The international train from Moscow to Tashkent (Uzbekistan) is re-engined from a new (GE EVO) diesel to an old ex-Soviet (VL80) electric as it passes through Kazakhstan.

A team work on the tracks of Lahore Goods Yard next to the station, whilst in the background waits a new large GE locomotive imported from the states hauling a large container train.

A chinese built CAT locomotive appraoches Rawalpindi. The decorations to the loco had been added to inaugurate a new container terminal in the port of Karachi the two days earlier before it was tr... (more)

The signaller at Jhelum poses between trains next to his UK style lever frame.

Early on a snowy and very cold morning...

Just after sunrise an Intercity train heads out of Dhaka as people walk to work.

A relatively lightly loaded express approaches Dhaka with only a smattering of roof riders...

A slightly different angle from above at Karwan Bazaar.

A few minutes earlier this crossing was the centre of the local market, but with a bit of bell ringing and some shouting most of the melee has moved enough for a 1965 built ALCO product to arrive ... (more)

11466 departs Guwahati with a local train towards New Bongaigaon. These ALCO engines are less than 10 years old (this one was built in 2013), but with the twin advancement of electrification and E... (more)

Its virtually impossible to get a photo in Bangladesh without people in it! Here 2318 runs round its Balaka Exp to Dhaka at Mymensingh, with a few extra passengers just for the fun...

6638 descends towards Kalakund with the morning train on the scenic Metre Gauge line from Mhow.

Life carries on as normal, whilst the Turag Commuter train approaches Dhaka with a train full of workers behind one of the strangest looking ALCO descendants, a YDM4B.

Not the first photo on railpictures.net from this viewpoint and on seeing a foreigner with a camera approaching, the security of the building pointed me up to the roof with no questions asked! ... (more)

One of the old 1960s ALCO designs departs Noapara at sunrise with the Khulna to Benapole "commuter" service.