Locomotives International

I visited Indonesia as part of a group in May 1977. The originality of the programme was that a major part of transportation in Java was by train. In addition I was able to take free time to visit some places of interest for a railway fan. Everywhere

Readers will almost certainly know about the history of how Berlin evolved after 1945, but a very brief summary. The city was divided into four sectors: British, French, US and Soviet. The first three then became ‘West Berlin’ and the Soviet sector ‘

From Sudan Notes and Records Vol. 20, No. 1 (1937), pp. 107-124. The building of this extraordinary fragment of a railway and its abandonment in the face of the enemy after only twenty miles of track had been laid was one of the minor incidents of th

An apparent almost binding rule in Chilean State Railways (EFE) locomotive policy was that no type of locomotive should have driving wheels of a diameter greater than 5´6”, which, by coincidence, was the gauge of the Southern Network (RS) main line a

In looking at the history of this town and its railways, it is necessary to go back to the early to mid-Victorian era. The town area was surveyed by John Turnbull Thomson in 1858 and grew into the attractive colonial style town that we know today and

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When the decision was taken to create a railway on Corsica, Bastia was chosen as the operating base because it is there that the administrative offices and workshops could be found. In 1979, Bastia’s railway importance was greatly reduced with the re

When a Chinese friend discovered that I was returning to visit China on 27 December 2014, she, with her husband and son, met me at Beijing Capital Airport early in the morning, where we had breakfast together. We then got in their car and drove into

The 3’ gauge (914 mm) railways of Donegal have always cast a spell over railway enthusiasts. Even though the remaining network was closed back on 01.01.1960, it is still very much alive. There is continuing interest in the Railway, and a great many b