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On August 28, 1830, Peter Cooper who built the Tom Thumb engine accepted a challenge from a horse-drawn train. Tom Thumb was undergoing testing when the race took place. The steam engine lost due to the broken belt. 1).
The longest straight stretch of tracks is located in Australia. It is a 297 miles long (478 kilometers) track across the Nullarbor Plain, a part of the Trans-Australian Railway. 2).
The longest name belongs to a train station in the UK which is called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Anglesey. 3).
The busiest train station in the world is said to be Gare du Nord in Paris. It serves around 250 million people a year! 4).