Another vintage Swiss photo showing 0-8-0WT No 8854 awaiting its next duty shunting in the marshalling yards at Chiasso in 1964. It was one of eight similar engines, Nos 8801/02 and 8851-56 built ... (more)

Having seen Georg Trueb's and Markus Gemuer's wonderful photos of the Pilatus Bahn posted in the past week I though viewers might like to see one of the original rack & pinion steam railcars used ... (more)

Star of the Gotthard 125th special last weekend (see photo id 200921), DB 01 Pacific No 01 202 is seen 40 years ago waiting at Marktredwitz with the 14.42 Munich to Hof D zug which it has hauled f... (more)

A rare pre-war former Deutshe Reichsbahn diesel railcar and trailer have just arrived at Cochem on an excursion service from the Koblenz direction. This was the only non-steam train I saw on the M... (more)

By this date a rare sight in Switzerland. MThB 2-6-2T No 2 is seen at the Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn depot in the company of two SBB Eb 3/5 2-6-2Ts Nos 5829 and 5820 at Weinfelden. The MThB had four of t... (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)

Cross border freight. Former Paris Lyon Mediteranian Railway four-cylinder compound 4-8-4T No 242TA27 has just crossed into Belgium with a short freight train from Lille in France.

The same pair of BLS Class 465 Bo-Bo electric locos as in the previous photo with a southbound Hupac 'piggy-back' train are seen from the same vantage point as they head away from the camera over ... (more)

One of the DB class 01 pacifics rebuilt with a large boiler arrives at Cochem with the 12.40 'personen zug' from Koblenz to Trier shortly before electric traction took over. School children surge ... (more)

From the first production batch of class E10 (later class 110) electric locos, No 110 107-0 has been rebuilt with a 'bugel' front in place of the orginal flat front probably as a result of acciden... (more)

One of the second series of V100 diesel-hydraulic locos that were slightly more powerful than those that became the 211 series, No 212 214-1 crosses the River Neckar as it approaches Horb station ... (more)

A young lady risks life, limb and poodle as domed roof tram No 258, built in c1936, turns from Commercial Street into Fitzalan Square on a service from Vulcan Road to the City. When this photo was... (more)

A steam locomotive crew watch as one of the three prototype class E320 dual-voltage electric locos passes the freight locomotive depot at Saarbrucken with a freight train bound for France.

The same train as in photo id 200517. Henschel metre gauge 2-8-2T No E141 enters Avenida da Franca station with the 13.15 Povoa de Varzim to Porto Trindade train. The line running off to the left ... (more)

The first of the three Southern Railway Co-Co electric locos No 20001 has just passed Clapham Junction on the Brighton main line with the morning Victoria to Newhaven boat train. These locos drew ... (more)