A pair of DB Co-Co electrics cross the River Mosel from the Petersburg tunnel to Ediger-Eller station with a heavy northbound haul of six-axle hoppers. The vinyards on the slopes beyond the bridge... (more)

The 07.01 Paris Nord to London St.Pancras Eurostar is seen in the golden glow of a cold misty morning in Kent.

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.

A pair of electric motor coaches, with another banking at the rear, climb towards Ozpizio Bernina beside the snow covered frozen Lago Bianco with the 10.55 St.Moritiz to Tirano train on a brillian... (more)

In one of my earliest colour transparencies three generations of Gotthard motive power are seen at Bellinzona depot in 1964. Four-cylinder compound 2-10-0 No 2959 was built by SLM in 1915, Be 6/8 ... (more)

Sister Thalys TGV unit to that featured in Jean-Marc Frybourg's PC/SC cab shot (photo id 262389), No 4305 races south near Arras on a Cologne to Paris service. I call this location the 'big dip' a... (more)

DR Reko (rebuilt) class 52 2-10-0 No 52 8171 fitted with a Giesl ejector chimney faces the camera while unrebuilt 52 1715-3 faces away at Bw Stendal.

The 16.09 Boulogne Hoverport (Le Portel) to Paris train formed of a gas turbine unit has just passed Noyelles-sur-Mer. These units connected with the SeaSpeed hovercraft service across the English... (more)

The 12.51 TGV service from Calais Ville to Paris Nord comes up the connecting spur from Calais-Frethun station to the LGV (high speed) line formed of a pair of former Paris-Sud Est TGV units. The ... (more)

Georg Trueb has recently put two shots of the preserved former Bodensee-Toggenburg Be 4/4 No 15 on to RailPictures. Here is one of the five locos of this type when in everyday service heading away... (more)

A 41 yar old slide of the southbound 'Alpen Express' from Copenhagen and Hamburg to Venice and Rome heading south from the Brenner pass. This view to-day would probably have the Brenner Autostrada... (more)

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)

The prototype Italian Pendolino train - the Grand Father of them that was built in 1976 - comes down from the Brenner summit towards Colle Isarco returning from trials in Germany. It was pure chan... (more)

A morning Koblenz to Frankfurt local approaches Assmannshausen on the River Rhine propelled by a class 110 Bo-Bo electric. These former express locos first introduced in 1957 (this one dating from... (more)

With Burg Katz in the foreground an evening Frankfurt to Koblenz local has just left the Loreley tunnel beside the River Rhine hauled by a class 143 Bo-Bo electric. On the cliff above the tunnel i... (more)