The first of the big SNCF CC-72000 diesels, No CC-72001 'Annonay' roars past the tiny station of Vauchon-Villers with the 12.48 Basle to Paris Est express.

SNCF 4-wheel diesel-mechanical shunter No Y-7510 climbs Caffiers incline from Calais with a local goods train for Boulogne.

Eurostar power car No 3216 leads the 07.02 St.Pancras International, London to Paris Nord service. In the background three lines of lorries (trucks) can be seen parked on the M20 Motorway blocking... (more)

The specially named Javelin unit No 395 014 The Victoria Cross is appropriately seen from beneath a very old English oak tree as it passes through Chilston Park forming the 06.24 Faversham to Lond... (more)

Repainted Eurostar power car No 3016 (Alias 3211) leads the 07.19 London St.Pancras to Marseille St.Charles. This is a new service that recently commenced running to the south of France and will a... (more)

The cow parsley is in full bloom, a Royal Mail van potters along the distant lane and a Freightliner 66 comes down Belstead bank towards Ipswich with the 22.50 Ditton to Felixstowe North Terminal ... (more)

It's not everyday you see a DB 101 hauling a freight train. Here 101 058-6 more normally seen with an Inter-City express heads south on the east bank of the Rhine with a mixed freight train at 08.... (more)

A former DR 'Trabbi' still in DR colours and with metal number plates approaches the Tannenbaum Tunnel on the scenic Black Forest railway with the 12.36 Offenburg to Konstanz train.

Hitachi 'Javelin' set no 395 024 'Jonnie Peacock' has just passed Km post 76 at Chilston Park forming the 12.37 St.Pancras to St.Pancras via Ramsgate service on a bright but very windy spring day.... (more)

Eurostar set 3004/3003 forms the 12.40 Paris to London St.Pancras seen passing Chilston Park on a bright but very windy spring day.

Thirty-Eight years ago the recently retired DB museum loco 103 235-8 passes Oberwesel on the west bank of the Rhine with the Hamburg to Stuttgart IC train 'Schwabenpfeil'.

Former British Rail class 90 Bo-Bo electric No 90 007 'Sir John Betjeman' climbs the 1 in 130 of Belstead bank as it accelerates away from Ipswich with the 11.30 Norwich to London Liverpool Street... (more)

'Operation Stack' - a queue of lorries (trucks) about five miles (8kms) long wait patiently to cross the English Channel over to France whilst the 10.58 Eurostar service to Brussels speeds past in... (more)

Rebuilt Merchant Navy class three-cylinder 4-6-2 No 35029 Ellerman Lines has steam to spare as it departs from Waterloo station in London with the Sunday 11am express to Exeter. This locomotive ha... (more)

On a very dull day 50 years ago to-day crowds line the track to pay their last respects to Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, as his funeral train passes en-route from Waterl... (more)