DB class 012 oil-fired Pacific No 012 063-4 waits to leave Nordeich-Mole with the 11.07 D-Zug (express train) to Köln. Originally streamlined, this three-cylinder engine was No 01 1063 until 1968... (more)

DB class 042 oil-fired 2-8-2 No 042 360-8 heads north from Meppen with a miixed freight on the Rheine to Emden line as the evening mist begins to rise. This engine was built by Arnold Jung Lokomot... (more)

DB class 23 2-6-2 No 023 002-9 leaves Heidelberg with the 12.42 personenzug to Heilbronn via Sinsheim at Easter 1970. The engine crew have chalked 'Frohe Ostern' (Happy Easter) on the smoke deflec... (more)

DB driving trailer No VB147 053 leads a couple of old four-wheeled carriages which are propelled by a V36 diesel-hydraulic 0-6-0 shunter out of Köln Deutz on a service to Köln Hbf from possibly ... (more)

DB V200.0 diesel-hydraulic No V200 035 at Cologne Deutzerfeld depot flanked by class 78 4-6-4T No 78 094 on the left and class 03 Pacific No 03 245 on the right in May 1957. Photograph by Lawrence... (more)

One of the prototype DB V200.0 diesel-hydraulic prototype locos, No V200 001 built by Krauss Maffei that entered service in 1954, is seen at an unknown location in its early days. (photographer un... (more)

DB diesel-hydraulic high speed rail car set No VT08 502 awaits to departure signal from the Fahrdienstleiter at Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf on the last lap of its journey from Bremen to Basel SBB in a... (more)

DB E44 057 buffers up to its train in Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf before leaving on the 29km journey to Mulheim (Baden) in July 1955. Photo by the late John P. Wilson of Nottingham.

One of the numerous DB centre cab diesel hydraulic locos, many of which still survive working for infrastructure companies, waits to leave Zweibrücken (Hbf) with the 13.52 personenzug to Landau (... (more)

Heritage train "Rheingold" with E 10 1239 on the way from Bâle to Düsseldorf.