Veteran Swiss 4-6-2 electric No 10646 heads the 16.26 Schaffhausen to Rorschach train. The Untersee through which the River Rhein flows from the Bodensee (Lake Constance) can be seen in the backgr... (more)

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)

The rare sight of a diesel railcar owned by a Swiss railway. Shortly before the Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn was electrified the 15.48 Konstanz to Wil train calls at Siegershausen amongst the orchards of K... (more)

A Swiss Krokodil in normal service hauling the 17.00 pick-up freight from Bauma to Winterthur shortly before the last of these venerable locos were withdrawn from normal service.

This week South Eastern Trains started a preview service of three trains in the morning from Ashford to London St.Pancras and return in the evening using the new Hitachi 140mph Javelin trains. So ... (more)

Forty-Five years before my photo id 288745 of the famous SBB two-car red arrow railcar No 1021, the 'Churchill Pfeil', it stands in Arbon station forming the 07.57 Schaffhausen to Rorschach train ... (more)

The famous SBB two-car red arrow railcar No 1021, the 'Churchill Pfeil' (Churchill Arrow used by the wartime British Prime Minister during a visit to Switzerland in 1946), stands in Immensee stati... (more)

A Forchbahn train heads away from its Zurich termnus at Stadelhofen on a service to Esslingen. These trains use the metre gauge Zurich tram lines to reach their own tracks at Rehalp. In the righth... (more)

One of the fairly new SBB double-deck EMUs departs from Stadelhofen station on an S-Bahn service to Rapperswil as a sister unit heads into Zurich.

The only Re 4/4 II owned by the MThB, No 21 is about to propel the 9.18am train to Kreuzlingen away from Arbon. This locomotive is now SBB No 11172 and has sadly lost its Thurgau crest from the ca... (more)

The prototype Swiss Re 4/4 III electric locomotive, Sud-Ost-Bahn No 41 brings the 16.09 Einsiedeln to Zurich Enge train past a meadow full of buttercups as it decends the very steep gradient from ... (more)

In the days when a few SBB Re 4/4 IIs were painted in the red and cream TEE livery, No 11252 takes the Geneva to Milan 'Cisalpino' along the side of Lac du Leman (Lake Geneva). Georg Trueb recentl... (more)

An elderly Czechoslakian 2-8-0 leaves Nezamyslice with a freight train for Olomouc. This design originated in Austria as two-cylinder compounds but were rebuilt as simples by the CSD. The bolts in... (more)

One of the ten semi-streamlined former Madrid, Zaragoza & Alicante Railway 2-cylinder 4-8-2s heads south from Miranda de Ebro with a freight train running wrong line due to electrification work on... (more)

Super power for the 13.00 Miranda de Ebro to Logrono local in the form a Norte type Four-cylinder compound 4-8-2 that is almost at the end of its days.