On Christmas Eve 31 years ago a Bodensee Toggenburg Bahn BDe 4/4 motor coach pushes the 12.02 Romanshorn to Luzern train down gradient from the Ricken tunnel towards Kaltbrunn station. This was th... (more)

The prototype Re 4/4 III loco, SOB No 41, hurries through the snow with the 09.27 Schaffhausen to St.Gallen train near Neukirch-Egnach. This loco is now SBB No 11351 when it and three sisters were... (more)

Earlier on the last day of 1976 (see my previous post) Bodensee-Toggenburg Bahn BDe 4/4 motor coach No 52 pushes the 09.50 Romashorn to Arth Goldau train up the steep gradient from Biberbrugg. Thi... (more)

On the last day of 1976 Bodensee-Toggenburg Bahn BDe 4/4 motor coach No 52 heads away from Rothenthurm with the 12.32 Arth Goldau to Romanshorn train. This was the predecessor of the superb Voralp... (more)

British Railway class 47 2,750hp Sulzer 12LDA28C engined Co-Co No 47 618 'Fair Rosamund' crosses Combe viaduct at Saltash just after crossing Brunel's Royal Albert bridge over the River Tamar from... (more)

Wartime Co-Co electric No 194 568-2 approaches Aschaffenburg, past the former Bavarian State Railway roundhouse, with a westbound freight on the Gemunden to Frankfurt am Main line. Sadly the footb... (more)

DB three-cylinder 2-10-0 No 044 497-6 has just left the Reilerhals tunnel through from the Mosel Valley with a southbound mixed freight on the Trier to Koblenz main line.

Former Baden State Railways KPEV design P8 4-6-0 No 38 3810 comes off the bridge across the River Mosel from the Petersberg Tunnel and slows for its stop at Eller station with the 10.49 Trier to C... (more)

For the 150th anniversary of Belgian railways in 1985 this streamlined Atlantic, No 12 004 was specially put back into working order to haul some special trains. Here it is seen leaving a tunnel n... (more)

Former British Railways class EM2 Co-Co electric loco No 1504 departs from Hook of Holland with the 'Rheingold' express for Germany and Switzerland while NS 1300 class No 1312 waits with the 'Holl... (more)

With a lovely three-cylinder beat this class 44 2-10-0 takes the line to Bayreuth out of Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg with a freight train bound for Nuremburg. The line behind the train leads to the famed ... (more)

Expecting a red locomotive I had intended to photograph this train with the front of the loco against the River Reuss in the background. However seeing the train in the distance with what appeared... (more)

A new railway that is not on the map! Former DLC class 66 No DE 6304 on hire to French contractor ETF with an empty ballast train on the LGV Est phase 2 line that is under construction in Eastern ... (more)

The use of a pair of the classic DB class 103 locos from the museum fleet on regular InterCity trains has been one of the most welcome developments this year. Here seen from the Loreley rock No 10... (more)

Former Furka Oberalp Bahn rack and adhesion motor coach No 95 'Andermatt' pushes its train up the steep gradient from Goschenen to Andermatt on a day of early autumn snow.