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The sign on a Queensland whistle post on the old Gibson Island line. In Australia, whistle posts consist of a pole or upright flat-bottom rail with a white or reflective yellow X. In Queensland, A whistle post is mounted on a metal pole or old rail. The board is a flattened white triangle with rounded edges and a black W.
Train horns are sounded where a whistle post (marked with the letter "S" for siffler – "to whistle") is present. If the whistle post is labelled "J" (meaning jour – "day"), the horn is only to be sounded between 07:00 and 20:00. Horns must also be sounded when passing an oncoming train, and shortly before reaching the last car of the train.
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's electronic and concrete work titled, Hymnen includes a sample recording of the "Horst Wessel Song". [53] It premiered in Cologne, Germany, on 30 November 1967. It was also performed in New York's Philharmonic Hall (now David Geffen Hall) and London's English Bach Festival among other international ...
Originally, the railway company of each German state had its own signalling system. After these companies were merged into the German Imperial Railway (Deutsche Reichsbahn), a common signalling system, the H/V system, was created based on two key types of signal. However, Bavaria was permitted to use its own designs of signal, with slightly ...
The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52 [note 1] is a German steam locomotive built in large numbers during the Second World War. It was the most produced type of the so-called Kriegslokomotiven or Kriegsloks (war locomotives).
The following classes of Kriegslokomotive were procured by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and other customers (industrial and military railways) during the Second World War: Former Kriegslokomotive, rebuilt by Deutsche Reichsbahn Steam locomotives (Kriegsdampflokomotive or "KDL") DRB Class 52 (KDL 1) BMB Class 534.0 (KDL 2) [7] DRG Class 42 (KDL 3)
Kaiserstandarte (Emperor's standard) of 1871. Gott mit uns ('God [is] with us') is a phrase commonly used in heraldry in Prussia (from 1701) and later by the German military during the periods spanning the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945) and until the 1970s on the belt buckles of the West German police forces.
80 013 (Hagans factory no. 1227, 1927) is non-operational at the German Steam Locomotive Museum in Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg. [1] 80 014 has been cosmetically restored and is in the South German Railway Museum, Heilbronn (Süddeutsches Eisenbahnmuseum Heilbronn). 80 023 has belonged to the Dresden Transport Museum since 1981.