possible after the commissioning of new powerful two-section locomotives of the 2ES5K Ermak series and diesel locomotives 2TE25A Vityaz. The trains successfully overcome the most difficult section of the route - the Kuznetsovsky Pass.
The railway tracks themselves at the pass were reconstructed and strengthened, and the New Kuznetsovsky Tunnel was put into operation.I will note for critics: “The trains have gone, but they will not go. The pass has been reconstructed, but will never be. "Ermaki" and "Vityazi" are put into operation, and are not at the design stage.
I am sure that BAM has a bright future because a road built with love cannot but live forever!
Trains are one of the most popular types transport. Every day they carry more than a million passengers around the world. But at the same time, few people know that many interesting facts are connected with trains.
1. Abandoned station
In New York there is a subway station, City Hall, passing through which the train slows down without stopping and without opening the doors. This beautiful station was opened in 1904 on a new metro line, but in 1945 it was closed due to low passenger flow and unsafe use. But today, train number 6 passes very slowly through this station every day so that passengers can admire its luxurious interior.
2. From kamikaze planes to high-speed trains
During World War II, the Japanese used special aircraft designed by designer Miki Tadanao to attack American warships. Thanks to an optimized streamlined shape, they picketed at great speed, hitting the target with lightning speed. But realizing how many pilots had died because of his kamikaze planes, Miki Tadanao focused on more peaceful projects. Using his knowledge, he helped build the first generation of bullet trains. During a trial run in 1963, they achieved a speed of 256 km / h. Today's bullet trains can reach speeds of over 600 km/h.
3. Steam vs Horse
In 1830, a railroad was built between Baltimore and Ohio, which ran horses and carts. Peter Cooper suggested using a steam engine instead of horses. To implement this idea, Peter designed and built a small steam locomotive, "Tom Thumb" - "Boy with a finger." His test was very successful. After that, Peter Cooper decided to arrange a demonstration race "Steam against a horse."
At the beginning of the race, the advantage was on the side of the horse, since the locomotive needed time to accelerate, but, gaining a speed of 29 km / h, it easily overtook the horse. However, after some time, the drive belt came off the locomotive, it slowed down, and the horse came to the finish line first. But, nevertheless, the superiority of the steam locomotive was obvious, and soon trains with steam locomotives began to run on the railway.
4 Hogwarts Express
The world of Harry Potter is filled with magic, and, of course, we all would like to see it in reality. And some traces of that world still remain in our lives. Arriving in Scotland, you can ride on the same express train that students, including Harry Potter, traveled to Hogwarts, the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Trains with those same red trailers still run along the picturesque West Highland route today. They drive along the famous Glenfinnan Viaduct, and the same wonderful landscapes flash through the windows as in the Harry Potter movie.
5. American Civil War
Steam locomotives were widely used to transport passengers and goods. But, starting in 1861, during civil war, they also began to transport soldiers and military equipment. In September 1863, the Allies delivered 20,000 soldiers to the front with the help of trains that covered 1,900 km in 11 days. Unfortunately, in the future, the widely used railways became the target of multiple terrorist attacks.
6. “Horsepower”
The horsepower unit of measure for power has been used for hundreds of years. But what is this unit and where did it come from? James Watt suggested using steam instead of horses in breweries. Watching horses, Watt noticed that a horse could drag a load weighing 14.774 kg over a distance of 0.3 m in 1 minute. Rounding 14.774 kg to 15 kg, he introduced the unit of power "horsepower". Comparing the performance of a horse and a steam engine using this unit, Watt convinced brewers to replace horses with steam, and as a result, the efficiency of the brewing process increased significantly. And the term “horsepower” has been widely used since that time.
7 Presidential Funeral Train
George Pullman drew attention to the fact that train cars were not very convenient for night trips and decided to improve them. In partnership with his close friend, Benjamin Field, he created a company to design comfortable railroad cars, and six years later the company produced two such cars, the Springfield and the Pioneer. In 1865, after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, his body had to be transported by train to Springfield. All along the route, in dozens of cities, there were mourning people. Lincoln's widow, seeing all this, upon arrival in Chicago, fainted from nervous exhaustion. Pullman, in order to make it easier for her to endure the rest of the journey, offered to use his Pioneer car. The convenience of this car was appreciated, and since then all trains have been equipped with sleeping cars.
8. Time zones
How to determine the time in the territory big country, in different parts which daylight hours are not synchronized. For these purposes, time zones were invented. In 1883, representatives of the US railroad companies met to develop a convention to determine the common time. On November 18, at 12 noon, a telegraph signal was sent from the American observatory, according to which all railway stations adjusted their clocks. In 1918, the US Congress officially approved nine time zones in the country.
9. Railway fever
After steam locomotives began to be used in America, the need arose for large-scale construction of railroad tracks. In 1830, when the first steam locomotive was tested, the length of railroad tracks in the United States was 37 km. By 1861 it had reached 48,000 km, between 1890 and 1900 another 64,000 km had been added, and by 1916, the length of railroads in the United States (402,000 km) exceeded the distance from the Earth to the Moon. By 1930, the length of the roads was 692,000 km. In the future, with the advent of cars, the construction of railway lines began to decline.
10. Right on schedule
All trains in Japan run without delay, even a one-minute delay is very rare. The Japanese achieved this by taking train drivers seriously and punishing them severely for being late. If passengers are late at the station, an apology is made over the loudspeaker, and a document is issued confirming the lateness of the train, indicating the reason. Passengers can present this official document to their employer if problems arise due to their being late for work.
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To create such a large-scale project as railways, a lot of effort, time and Money. Sometimes, the great design geniuses came to crazy decisions and created ridiculous situations. Curious cases have become frequent in this reform activity. And also with the development of high-speed transport, the theme of trains and long trips began to be very often mentioned in art - music, films, theatrical productions; and even in politics. Here are the most interesting facts and references to railways:
1) Who lives at the bottom of the ocean?
In 1896 between English cities Brighton and Rottingdean began to run unusual vehicle called Daddy Long Legs - a cross between a tram and a ferry. Laying a railway overland on this route required a lot of engineering structures, and engineer Magnus Volk proposed to lay the rails directly along the bottom of the sea - the total length of the path was 4.5 km. The platform with passengers rose above the rails on four supports 7 meters long and had a flag, a lifeboat and other maritime attributes, as it was formally considered a ship. The service was canceled in 1901 when it was decided to build new breakwaters near Brighton, and the transfer of the track was considered too costly.
2) When and where did an uncontrolled train travel more than 100 km, accelerating to a speed of 76 km/h?
On May 15, 2001, in Ohio, USA, a railroad crew was moving a 47-car train from one track to another. Due to a technical error, an unmanned train called CSX 8888 picked up speed and left for independent travel, during which it accelerated to a speed of 76 km / h. Having traveled more than 100 km, the train was stopped by the driver of the diesel locomotive that caught up with him, who grappled with the last car and applied rheostatic braking.
3) What mechanism got its name from the name of the inventor of the bicycle prototype?
The prototype of the bicycle was designed and patented by the German baron Karl von Dres in 1818. This mechanism had a wooden frame, metal wheels and a steering wheel, but there were no pedals - in order for it to move, it was necessary to push off the ground with your feet. The surname of the inventor in the name of the bicycle was not fixed, but gave the name to the trolley - a device for moving on rails with mechanical traction.
4) How did Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign influence the lyrics of "Time Machine" songs?
During Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign, many works of art were censored. For example, Andrey Makarevich changed the text in the song “Conversation on the Train”: after the line “Carriage disputes are the last thing,” instead of “when there is nothing else to drink,” he began to sing “and you can’t cook porridge from them.”
5) What was the main reason for the transition to a time zone system in the 19th century?
Until the 19th century, there was no division into time zones, everywhere the time was determined by the Sun. There was no need for time zones, as there was no high-speed transport. Unification was driven by the development of railways in England, because due to time differences in each city it was very difficult to draw up a normal timetable. It was the railway companies who ensured that there was one GMT time zone throughout the country. And then gradually the system of time zones began to spread around the world.
6) Who was the victim of the murderer, whose brother had previously saved the life of the son of the murdered?
US President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in a theater by John Booth in 1865. Shortly before this, by coincidence, the brother of the latter, Edwin Booth, saved the life of the president's son, Robert Lincoln, on a railway platform.
7) Where did the train crash occur due to the language barrier?
In 2001, there was a railway accident in Belgium in which 8 people, including both drivers, died as a result of a head-on collision of trains. Among other accidents, this one is unique in that its main cause was the language barrier. When the driver of the first train left the station despite the red signal, the dispatcher called the next station to warn about it. However, the controllers did not understand each other, as one spoke French and the other Dutch. Both of these languages are official in Belgium, and according to the rules of the railway company, staff must know at least one of them.
8) What accident did the Americans arrange in 1896 for the entertainment of the public?
In 1896, one of the American railroad companies staged a show - a deliberate collision of two trains at full speed. 40,000 tickets were sold for the "performance", and a temporary campus was built for the spectators who bought tickets. However, the engineers miscalculated the force of the blast and the crowd was not withdrawn to a safe enough distance, resulting in three deaths and several others being injured.
9) What were military armored rubbers?
It is known that in the wars of the 19th century, the First and Second World Wars, many countries used armored trains. However, in addition to this, they tried to fight with the help of individual combat units - armored rubber. They were almost like tanks, but limited in movement only by rails.
10) Series Y?
From 1910 to 1920, freight steam locomotives of the Y series were mass-produced in Russia.
11) Why did the direct railway between Moscow and St. Petersburg have a curvilinear bend in one place?
The Oktyabrskaya railway connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg is now a collection of straight lines, although there used to be a slight curvilinear bend between Okulovka and Malaya Vishera. There is a legend that when designing the road, Emperor Nicholas I personally drew a straight line between the two capitals, and the bend arose due to the fact that the pencil went around the finger attached to the ruler.
In fact, there was a height difference in that place, which made it difficult for trains driven by low-powered locomotives to move. In order not to hook an additional locomotive, a detour was created.
12) Who and where managed to survive and not become disabled after his brain was pierced by an iron crowbar?
In 1848, an American railroad worker, Phineas Gage, suffered a work injury when a metal rod pierced the frontal lobes of his brain, entering through his left cheek and exiting near the top of his head. Less than an hour later, Gage came to his senses, and then went to the hospital and on the way calmly and calmly talked about the hole in his head. The wound developed an infection, but the worker recovered and lived another 12 years. His memory, speech, perception were not disturbed, only his character changed - he became more irritable and lost his inclination to work.
13) What myth of the Soviet times about the film "The Arrival of the Train" is still alive?
Contrary to popular belief (which even found its way into the Soviet textbook on the history of foreign cinema), the film The Arrival of the Train was not shown at the famous first paid film show in Paris in the basement of the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines.
14) What was the name of the city where Anna Karenina threw herself under the train?
In Leo Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina threw herself under a train. station near Moscow Obiralovka. In Soviet times, this village became a city and was renamed Zheleznodorozhny.
15) Who invented Morse code?
Morse code in its usual form was not invented by Morse, but by the German engineer Gercke. The original Morse code was inconvenient, although it was used on some American railroads well into the 1960s.
16) Who has more?
An interesting fact is that the gauge of the railway in Russia is 8 centimeters more than in Europe. There is an epic that when Russian engineers came to the tsar and asked how wide the track should be, the same as in Europe or more, he replied: nah ... more. So they made the track exactly so much wider. The width of the European railway gauge was adopted long before the invention of the steam locomotive.
17) Whose standard?
The railway track corresponds exactly to the distance between the wheels of the ancient Roman chariots, with which the Romans made conquests in the territories of modern England and France. The peoples of Europe made their chariots according to Roman models, this standard was also taken into account in the construction of railways.
18) Mail trains under escort
In the early days of the existence of the Nikolaev railway, the mail was especially vigilantly guarded along the entire route. To this end, mail trains were sent under the escort of mounted gendarmes, galloping at full speed along the railway.
19) Rescue benches
Third-class carriages on the first Russian railways were installed in front of the train, were equipped with hard benches, but ... did not have a roof, and therefore passengers often traveled under the benches, where they escaped from the sparks that flew out of the locomotive pipe in sheaves, and cold.
20) Paradoxical love
The most paradoxical is the fact that with a small length of Russian railways (only 7 percent of the world's total railway figure), the Russian Federation accounts for about 35 percent of the world's rail freight traffic. These figures are explained by the unusual popularity of railways among Russian businessmen, and both the owners of large enterprises and individual entrepreneurs who need to transport small consignments give preference to this type of transport.
The reason for such a love of the Russian people, and of the entire former USSR, for railways is easy to explain, if we recall, at least, the fact that this type of transport is considered the safest. Let the speed of delivery leave much to be desired, but you can always be sure that the cargo will arrive at its destination safe and sound. Indeed, according to statistics, accidents on the railway happen ten times less often than on highways, and in every news release, reports of another plane crash have become a common occurrence. A high level of safety is especially important when transporting valuable and fragile products, and such products make up a significant part of the total cargo flow today. As long as planes are falling, and roads, as you know, continue to be one of the main problems of the CIS, trains will occupy a leading position in the freight transportation market. It is no secret that in the remote corners of our countries, many roads in the spring-autumn period simply become impassable, so delivery by train remains generally the only possible option.
An important factor in favor of choosing rail freight is their relatively low cost. You simply cannot find a more profitable transport for transporting timber and building materials. There are also no restrictions on the types of cargo - bulk, bulk, volatile and food - it is possible to transport flour and cement, coal and alcohol. All that needs to be done by the owner of the cargo is to choose a suitable container (wagon, gondola car, platform, tank, refrigerator).
But with all the economic attractiveness and reliability, rail freight has a number of disadvantages.
Firstly, in small towns there are simply no railway stations, so you still have to use by car to deliver the goods to their destination. Secondly, there are a number of difficulties associated with different requirements for transportation technology in different countries. Therefore, international cargo transportation requires knowledge of many nuances and the ability to establish friendly foreign economic relations.
Today, transport companies, in order to ensure maximum comfort for the customer and the recipient of the cargo, develop a logistics scheme for each individual cargo, coordinate the features and conditions of transportation based on the characteristics of the product, and provide clear information about the train and the time of its arrival at the station.
21) The first mechanical (not hand or horse-drawn) elevator driven by a steam engine, called the "vertical railway", was installed in the United States in 1850. By the 1880s, this type of elevator was equipped large hotels and rich buildings in the US and Europe.
22) The "Underground Railroad" in the United States in the 1850s was the name given to a secret organization of abolitionists ( social movement, seeking the abolition of slavery), transporting fugitive blacks from the South to the North.
The opening of the railway communication Moscow - St. Petersburg was a real event. That's just the common people were in no hurry to use the innovation. A terrible rumbling thing caused genuine fear. In order to promote rail transport to the masses, it was decided to make travel free. And this measure had an effect. Trains very soon ceased to be afraid.
The only pity is that free travel from Moscow to St. Petersburg is a thing of the past. The history of the action was short. It was possible to ride back and forth for free only in the first three days after the opening of the corresponding railway line.
The Magic of Numbers
The first trains in Russia and Europe were available to about 9% of the population of those cities between which railway communication. Today (on average, of course) every Russian travels by rail about 9 times a year. BUT total guests have long exceeded 1.3 billion people a year.
Notable Transsib
Among domestic railways, the most remarkable was and remains the Trans-Siberian Railway. She has many statuses. For example, this railway is known as the longest in the world. The Trans-Siberian is 9438 kilometers, more than 8 days on the road. On the route, the train stops at 97 major stations and passes through many smaller ones.
And on the Trans-Siberian there is half the way. The station, located exactly in the middle of the railway between Moscow and Vladivostok, is called so. The distance from the "Half" to both cities is the same. The Trans-Siberian is also considered the coldest railway. Part of it goes through climate zone, where -62˚С is the usual temperature. A noteworthy fact: the coldest point of the route does not coincide with the northernmost.
The evolution of speed
The first passenger train in the world went on rails at a speed barely reaching the mark of 33 km / h. A little later, it was already possible to accelerate to 38 and even 42 kilometers per hour. Modern high speed trains they drive along the railroad at a speed of 320-430 km / h. And experimental innovative compositions are capable of accelerating to 603 km / h. And this, as scientists and engineers say, is far from the limit.
Freight trains also set records
The first freight railway in Russia was only 2 kilometers long. This miracle of science and technology of its time was put into action - what would you think? Horse traction!
The longest freight trains in the history of the railway traveled to different parts of the world. One transported coal (no less - 42,000 tons per flight) to Uraliz Ekibastuz back in the era of the USSR. The train consisted of 440 cars. Their total length exceeded 6.5 kilometers.
The record was broken in South Africa. Here, a train of 660 wagons entered the route. Their total length was 7.3 km. But the experiment, unlike the Soviet one, had no practical meaning. The canvas could not withstand the load, and the railway had to be closed for a long time for repairs.
Safety first
Are you afraid to ride the train? Perhaps the following fact will help you change your attitude towards this transport. Traveling by rail is 45 times safer than traveling by road. The risk of getting into an accident in a train is much lower than in a car.
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: the history of the appearance of the first locomotive and the first railways. The most unusual railway stations and railway communications. "Station" laws of France and a monument to a dog on Shibui.
- The first trains, which are trolleys moving with the help of horses, arose back in the 17th century.. In Europe. The first steam locomotive in history, pushing cars, was built by the English inventor Richard Trevithick. It happened in 1801. The purpose of such transport was the transportation of iron ore at the Pen-and-Darren plant, and the speed of its movement was 8 kilometers per hour.
- The movement on the first railway in the world was opened in England in the first half of the 19th century.. The final stops of the train route were located in the cities of Stockton and Darlington, and the road itself was intended to transport both goods and passengers. The length of such a section was 50 km, and the train consisted of only 6 cars.
- The first competition of the American steam locomotive Tom Thumb (translated as "Boy with a finger") with a horse-drawn carriage took place in September 1830. The action took place along the railroad track from the village of Reilly Tavern to the city of Baltimore. A mechanical failure of the transport itself and a malfunction in the operation of the boiler decided the fate of the competition. The victory was won by the animal, and "Thumb boy" did not reach the finish line.
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- What can be in common between professional musicians and linemen? It turns out that he has an exceptional ear for music. It is the sensitive hearing of the latter that makes it possible to detect wheel defects in time by changes in the tone of the knock.
- At the beginning of the XX century. France passed a law banning couples from kissing on the territory railway stations. The reason for this was the frequent failures in the train schedule, caused by long, "passionate" goodbyes. This rule still applies today. Warning signs are placed everywhere, and separate zones are allocated for farewells of lovers.
- The Ferrocaril Austral Fueguino (Argentina) railway is called the train to the very ends of the earth. It is the state's narrowest gauge railway (gauge is 50 cm). On the trajectory of the train is a station called "End of the World", which is incredibly popular among those who want to get to final stop it is on the "iron horse", and not on a cheaper bus. Interestingly, this road was originally intended to transport prisoners to corrective labor.
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- The monument to Hachiko, dedicated to the faithful and devoted dog, is located on the territory railway station Shibuya (Japan). The animal became famous throughout the country in the 30s. XX century, after the publication in one of the largest newspapers of an article about an old dog waiting daily at the station for its owner, who died a few years ago. At the opening of the monument, a year before his death, Hachiko was present in person.
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- You can travel between the most romantic cities in the world - Venice and Paris on the "train of love".
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- One food market settlements Thailand is located right on the railway tracks. Several times a day, 10-15 minutes before the approach of the transport, traders pack their food and lower the awnings. After the trains have passed, the market fully resumes its work.
- Passengers arriving in Monte Carlo for the first time by train are often met locals . Strangers offer beginners to play instead of them in a casino, while promising a solid reward.
- The smoothest railway, without a single turn, is in Australia. Its length is 500 km.
- The fare for The Eastern & Oriental Express, which runs along South-East Asia, is 3000-9000 USD. The train includes several restaurant cars decorated in different styles, a library, a shop, a bar, and a magnificent viewing terrace is equipped on its rear platform.
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- A three-kilometer section of the railway, located near the village of Klevan (Ukraine), is called the "Tunnel of Love".
- At the end of the XIX century. the locomotive became the protagonist of the Lumiere brothers film. Today, dozens of films have been shot about trains, among the most famous are “Runaway Train”, “Magistral”, “Station for Two”, etc.
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- Although the train is considered several dozen times safer than a car, it is advisable to give preference when buying tickets. seating in the central cars.
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