Inside a workshop building at Vinh depot on 12th November 2023 sit Duong Sat Viet Nam (DSVN - Vietnam Railways) DLW/Alco DL535 class D13E 719 and Cockerill D18E 609. The D13E is being overhauled ... (more)

Duong Sat Viet Nam (DSVN - Vietnam Railways) D19E 977 arrives at Gia Lam station with LP6 0910 Hai Phong - Ha Noi on 10th November 2023. The first 40 D19E were built at Ziyang in China, the second... (more)

Duong Sat Viet Nam (DSVN - Vietnam Railways) CKD built D12E 638 passes over D. Le Duan level crossing in Ha Noi with LP6 0910 Hai Phong - Ha Noi on 8th November 2023. These 1200hp locos were seen ... (more)

Duong Sat Viet Nam (DSVN - Vietnam Railways) CKD built D12E 630 departs Ga Ha Noi on 6th November 2023, passing over P. Nguyen Khuyen at the first level crossing on the approach to the railway str... (more)

Duong Sat Viet Nam (DSVN - Vietnam Railways) CKD built D12E 630 passes along one of the railway streets in Ha Noi whilst on the rear of LP2 0610 Hai Phong - Ha Noi on 6th November 2023. The narrow... (more)

The Long Bien Bridge was designed by Gustav Eiffel (he of tower fame) and opened in 1903 - at the time it was the longest bridge in Asia. It was then subsequently heavily damaged in the Vietnam Wa... (more)

The driver prepares himself for the departure of the overnight express train to Hanoi, of which he'll drive for the first 4 hours or so to the town of Yen Bai.

I couldn't not revisit this classic location whilst I was in Hanoi, although sadly the weather wasn't as kind to me this time. Just after a rain storm, a D19E locomotive departs south from Hanoi w... (more)

Another shot I found on my memory card of the street running in Hanoi. Here the Southbound train leaves Hanoi as locals step into their front door and out of harms way.

Another view of the (back)street running in Hanoi, where the street slightly widens for the junction with Khâm Thiên a street food vendor washes out her dishes, seemingly oblivious to the 10 coa... (more)

Above the bustling markets of uptown Hanoi, D9E 233 (a GE built U10 with a CAT engine) gets ready to depart with a train towards the border with China.

Just minutes earlier, this back street had been a hive of activity with a wedding in full swing, carpenters using the tracks as their workshop, street hairdressers, shoe stalls, butchers and resid... (more)

In 1968 North Vietnam railways built this Mikado class steamer of parts from scapped engines originally delivered in 1953 by Société Alsacienne de Construction Mecaniques in France

Taken from our vehicle on the way to Halong Bay, Chinese-built Doi Moi D19E-906 heads to Haiphong with its load of containers paralleled by the ubiquious Vietnamese motorbikes.

In 1968 North Vietnam railways built this Mikado class steamer of parts from scapped engines originally delivered in 1953 by Société Alsacienne de Construction Mecaniques in France