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April 28 – 2008 Shandong train collision: Sixty-six people are killed and almost 250 injured when a passenger train from Beijing careers off the rails and slams into another train in eastern China. The rail accident, the worst in China in more than a decade, happens near the city of Zibo in Shandong province .
The Heide Express (literally: "Heath Express") is the name used by the Lüneburg Transport Society (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verkehrsfreunde Lüneburg) or AVL to market special railway trips with their historic trains on the East Hanoverian Railways (OHE) railway network in northern Germany.
McCloud Railway No. 25 pulls a 2008 railfan excursion train, on one of its last excursions for the McCloud. McCloud Railway No. 25 is a 2-6-2 "Prairie" type steam locomotive that worked on the McCloud River Railroad. It was purchased new from the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in 1925.
...that although the London and North Eastern Railway's Class V2 2-6-2 locomotives were built for mixed traffic use, they could almost match LNER's express passenger 4-6-2 Pacifics for sustained high speed running and were timed at speeds of up to 101.5 mph (163.3 km/h)?
The Resort Special was a seasonal night train from Chicago, renowned for serving resort towns such as Traverse City, Charlevoix, Petoskey on the northwestern part of Michigan’s lower peninsula. [1] Begun by the Pere Marquette Railway , it was a rare instance of a named Pere Marquette train continuing after the Chesapeake & Ohio absorbed the ...
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Railway services introduced in 2008 (25 P) Pages in category "Train-related introductions in 2008" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
Interior of the John Street Roundhouse undergoing restoration in May 2008 ... and from the station's reopening in 1906 until 1939 special mortuary trains stopped at ...