A DB dual voltage 181.2 crosses the River Mosel from the Petersberg tunnel and approaches Ediger-Eller station with train IC339, the 16.24 Luxembourg to Koblenz. To-day may well be the last time l... (more)

A scene that will very soon be history - DB 218 496-8 arrives at Langenwang with an RE train from Munich to Füssen as a BR 642 DMU waits for the single line to clear on a service to Augsburg. DB R... (more)

Rebuilt Southern Railway West Country class 4-6-2 No 34046 Braunton is masquerading as Battle of Britain class Pacific No 34052 Lord Dowding (the classification was different solely according to t... (more)

Keith Heller in the pink - DB Cargo, formerly Schenker, No 67 018 'Keith Heller' brings the Belmond British Pullman round the curve from Charing at Westwell Leacon with the 10.47 London Victoria t... (more)

Southeastern catches the #trainbow for LGBT+ Pride season - a Hitachi Javelin unit has had a vinyl rainbow added to each end for the summer season and is seen as the front unit forming the 07.25 S... (more)

Chiltern Railways class 68 No 68 013 powers north past the village of King's Sutton in Northamptonshire with the 16.15 London Marylebone to Kidderminster train. The church spire of St.Peter and St... (more)

SBB Re 6/6 # 11603 "Wädenswil", one of the four prototype locomotives of the series that has been making news recently after it was sold to RailAdventure Gmbh and repainted in a white an... (more)

Bodensee Toggenburg Bahn Be 4/4 electric loco No 11 leaves Roggwil-Berg station with the 17.30 Romanshorn to Herisau train.

Belgian class 23 Bo-Bo electric loco No 2355, one of 83 built from 1955, waits to leave Aachen Hbf with the 09.31 express to Ostende.

50 Years ago - A Belgian Type 201 diesel loco leaves Roubaix with the 13.17 Antwerp to Lille train. Introduced in 1955 these locos later became class 59.

50 Years ago - SNCF 242TA68 approaches Lille with train 336, the 16.38 Tourcong to Paris Nord on September 2, 1968. The remaining examples of these 4-cylinder compound 4-8-4Ts, originally built ... (more)

50 Years ago - SNCF 141 R 498 is seen near Le Haut Banc on the climb to Caffiers from the south the the 12.20 Paris Nord to Calais-Maritime ' La Freche d'Or' (Golden Arrow) train. The use of a 2... (more)

50 Years ago - Another 'Liberation Mikado' of the SNCF built by the Montreal Locomotive Works, No 141 R 1272 blasts away from Boulogne-Ville station with the 08.45 Paris Nord to Calais-Maritime ... (more)

50 Years ago to-day - SNCF 4-cylinder compound 4-6-2 No 231K22 climbs Caffiers incline with train 84, the 14.24 Calais-Maritime to Paris Nord rapide. This engine, preserved in Germany after some... (more)

50 Years ago - Sister 141R to my previous photo on this day, 141 R 1202 heads away from Boulogne-Maritime with train 24, 13.18 to Paris Nord. Note the later type of smokebox door fitted to this en... (more)