Just minutes earlier, this back street had been a hive of activity with a wedding in full swing, carpenters using the tracks as their workshop, street hairdressers, shoe stalls, butchers and resid... (more)

Our oarsman for the morning takes a breather as he admires the pair of ALCOs taking a heavy freight train over the holy River Ganges on the Malaviya Bridge.

Part 1 of the Pamban Bridge Trilogy 14048 crosses the cantilever section of the bridge with a passenger service fr... (more)

The Alexandria "metro" system involves EMD G22s pushing and pulling 7 coaches in and out of the city every 20 minutes or so. Here 3897 hauls a train out of Alexandria on a Saturday morni... (more)

Another shot I found on my memory card of the street running in Hanoi. Here the Southbound train leaves Hanoi as locals step into their front door and out of harms way.

I couldn't not revisit this classic location whilst I was in Hanoi, although sadly the weather wasn't as kind to me this time. Just after a rain storm, a D19E locomotive departs south from Hanoi w... (more)

3841 pauses to pass another train at Al Miaddiyyah, where the tracks are also covered by a fish market...

With the line blocked with the local signaller, a welding team works on a joint - note the lack of safety footwear or clothing!

The bright orange and yellow Colas paint scheme and the Network Rail test train coaches provides a nice flash of colour against the grey and cloudy winter moorland....

Believe it or not - this clearing in the trees is actually a station! In this highly atmospheric setting, 6163 pauses with a train from Quilon to Tenkasi on the sadly now closed metre gauge line. ... (more)

Crowds gather to watch as the crew of the CEAR weekly Makhanga to Limbe passenger train re-rail locomotive 520 after it has come off on the wye at Sankhulani station. After an hour here they were ... (more)

Part 2 of the Pamban Bridge Trilogy - 14048 nears the end of the bridge as it heads a passenger service from Tiruc... (more)

Just 5 miles after the first derailment, the weekly Makhanga to Limbe passenger train has come to grief again - this time t... (more)

The suburban newtork of Calcutta is often overlooked in favour of its bigger and better known competitor in Mumbai, however it is just as colourful and fascinating and provides the outsider with j... (more)

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.