This is one of Lisbon's 3 street funiculars. Traction is by under-street moving cables. The trolley wires are for communication purposes. Note the interlaced track above the passing loop. The line... (more)

3 broad-gauge Alco-Goodwin '930 class' - double ended but with conventional styling at one end only - with an Adelaide bound container train. These were Alco's 'World' export models, but construct... (more)

Class leader GM1 - claimed to be the first Australian-built main line diesel loco - heads east with a transcontinental freight. GMs utilsed GM equipment and were built specifically for the trans-A... (more)

A sole 'GM' class is about to remove flatcars conveying passenger's motor vehicles from the Alice Springs to Adelaide 'Ghan'.

The Alice Springs-Adelaide 'Ghan' powers through Stirling North, past British-style 'Somersault' semaphores. The train locos are just out of sight, but two similar GM class wait for a path across ... (more)

The Alice Springs-Adelaide 'Ghan' powers through Stirling North behind 2 of the Clyde Engineering built GM class - using GM equipment featuring the classic 'covered wagon' carbody.

Ten Australian built locos of 900 class delivered in 1951 and all still working in 1979, I believe! The first main line diesels for South Australia, using English Electric prime movers and electri... (more)

Triple gauge track. 2nd rail from left to far right - Standard (4ft 8.5in). Far left to 2nd from right -Broad (5ft 3in). Centre two rails-narrow gauge (3ft 6in). The NG Branch to Wilmington was on... (more)

The South Maitland was a system serving local collieries and still steam worked until the early 80s, having a fleet of 14 big Beyer-Peacock 2-8-2Ts. Two of these head loads out of a late afternoon... (more)

Homeward bound city workers cross the street in front of one of Melbourne's numerous charismatic tramcars. One Melbourne route still uses similar machines. Othere have found new lives in San Franc... (more)

A Couillet 0-4-0T shunts the screens at Sabero Washery. It was once part of a small fleet working 600mm gauge lines here - it was the sole active survivor, now converted to metre gauge. Thought to... (more)

Cistierna in Northern Spain was one of a few isolated pockets of Spanish industrial steam surviving into the late 1980s. 1885-built Sharp Stewart (Manchester, England) works the 2km branch to the ... (more)

Cistierna in Northern Spain was one of a few isolated pockets of Spanish industrial steam surviving into the late 1980s. Here a Belgian-built metre-gauge Couillet 0-6-0T waits while its train is l... (more)

Sabero colliery had both conventional screens for loading deep mined coal and also a nearby opencast area. Here a Belgian-built metre-gauge Couillet 0-6-0T waits while its train is loaded. Build d... (more)

A Glasgow to London 'Pendolino' streaks through Scotland's Lanarkshire countryside, and will be starting to brake for the 90mph speed restriction through Carstairs staion, about 1.5 miles ahead.