In late 1935 the NS fitted streamlined cladding to 3700 class 4-6-0 No 3804 which then re-entered service in January 1936. The purpose was to reduce coal consumption by reducing the wind resistanc... (more)

SNCF, former Cf du Nord, 4-cylinder compound 4-6-0 No 230.D.89 stands at Fives locomotive Depot in Lille during an RCTS visit.Photo by the late Peter Gray.

SNCF, former Prussian (KPEV) G8-1 0-8-0 No 040.D.72 is about to be un-coupled from the 05.38 train from Dunkirk which it has brought from Lille. This train conveyed the through Wagon Lit sleeping ... (more)

Belgian Railways streamlined 4-4-2 No 12.003 has just arrived at Tournai with a train from Brussels. Just six of these unusual locomotives were built by Cockerill and were delivered in 1939. No 12... (more)

Belgian Railways three-cylinder 4-6-0 No 62.004 at Brussels Midi shed. This was a war reparations loco and was originally Prussian (KPEV) S10-2 No 1204 Cöln. Fifth-teen of these engines were hand... (more)

An ancient looking 2-4-0T No 11 of the Moselbahn is turned at Andel depot. This loco was built by Humbolt of Cologne in 1906. Photo by the late Peter Gray.

A large 2-8-2T belonging to the Cologne-Bonn Railway at Brühl-Vochem shed. It was built by Krupp in 1941 and is believed to have been scrapped in 1963. Photo by Peter W. Gray.

DB 01 Pacific No 01 171 is seen in Frankfurt (M) Hbf after arrival with an Eilzug. Photo by the late Peter Gray.

A photo taken at the experimental Alweg monorail near Cologne during an RCTS visit. A DB bus waits below that was transporting the party. Photo by the late Peter Gray.

Dawn has just broken as former Nord Railway Pacific No 231.C.17 from the first batch of so called Super Pacifics built in 1923-24 appears to be making an odd manoeuvre at the Dunkirk-Ferry station... (more)

One of the Prussian G8-1 class of 0-8-0s given to the French railways as war reparations after the end of World War I, SNCF 040.D.21 rests at Fives depot, Lille during an RCTS visit. Originally 4,... (more)

Another of Chapelon's masterpieces, Pacific No 231 E 11 in ex-works condition, is shunted on to the turntable at Fives depot, Lille by an equally pristine 151TQ 0-8-0T during an RCTS visit. Photo ... (more)

One of the famed Chapelon Nord Pacifics, No 231 E 24, has just un-coupled from an express from Paris Nord, with carriages from the 'Blue Train', and runs forward before reversing over the scissors... (more)

DB driving trailer No VB147 053 leads a couple of old four-wheeled carriages which are propelled by a V36 diesel-hydraulic 0-6-0 shunter out of Köln Deutz on a service to Köln Hbf from possibly ... (more)

DB V200.0 diesel-hydraulic No V200 035 at Cologne Deutzerfeld depot flanked by class 78 4-6-4T No 78 094 on the left and class 03 Pacific No 03 245 on the right in May 1957. Photograph by Lawrence... (more)