Surprising to find this still happening in 2017! This is Chartham, near Canterbury, in Kent. The crossing keeper is kept busy with 6 trains per hour, during the day.

Metre gauge 2915 stops at Sholashahar Junction with the 1415 Chittagong University to Chittagong.

Local folk sift through ashes from the steam locos at Pingdingshan, looking for unburned pieces of coal to take home.

This attractive streamlined Pacific was kept at Sujiatan loco shed as part of a future museum collection. I don`t know if the museum was ever created.

Standard gauge wagons loaded with logs are carried on transporter wagons on the 760mm gauge Zillertalbahn. Here O+k loco D8 heads away from Jenbach at Rotholz.

2 feet 6 inch gauge, ZDM3 No 177 nears it`s terminus at Joginder Nagar after a 101 mile run from Pathankot. It has taken 9 hours and 10 minutes to do this! Note the semaphore sighting signal, top ... (more)

Kangra Valley Railway, 2 feet 6 inch gauge ZDM3 No 177 rearranges it`s train at Joginder Nagar, ready for the 101 miles return run to Pathankot.

Back in 1982, 47182 has derailed after running through the trap point at Northolt Junction, South Ruslip.

The most ignored sign, ever?

Metre gauge YG 2-8-2 No 3409 arrives at Silaiman with a morning local from Madurai in 1989. I presume that there are semaphore signals showing their red paint on the other side of the backing boa... (more)

Early morning sun illuminates a well stocked yard at Green River.

Metre gauge 0-8-2T rack loco 37387 was built by SLM in switzerland in 1920. Similar engines were built right up to 1952! Here it pushes the daily train from Mettupalayam to Ooty out of Coonoor. Th... (more)

Tiny battery loco No 10 rests between duties at Wei Jin coal mine.

Surprising scenes in 2011. Fleets of donkeys were in use at New Delhi to move spent ballast and earth during engineering operations. We counted nearly 50 animals around the tracks. An empty EMU pa... (more)

Plenty of cycle rickshaws are still on the crossing as metre gauge Henschel No 2715 leaves Mymensingh on train50, Balaka express, the 1500 to Dhaka.