Locomotives International

When the 21st century dawned, it had been around a decade since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communism in Poland. That period had not been kind to the rural railways of the Polish State Railways (Polskie Koleje Państwowe, or PKP) and ma

Through late March and into April 2010 I was in New Zealand for my third visit, visiting family and friends on the North Island. Normally my wife is with me, but this time I came out alone (as she has done in the past) and hired a car from Rent a Den

The Shibaura Institute of Technology Junior and Senior High School was inaugurated in 1922 as the Tokyo Railway Junior High School. It was one of the projects related to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Shinagawa (later,

In 1983 my wife and I were part of a Dorridge Travel group led by the late David Ibbotson making our first visits to South America. Included on the trip was a visit to Puerto Casado in Paraguay, a remote location with a 750mm gauge rail-served quebra

50 years ago the Interrail ticket was introduced. When I was 19, I bought the ticket for the first time (in 1972) and then again in 1973 and 1974. During the first two trips I saw some steam in Italy here and there. The journey through the Pustertal

It is logical that a manufacturer of road petrol or diesel engined vehicles should see railways as a target market, using the same technology and engines. Renault were very successful in this, especially with their well known railcars. Berliet also p

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We reported in Issues 127 and 128 of the plan to re-introduce freight services from Paraguay to Argentina, partly because of the low water levels in rivers which link Paraguay with the Argentine deep-sea ports, and now comes news of a test train for

The overhaul of Glenbrook Vintage Railway's (GVR) Ww 644 which included the fitting of a new welded boiler plus a new left hand cylinder was completed in June this year. The GVR now has both of its Ww class steam locomotives back in service after an

Of all the countries in Europe that maintain heritage steam locomotives available for charter, Bulgaria, for all its relatively small size, and its position as a relatively poor former Eastern European country, its State railway BDZ must be congratul

In common with most other young men in the late 1940s and 1950, possibly even further on in time, I was drafted into His Majesty's service. As a young railwayman it was almost inevitable that the Royal Engineers and then Longmoor were chosen for me.

Michael Thomson writes: The middle photograph on p.51 is arriving NOT departing. Right hand running. Nigel Mundy writes: John Organ's last paragraph mentions two miniature steam on the Lozère line – I suggest these may be only steam outline however n