A Tokyo bound N700 series Shinkansen operated by JR West, is passing through Tamachi on 1 435 mm gauge track, while in the background a JR East Keihin-Tohoku Line train on 1 067 gauge pulls into T... (more)

On JR East's Tokkaido Line an E217 series 4 + 11 car EMU is seen heading south through Tsurumi-ku in Yokohama city, south west of Tokyo. The E217 series were built from 1994 to 1999 and were refur... (more)

The 34.5 km (21.4 miles) double track Yamanote Line in Tokyo follows a circular route around the city with 29 stations. This train is arriving on Track 2 at Hamamatsucho station and is running cou... (more)

The privately owned Keikyu Corporation (previously Keihin Electric Express Railway Co. Ltd.) operates a variety of EMU's on their standard gauge system with 1 500 volt DC overhead power supply. Th... (more)

The privately owned Keikyu Corporation (previously Keihin Electric Express Railway Co. Ltd.) operates a variety of EMU's on their standard gauge system with 1 500 volt DC overhead power supply. On... (more)

The 34.5 km (21.4 miles) double track Yamanote line in Tokyo follows a circular route around the city with 29 stations. This train has just left Hamamatsucho station and is running counter-clockwi... (more)

All dressed up and no place to go! The "Polar Express" comes to mind when looking at this former Japanese National Railways class C11 2-6-4 tank loco, plinthed in a public square next to Shimbashi... (more)

Despite the station at Koelenhof having been closed, the semaphore signals at both ends of the station remain in place, albeit in the "all clear" position at all times. Metrorail train 3412 is see... (more)

A combine harvester is at work in the fields near the small town of Koringberg (Wheat Mountain), as the Mondays to Fridays Malmesbury - De Hoek freight rolls by, passing a small family graveyard i... (more)

The Mondays to Fridays Malmesbury - De Hoek freight is climbing the long grade from Rust, as it makes its way through the wheatfields of the Swartland, heading north towards Morreesburg. It was a ... (more)

The grazing sheep are oblivious to its passing as the Mondays to Fridays Malmesbury - De Hoek freight winds its way through the wheatfields of the Swartland, heading north towards Morreesburg. It ... (more)

On a beautiful spring morning a lone high flying bird observes a southbound freight to Malmesbury approaching the siding at Rust, where it will cross the daily Mondays to Fridays northbound freigh... (more)

On the last weekend of each month a Premier Classe train is scheduled to run from Johannesburg to Durban and return. On a totally overcast Monday morning, the sun broke through the clouds long eno... (more)

Diesel smoke hangs in the air as these four EMD class 39-200's cross the Lakenspruit and open up for the steep climb out of the valley with their train of chrome ore heading to the junction at Bel... (more)

The luxury Blue Train operated a private charter from Pretoria to Bloemfontein for the Macufe Festival (Macufe = Mangaung African Cultural Festival). Northbound on the return journey to Pretoria, ... (more)