Sister Thalys TGV unit to that featured in Jean-Marc Frybourg's PC/SC cab shot (photo id 262389), No 4305 races south near Arras on a Cologne to Paris service. I call this location the 'big dip' a... (more)

SNCF four-voltage Co-Co electric No CC-40108 'Hendaye' passes Appilly with the 'Etoil du Nord', the 08.53 Amsterdam to Paris Nord Euro-City train. Opening of the LGV Nord and introduction of the T... (more)

The prototype T478.1 diesel loco No T478 1001 heads the 16.23 Brno to Bfezova nad Svitavou local train formed of 4-wheel carriages.

50 years ago - RENFE oil-fired 4-8-2 No 241F2230 has just passed Pancorbo station with a heavy southbound freight train on the climb from Miranda de Ebro shortly before electrics took over.

Another load of lorries (trucks) winds its way up the Brenner pass riding piggy-back by rail. They are coming round the U curve at St.Jodok on a beautuful Autumn day. These trains run approximatel... (more)

One of the massive Class Ae 4/7 4-8-2 electrics No 10902 built in 1927 enters St.Gallen with the 08.22 Zurich HB to Chur.

A view of the small motive power depot at Cochem showing former Prussian G10 0-10-0 No 57 1200 and a pair of BR 50 2-10-0s Nos 2646 and 2426. These engines were based here primarily to bank (pushe... (more)

A pair of Britain's newest class of high-speed trains built by Hitachi in Japan, Nos 395 004 and 395 002 speed past the camera at close to 140mph on a driver training run from Ramsgate to London S... (more)

One of the last remaining former Prussian (KPEV) P8 4-6-0s which came into French ownership after the First World War, No 230F365 stands in light steam at Sarreguemines depot. This engine was buil... (more)

Hannah Cockroft meets Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson - Hitachi Javelin units are now named after British Olympic medalists under the banner 'Britain's Fastest'. Here 395 027 Hanna Cockroft forms the 12.... (more)

This Czech 2-10-0 has just passed through the 'Iron Curtain' from Czechoslovakia to Schirnding in West Germany with the 10.45 Pague to Paris 'Zpadni Express'. At Schirnding the 2-10-0 will give wa... (more)

Third-rail electric No E5004 has just arrived at London's Victoria station with the 'Night Ferry' sleeping car train fron Paris and Brussels. The French baggage cars and Wagon Lits sleepers came o... (more)

BR/Sulzer 1co-Co1 diesel-electric No D47 lesaves Millers Dale with a Manchester Central to London St.Pancras train. This centre section of this scenic line is now abandoned.

Polish 2-8-2 No Pt47-13 arrives at Lublin from the east with an evening rush-hour train.

With Burg Katz in the foreground an evening Frankfurt to Koblenz local has just left the Loreley tunnel beside the River Rhine hauled by a class 143 Bo-Bo electric. On the cliff above the tunnel i... (more)