DR East European style TEE VT18.16 diesel train set No VT18.16.07 heads out of Prague forming the Vienna to Berlin 'Vindabona' service on a dull day in June 1969. The eight units were built in 196... (more)

DB diesel-hydraulic No 220 083-3 approaches Horb over the River Neckar bridge with the 09.13 Stuttgart to Milan express prior to electrification.

'The Italian Job' - a train load of BMW Minis manufactured at Cowley, Oxford in the UK, climbs past Gurtnellen on the northern ramp to the Gotthard tunnel enroute to Italy. (Stop press - the leadi... (more)

A former Prussian State Railways 'P8' 4-6-0, originally No 2492 Essen built in 1918, arrives at Oudenaarde with the 15.18 Renaix to Gent St.Pieters train. It was one of 168 of these locomotives g... (more)

A Swiss Re 4/4 I Bo-Bo electric comes along the shore of the Bodensee (Lake Constance) as it leaves Bregenz in Austria with the 12.39 Geneva to Munich 'Rhone-Isar Express' which it will work throu... (more)

Celebrating 75 years of the Glacier Express between Zermatt and St.Moritz, metre gauge HGe 4/4 No 106 passes Hospental with the eastbound 'Glacier Express' formed of new observation cars.

Thirty-Eight years ago the recently retired DB museum loco 103 235-8 passes Oberwesel on the west bank of the Rhine with the Hamburg to Stuttgart IC train 'Schwabenpfeil'.

A former East German BR 142 electric loco, still in DR livery but now owned by LokCoop in Switzerland, climbs from the Lake of Zurich to Schindellegi with the 16.53 Zurich-Altstetten to Einsiedeln... (more)

Henschel metre gauge 2-8-2T No E141 departs from Avenida da Franca with the 13.15 Povoa de Varzim to Porto Trindade train as an Allen railcar comes in the opposite direction. This line has been re... (more)

When this line was still the Bodensee Toggenburg Bahn, the 16.18 St.Gallen to Herisau train crosses the Sitter Viaduct as it leaves the city of St.Gallen. This is one of those alarming locations w... (more)

One of the SNCF 'Monocabine' Bo-Bo electrics, now all withdrawn, has just passed the closed station at Stambach with a northbound freight train on the Strasbourg to Metz main line. It is running t... (more)

Wartime Co-Co electric No 194 568-2 approaches Aschaffenburg, past the former Bavarian State Railway roundhouse, with a westbound freight on the Gemunden to Frankfurt am Main line. Sadly the footb... (more)

The 09.57 St.Pancras to Brussels train hurtles through the snow as it heads south through Kent to the Channel Tunnel on a morning when few other trains are running in the south east.

One of the clasic DB class 103 electric locos, painted in the later raspberry red livery, approaches St.Goar on the west bank of the River Rhine with the Inter-City train 'Konsul' from Kiel to Mun... (more)

RENFE standard oil-fired 2-8-2 No 141F-2245 leaves the wayside station at San Felices with the 10.45 omnibus train from Bilbao to Zaragoza.