In contrast to the British built 4-6-4T that I posted just before this one, here is a French built 4-6-4T of the Nord Railway waiting to work a suburban train at the Gare du Nord in Paris. These e... (more)

The prototype Paris Lyon Marseille Railway 2D2 electric loco No 242.BE.1 is seen when new fron CGC/Oerlikon in 1927. It is fitted with third electric rail pick-up shoes for working on the Maurienn... (more)

One of the remarkable 0-6-2+2-6-0T compound articulated goods locomotives designed by Gaston du Bousquet, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Nord Railway, for hauling goods trains round the Paris Ce... (more)

Another Canadian Northern Railway 4-6-0 from my archive. This is obviously an older slide-valve machine than No 171 posted earlier and probably never made it to the amalgamation with the Canadian ... (more)

Stanier 'Black Five' 4-6-0 No 44870 pilots Fowler three-cylinder 'Patriot' 4-6-0 No 45515 Caernarvon over Saddleworth viaduct with the 5pm Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle express on a September... (more)

Shortly before the invasion of 1940, Rotterdamsche Tramweg Maatschappij diesel tram No 318 prepares to leave Rosestraat in Rotterdam with a pair of bogie trailer carriages. Scanned from a 116 size... (more)

Belgian Railways streamlined 4-4-2 No 12.003 has just arrived at Tournai with a train from Brussels. Just six of these unusual locomotives were built by Cockerill and were delivered in 1939. No 12... (more)

Another image from a post card size film negative by an unknown photographer taken in the 1930s. I am guessing that this veteran 2-8-0 is a CB&Q loco, it has Burlington Route on the tender. More i... (more)

From the camera of Arthur E. Reynell, VR broad gauge diesel-electric No B 72 leaves Albury with an express for Melbourne, Victoria.

Here is a third large boilered GNR 4-4-2, No 4444 seen storming past Belle Isle on the way out of Kings Cross with a special for the horse racing at Newmarket. The train is formed of former South ... (more)

An SNCF Saurer engined diesel railcar built in 1946 to a pre-war PLM design stands beside Bo-Bo diesel-electric loco No BB-66021 at Grenoble depot.

Following my previous posts showing railway horses shunting wagons this is my third and final photo depicting horse shunting. Taken in slightly more recent times, 1951 as against 1926 and 1938, th... (more)

This 2-6-2T was originally built by SLM Winterthur in 1905 for the Gurbetalbahn in Switzerland. It was from a batch of three pairs of similar engines that were for the TSB, GTB and EZB railways an... (more)

Mighty Bessemer 2-10-4 No 606 stands at an unknown location in the 1930s. It was built by Baldwin in 1930.

Converted Royal Scot 4-6-0 No 46106 Gordon Highlander approaches Diggle Junction with a Liverpool to Newcastle express. The train has just left Butterhouse tunnel on the long closed Micklehurst lo... (more)