An Australian railfan in Europe
I ve written a lot in the past about trains and trams switching from left to right hand running across Europe, but here is a new one: high-speed trains switching sides when crossing the border between France and Spain. Google Maps [ ] Continue reading
I ve written about a few odd track layouts on European tram networks before, but this is something difference a quadruple track tramway in the Czech city of Brno. Photo by Paul Korecky, via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-2.0) The section of [ ] Continue reading
Germany has a long long history of both full sized and model railways, and at a number of railway stations across the country they combine the two with coin operated modellerlebniswelten. Wimmelbahn photo A company called Wimmelbahn a play [ ] Continue reading
In the Germany city of Stuttgart their trams have an interesting feature bicycle trailers! Photo by Joma2411, via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0) The bicycle trailers are found on the Stuttgart Rack Railway, a 2.2-kilometre electrified railway opened in 1884 to [ ] Continue reading
Another recent online find that caught my eye was a photo of a train headed along a street in Poland so where was it taken, and why was a train headed along there? Photo by Radek Koleśnik, Kołobrzeg Nasze [ ] Continue reading
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When I travelled by trains across Russia back in the early-2010s, the usual livery on the passenger trains I saw was the plain grey of the Russian Railways, with the «РЖД» logo in red across the side. And the oddballs [ ] Continue reading
DJs are known for spinning tunes on a turntable but what if they themselves were being spun around on a turntable themselves? Well, Slovakian DJ producer Johnny de City did that recently, thanks to Slovak rail operator Železničná [ ] Continue reading
This photo of a Deutsche Bahn train running through on tracks almost covered by floodwater is quite extraordinary, but when I looked closer it at I found something else I had never seen before Y-shaped railway sleepers. So that s [ ] Continue reading
Over the years there have been many examples of former railway lines being turned into roads. But in the Caucasus Mountains above Sochi in Russia the opposite is happening the former Krasnopolyanskoe Highway running through the Akhtsu Gorge is [ ] Continue reading
