DB Pacific No 01 096 arrives at Friedrichshafen Stadt with the 17.21 Lindau to Kiel D-zug. The 01 4-6-2s were very rare in this area only lasting a few months after replacing the last of the Bavar... (more)

An Austrian Federal Railway loco heads south along the east bank of the River Rhine with an ERS Railways container train from Duisburg Ruhrort Hafen to Sopron. Burg Soonek (castle) can be seen on... (more)

SBB Ae 3/6 II rod-drive electric, built by SLM forty years earlier in 1924, waits to leave Olten with a local train.

Former SBB E 3/3 'Tigerli' (small tiger) No 8522 approaches Triengen-Winikon with the 17.35 train from Sursee. This engine (and No 8521) was fitted with a pantograph and form of emersion heater to... (more)

Former SBB E 3/3 'Tigerli' (small tiger) No 8522 is about to run round its train at Sursee via this small turntable before return to Triengen. This engine (and No 8521) was fitted with a pantograp... (more)

SBB tilting train set No 500 006-5 'Johanna Spyri' crosses the Zgraggental viaduct as it approaches Intschi on the Gotthard north ramp forming the 15.12 Lugano to Basel SBB service.

An SBB Re 4/4 II crosses the Intschi Reuss Bridge as it comes down the Gotthard north ramp with the 10.47 Locarno to Zurich HB IR train. This bridge is sometimes refered to to-day as the Intschi T... (more)

A new railway that is not on the map! Former DLC class 66 No DE 6304 on hire to French contractor ETF at the rear of a ballast train about to enter the Vosges tunnel on the LGV Est phase 2 line th... (more)

It is 50 years ago to-day since I took my first photograph of a foreign train. It was this gleaming Pacific we found awaiting the arrival of the SS Canterbury from Folkestone at Boulogne Maritime ... (more)

A former Cisalpino ETR 470 tilting train forms the 14.25 Milan to Zurich EuroCity service seen passing the lovely house that dominates the hill side at Haggrigen. The train will shortly enter the ... (more)

Three Re 4/4 II locos Nos 11333, 11340 and 11349 cross the Haggrigen Bridge as they descend from the Gotthard tunnel with a short northbound freight train. This bridge was swept away by a rock sli... (more)

SBB 'Infrastrukturdiagnose' self propelled inspection saloon heads north running on diesel power downhill at Wassen on the Gotthard north ramp.

Former Furka Oberalp Bahn metre gauge rack and adhesion motor luggage van No 53 dating from 1972 pushes the 15.56 train to Andermatt up the steep gradient out of Goschenen. One of the new low-entr... (more)

MOB metre gauge motor coach No 3004, built in 1944, still sees use for powering engineers trains.

Former Visp Zermatt Railway HGe 4/4 II metre gauge rack and adhesion loco No 5 'Mount Fuji' runs alongside the Mattervispa river after passing under the ancient Kinbrueke and the Neu Brueke (new b... (more)