An ancient looking 2-4-0T No 11 of the Moselbahn is turned at Andel depot. This loco was built by Humbolt of Cologne in 1906. Photo by the late Peter Gray.
Just over 51 years ago nicely turned out RENFE oil-fired 4-8-0 No 240F2273 approaches Salamanca on the now closed line from Zamora with the 06.30 Astorga to Salamanca train omnibus. The handsome M... (more)
DB driving trailer No VB147 053 leads a couple of old four-wheeled carriages which are propelled by a V36 diesel-hydraulic 0-6-0 shunter out of Köln Deutz on a service to Köln Hbf from possibly ... (more)
ETAT railway four-cylinder compound 4-6-2 No 231-674 at Paris Saint Lazare station in c1920. This was one of the ETAT-TP (Travaux Publics (Public Works) type Pacifics first built in 1914 and event... (more)
SNCF, former Prussian (KPEV) G8-1 0-8-0 No 040.D.72 is about to be un-coupled from the 05.38 train from Dunkirk which it has brought from Lille. This train conveyed the through Wagon Lit sleeping ... (more)
MER tram car No 7 dating from 1894 arrives at Laxey station at an unknown date c1920, This tram and others like it still operate on this line. (Photographer unknown from a whole plate glass negati... (more)
A large 2-8-2T belonging to the Cologne-Bonn Railway at Brühl-Vochem shed. It was built by Krupp in 1941 and is believed to have been scrapped in 1963. Photo by Peter W. Gray.
Those were the days - The stage is set as British Railways Standard class 5MT 4-6-0 No 73043 starts away from its stop at Deganwy station on the last lap of its journey to the Welsh holiday resort... (more)
Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn 2-8-2T No 262 stands at Königstein fresh from overhaul just eight days previously. Built by Henschel in 1954 it was not to remain in service for many more years ... (more)
DB E44 057 buffers up to its train in Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf before leaving on the 29km journey to Mulheim (Baden) in July 1955. Photo by the late John P. Wilson of Nottingham.
When O.S. Nock visited Miyazaki depot he had the good fortune to find this C57 Pacific bedecked with two Japanese flags and a golden chrysanthemum after working the Imperial train. Within hours it... (more)