DB Class 03 4-6-2 No 03 244 waits in Cochem station with the 07.02 Saarbrucken to Cologne express.

Former DB 2-10-0 No 50 2988 comes round the loop above Epfenhofen with a Weizen to Zollhaus-Blumberg train on the Wutachtalbahn in Southern Germany.

English Electric Bo-Bo No 1404 climbs the steep gradient from the Porto Sao Bento terminus to Campanha station with the 12.43 train to Ermezinde. These locos are very similsar to the British Railw... (more)

Late on a Sunday evening Britannia Pacific No 70020 "Mercury" has arrived at Kings Cross with a special train from York.

A DB class 110 in the beige and turkouise livery leaves St.Georgen with the 12.04 Konstanz to Frankfurt train on the Swarzwaldbahn (Black Forest Railway).

This former Portuguese Railway metre gauge 0-4-4-0T Mallet was visting the Baie de Somme Railway from a museum line in Switzerland. It was built by Henchel & Sohn at Kassel, Germany in 1905.

The 07.42 Mannheim to Hamburg Intercity train leaves the Bett tunnel south of St.Goar on the left (west) bank of the River Rhine as barges chug up and down stream around the Loreley rock. Photo ta... (more)

Rebuilt Merchant Navy class three-cylinder 4-6-2 No 35029 Ellerman Lines has steam to spare as it departs from Waterloo station in London with the Sunday 11am express to Exeter. This locomotive ha... (more)

The 9.00 Irun to La Coruna Talgo train climbs past the ancient village of Pancorbo. I gather the last of these, now venerable Talgo trains, is about to be or has been taken out of service.

A Swiss Federal Railway former TEE four-voltage unit now in Euro-City colours has just passed St.Saphorin beside Lac du Leman (Lake Geneva) on the 14.00 Milan to Lausanne service. One of these ico... (more)

SBB Ae 3/6 II rod-drive electric, built by SLM forty years earlier in 1924, waits to leave Olten with a local train.

Transiition from steam. A4 Pacific No 60025 'Falcon' is about to enter the Gasworks tunnel as it leaves Kings Cross with the 15.10 to Newcastle via Sunderland train. Class 46 No D174 waits in the ... (more)

Imagine my surprise when this southbound freight appeared beside the Rhine hauled by an old E94 type Co-Co electric loco. Details of the train are unknown.

One of the mighty SNCF 241P four-cylinder compound 4-8-2s arrives at St.Germain des Fosses with the 09.03 Paris Lyon to Clerment Ferrand express. The Mountain will have worked the train from Never... (more)

The two re-liveried Eurostar power cars were given a test run on HS1 between St.Pancras and Ashford International. Here the train is seen passing through part of the ancient Chilston Park on the r... (more)