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)

50 Years ago - SNCF 141 R 1201 comes downhill towards Boulogne from Wimille-Wimereaux with train 16, the 08.02 Calais Ville to Paris Nord. This ‘Liberation Mikado’ was from a batch of 100 built b... (more)

A pair of SNCB two-car EMUs leave Welkenraedt on a local service towards Liege. The leading unit is built of stainless under licence from Budd, Philadelphia, USA in 1956.

One of the eight SNCB class 25.5 dual voltage electric locos is about to pass into Belgium with the 'Etoil du Nord', 08.53 Amsterdam to Paris Nord where it will arrive at 14.20. To-day the equival... (more)

A very colourful SNCB single railcar approaches the tunnel at Voneche past some, even then, rare semaphore signals on a service from Dinant to Bertrix.

Luxembourg Railways diesel loco No 1811, fresh from overhaul, approaches Wilwerwiltz heading north on the Luxembourg City to Trosvierges line with a very short freight train.