Brand new DMU 72609 passes Sisteron on the 0750 Briancon to Marsailles. The previous night had given an unseasonaly, early, heavy fall of snow.

A set of wheels for an SY loco are illuminated in the shops at Liuzhou.

A JS loco storms the steep climb from the China Rail exchange yard with a train for Cheng De steelworks.

60033 brings a train of tanks out of the seldom used Fort Dunlop factory siding at Castle Bromwich.

45045, Coldstream Guardsman, had a heavy collision with Saltley viaduct while shunting the nearby Lawley Street freightliner terminal. The loco was withdrawn following this. The driver involved be... (more)

SY 1743 is under maintenance in the shops at Baotou steelworks.

It`s shift change time at Baotou steelworks and, so far, a couple of SYs have arrived to get a new crew. Conditions underfoot are dodgy and it would be easy to fall on to your camera!

ALCO 3807 passes a group of nomadic people (and their camels) camped out next to the line near Kolpur. The train is the Bolan Mail, 1530 Quetta to Karachi.

4868 catches the last rays of the sun as it leads an eastbound auto rack train up the Cajon Pass

The Khost branch receives just one train per day. Here GE 4010, built Erie in 1970, arrives at Khost with the 0715 from Sibi.

John McEnroe stares out from an advertisement board at Raynes Park as a London Waterloo to Horsham service passes. 4722 was built in 1951 and was a 1936 design! These units were phased out in 1983... (more)

Metre gauge tram 401, built in 1935, heads for Villa Opicina. It has climbed the incline from Trieste with a special cable tractor loco. Note bicycles are carried on the front of the car.

ALCO 3815, with 3814 pushing, struggle up the 4% grade out of Mach with a train for Quetta. I had walked over a mile from Mach station in a temperature of 44c (111f).

33109 crawls through Weymouth`s streets with the 0954 London Waterloo to Weymouth Quay, boat train.

3 SY locos share the loco shed at the huge Baotou steelworks.