One of the prototype DB V200.0 diesel-hydraulic prototype locos, No V200 001 built by Krauss Maffei that entered service in 1954, is seen at an unknown location in its early days. (photographer un... (more)

DB diesel-hydraulic high speed rail car set No VT08 502 awaits to departure signal from the Fahrdienstleiter at Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf on the last lap of its journey from Bremen to Basel SBB in a... (more)

DB E44 057 buffers up to its train in Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf before leaving on the 29km journey to Mulheim (Baden) in July 1955. Photo by the late John P. Wilson of Nottingham.

Another photo by the late George R. Grigs showing NS four-cylinder 4-6-0 No 3903 leaving Utrecht with the 15.34 D-Zug to Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Henschel & Son, Kassel built 32 of of these fin... (more)

Three-cylinder, former KPEV S10/2 4-6-0, DRG No 17 258 leaves Nijmegen at 18.02 with an express from Amsterdam to Cologne in June 1935. Photo scanned from 116 size film (7 x 10cm) by the late Geor... (more)

A very ancient Est Railway 0-6-0T built in 1858 and later modified with three of its sisters for working the 3.3km long Gargan to Livry tramway in the north east suburbs of Paris. Engine No 0.208... (more)

One of the remarkable 0-6-2+2-6-0T compound articulated goods locomotives designed by Gaston du Bousquet, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Nord Railway, for hauling goods trains round the Paris Ce... (more)

Alsace Lorraine Railway three-cylinder 2-10-0 No 5608 passes through Arlon station in Belgium with a northbound goods train from Longwy in France just before the outbreak of World War II. This one... (more)

ETAT railway four-cylinder compound 4-6-2 No 231-712 waits to leave Paris Saint Lazare with an express for Dieppe in 1935.This was another of the ETAT-TP type Pacifics first built in 1914 and even... (more)

ETAT railway four-cylinder compound 4-6-2 No 231-674 at Paris Saint Lazare station in c1920. This was one of the ETAT-TP (Travaux Publics (Public Works) type Pacifics first built in 1914 and event... (more)

ETAT railway four-cylinder compound 4-6-0 No 230-678 waits to leave Paris Saint Lazare with a passenger train in 1935. This engine was from a class of 87 built in 1908-12. Photo from a 116 size fi... (more)

A remarkable looking ETAT, former Ouest Railway, 2-4-2 waits to leave Tours with a train omnibus for Sarge in 1935. There were originally 120 of these locos built as 2-4-0s in 1879-84 of which 20 ... (more)

This photo is from a postcard size glass negative by the late John Macartney Robbins who died in 1953. It shows former Ouest Railway 'Bicyclette' 2-4-0T No 21-629 at Sotteville depot during a visi... (more)

This photo is from a postcard size glass negative by the late John Macartney Robbins who died in 1953. It shows Stephenson Locomotive Society members standing in front of an Etat (former Ouest) ra... (more)

This photo is from a postcard size glass negative by the late John Macartney Robbins who died in 1953. It shows an ancient Ouest Railway tank locomotive built by Buddicom of Rouen in 1844 during a... (more)