Portal:Trains/Did you know/April 2022

April 2022

A publicity photograph of the California Zephyr on the Feather River Route in 1949

• ...that at 5,221 feet (1,591 m) in elevation, Beckwourth Pass on the former Western Pacific Railroad's Feather River Route is the lowest pass through the Sierra Nevada range?

A Metropolitan line S Stock train departs Farrindgon's Platform 1 with an Eastbound service to Aldgate in April 2012

• ...that Farringdon station, which opened in 1863 as the terminus of the Metropolitan Railway, is one of the oldest surviving underground stations in the world?

Entrance to the Farnworth Tunnels at the end of Farnworth station's platforms in November 2008

• ...that Farnworth railway station, which originally opened in 1838, was named Tunnel due to its proximity to the Farnworth Tunnels?

A Manhattan-bound F local train arrives at Avenue P station in July 2012

• ...that the New York City Subway's F services operate on four former IND lines?