Now the train must wear a mask - Hitachi 'Javelin' unit No 395 017 froms the 13.25 London St.Pancras roundabout service to St.Pancras via Chatham and Dover. The smoke in the sky on the right was a... (more)

RhB Ge 4/4 II No 651 'Fideris', with a special Glacier Express livery, crosses the Vorder Rhein just before Tavanasa with train 906/908, the combined 10.00/10.13 Zermatt to St.Moritz 'Glacier Expr... (more)

SBB Re 4/4 II No 11173 has just been acquired for preservation by the Association of Depot and Rail Vehicles Koblenz (DSF), Switzerland. The loco is the first of its type to be preserved and is se... (more)

Veteran SBB electric loco No 10603 dating from 1921 arrives at Arbon with the 08.03 Schaffhausen to Rorschach train. Note the low platform and high steps to board the carriages back then.

You can't keep an old Eurostar down - Sets Nos 3214/3223 with spare power car 3999 at the far end are forming a test train from Ebbsfleet International to Ashford International after having come f... (more)

One of the former British Raill Brush built Co-Co dual voltage (750DC and 25kv) locos No 92 036 'Bertolt Brecht' passes Lenham Heath Freight loops on HS1 with the 18.15 Dollands Moor to Ripple Lan... (more)

To-day marks the 80th Anniversary of the appeal made by General De Gaulle to his fellow countrymen to resist on June 18,1940 and broadcast by the BBC on 22nd June following the fall of France. In ... (more)

Farewell - Shadows lengthen for DB Co-Co No 151 058-5 as it crosses the Fränkische Saale with a freight train that is about to take the line through the Spessart hills to Ashaffenburg. This loco ... (more)

Just two and a half months ago before lock-down we said farewell to the last un-refurbished original Eurostar set Nos 373 214/223. On May 19/20 the sets made a test run from Brussels Midi to Londo... (more)

Just two months ago before lock-down we said farewell to the last un-refurbished original Eurostar set Nos 373 214/223. Well yesterday and the day before the sets made two trips from Brussels Midi... (more)

Farewell - The last unrefurbished e300 Eurostar, mixed half sets 3214 and 3223, form the 12.58 from London St.Pancras on their last journey to Brussels Midi. On their return later in the afternoon... (more)

DB Cargo No 67 024, in Pullman livery, brings the Belmond British Pullman round the curve from Charing at Westwell Leacon with the 11.07 round Kent luncheon train from London Victoria via Ashford ... (more)

Almost the last unrefurbished e300 Eurostar, mixed half sets 3214 and 3223 form the 12.58 London St.Pancras to Brussels Midi approaches Km post 77 on HS1 at Lenham Heath. The two other halves of t... (more)

The 12.52 Brussels Midi to London St.Pancras Eurostar service passes Km post 77 on HS1 at Lenham Heath running five minutes early on its 2 hour 10 minute journey between capitals during a nice bre... (more)

A third 'orange' TGV from my 1989 visit to the South of France. Set No 31 is leaving the tunnel near the Château des Baumelles between St.Cyr and Bandol forming the 10.07 Nice to Paris service.