A morning train to Thiaroye departs from Hann station on the Dakar Petit Train de Banlieue behind one of the imported Indian ALCO YDM4s. I believe this is the first photo from Senegal on rp.net!

If you're lucky with both trains running on-time, you can catch parallel running here on two different gauges at this time of day... Sadly on this day the metre gauge train was late (as usual) so ... (more)

With engineering and railways still captivating the imagination of the young in India, scenes such as this with passengers crowding around to watch an engine couple up are still common... Here a p... (more)

Catering is often an integral part of a railway journey, and this guy will sell you hot samosas whether you're sat inside, hanging off the outside or on the roof of the train!

The ever threatened narrow gauge line from Gwalior to Sheopur Kalan spends a lot of time in the built up city of Gwalior, rather than the rural landscapes narrow gauge lines are usually associated... (more)

On a busy Monday night, passengers await their overnight trains to all corners of India....

6755 pauses at Itaunja as it nears the end of its journey with the Izatnagar to Aisbagh Express - at 311km one of the longest journeys still possible on India's rapidly disappearing Metre Gauge ne... (more)

Its a bit hard not to attract attention when you're a westerner stood on a wall above the traffic with a camera... The morning Sabalgarh to Gwalior passenger approaches its final stop passing one ... (more)

Hitachi built M5 number 777 pulls into Galle station with the daily train from Matara to Vavuniya.

Seven years ago I stood in the same spot and took this photo. Here ALCO DL560 (the same as the ubiquitous Indian WDM2) arrives at Mount Lavinia station... (more)

With the lights of London's business world all around it, a DLR train takes another set of commuters home.

With brand new colour light signals already in place to replace the magnificent old semaphores, ALCO 16320 and a classmate head away from Jakhal, light engine to work a freight train.

Narrow gauge railways are still clinging on in some of the more remote areas of India and here the morning train from Malsar is approaching its destination of Dabhoi in the Gujarat plains. A few y... (more)

As the first rays of morning sun sneak through, ALCO 16353 of Ludhiana shed waits to depart with the daily Jammu Tawi to Ahmedabad train which it will haul to Firozpur (210 miles away) where an AL... (more)

On a cold and cloudy morning in the Rajasthan desert, a pair of ALCO YDM4s arrive with a train to Jaipur to pass an opposite working. With the march of progress both the metre gauge traction and t... (more)