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September 2021

The 1848-built Berlin station building
- ...that four different instances of Berlin station in Connecticut have been destroyed by fires?

Map of the proposed Cross Harbor tunnel
- ...that proposals for a Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel in the greater New York City region have been proposed as early as the 1890s by Pennsylvania Railroad?

First class coach of Hrvatske željeznice (Croatian Railways) at Budapest Keleti station in June 2010
- ...that as of late 2020, only 17.5% of the entire Croatian Railways network allows for speeds over 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph)?

Crianlarich Station, view north towards Tyndrum, Scotland, in 2017
- ...that the landowners whose land was used in 1894 for Crianlarich railway station in Scotland turned down the offer of having all the proceeds from the two station tea-rooms in perpetuity?

Stadtbahn train at Wieslensdorf Halt in December 2005
- ...that a two year long closure of the Crailsheim–Heilbronn railway to rebuild it for use as line S4 of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn is estimated to have saved Deutsche Bahn about €4 million?

Coventry station in 2018
- ...that Greater Cleveland RTA's Coventry station was constructed in 1913 by Standard Oil Company of Ohio, and it included two gasoline pumps along westbound Shaker Boulevard?

Old Cottbus Hauptbahnhof entrance building on historical postcard. View from the platforms
- ...that the station building for Cottbus Hauptbahnhof was located between the tracks as an "island station" (German: Inselbahnhof) from its opening in 1867 until the late 1970s?

A CSR electric train in Mitre Line in November 2014
- ...that the new diesel multiple unit trains built by CSR for use by Corredores Ferroviarios could not enter service until all of the station platforms on the San Martín Line were rebuilt to accommodate them?
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