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The cab and number plate of First Great Western locomotive 57604 "Pendennis Castle" in November 2010
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A Tobu 7800 series 4-car EMU approaching Ogose Station on the Tobu Ogose Line in 1977
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A train at Totnes station passing the unused atmospheric railway engine house in 2013
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One of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway's Fairlie locomotives circa 1915
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An TLR0600 train on the Toyama Light Rail Toyama Port Line in 2015
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The former Tower station and preserved train behind it in 2017
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The Tower City Center complex main building in 2012
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Portal:Trains
Did you know
Schematic drawing of a track circuit on unoccupied track
track circuits
signalling
fail-safe
An TLR0600 train on the Toyama Light Rail Toyama Port Line in 2015
Toyama Light Rail Toyamakō Line
light rail transit
Japan
The former Tower station and preserved train behind it in 2017
solar panels
Tower station
Tower, Minnesota
The Tower City Center complex main building in 2012
Tower City Center
A train at Totnes station passing the unused atmospheric railway engine house in 2013
engine house
platform
Totnes railway station
atmospheric power
Uinta-Piceance Basins geologic map
Uinta Basin Rail
Denver and Salt Lake Railroad
The southern signal box at Torquay station in 2009
signal box
Torquay railway station
Devon
England
One of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway's Fairlie locomotives circa 1915

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