Guinness World Records 2018

TRANSPORT CONTENTS Trains & Railways................ 202 Urban Transport................. 204 Customized Cars............... ...

Trains & Railways TRANSPORT STEEPEST RAILWAY GRADIENT The Katoomba Scenic Railway in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, ...

TRANSPORT MOST SOUTHERLY OPERATING RAILWAY The Southern Fuegian Railway or El Tren del Fin del Mundo (“The Train at the End of t ...

Urban Transport TRANSPORT FASTEST LIFT Designed by the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (JPN), the high-speed lift NexWay travels ...

TRANSPORT MOST CROWDED ROAD NETWORK (COUNTRY) According to the latest available figures published by The Economist, as of 2014 c ...

Customized Cars T RANSPORT MOST EXPENSIVE SET OF CAR TYRES On 10 May 2016, a set of four tyres were sold by the Dubai office of ...

TRANSPORT FASTEST BUMPER CAR Colin Furze (UK) restored and modified a vintage bumper car – aka dodgem that went on to clock a t ...

Monster Trucks FIRST MONSTER TRUCK TO JUMP OVER A BOEING 727 In 1999, the USA’s Dan Runte jumped over a Boeing 727 aeroplane in ...

TALLEST LIMOUSINE From the ground to the roof, the world’s highest limo measures 3.33 m (10 ft 11 in). Built by Gary and Shirley ...

Military Vehicles TRANSPORT HEAVIEST FIFTH-GENERATION FIGHTER BY TAKE-OFF WEIGHT Fifth-gen fighters possess advanced avionics an ...

TRANSPORT LARGEST SURFACE COMBAT SHIP WITH A WAVE-PIERCING HULL Wave-piercing hulls are long and thin, and designed to cut throu ...

Transport Round-Up TRANSPORT FIRST OPEN-TOP DOUBLE-DECKER ROPEWAY CABIN Peaking at 1,898 m (6,227 ft) above sea level, the Stans ...

TRANSPORT BUSIEST AIRPORT FOR DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS According to the Airports Council International (ACI), in 20 ...

< 5 m Smallest... SUPERLATIVES You could fit the smallest country into the smallest continent nearly 17.5 million times. But ...

Tinker Toy, a male blue point Himalayan-Persian, measured 7 cm (2.75 in) tall and 19 cm (7.5 in) long when fully grown (aged 2.5 ...

Sports Michael Phelps (USA) has won the same number of Olympic gold medals – 23 – as India, Nigeria, Egypt and Portugal combined ...

SPORTS Usain Bolt (JAM) has challenged van Niekerk to a 300 race. They hold the^ m second- and third-fastest times for the rarel ...

Most appearances at the World Cup before hosting Russia (or its predecessor state, the Soviet Union) has appeared at 10 World Cu ...

SPORTS YOUNGEST PLAYER IN A WORLD CUP Norman Whiteside (b. 7 May 1965) was picked to start in Northern Ireland’s first group-sta ...

MOST ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE (EPL) GAMES UNDEFEATED WHEN SCORING James Milner (UK) scored in 47 EPL games without suffering defea ...