Locomotives International

The phrase ‘Fairlies at War’ might perhaps make you think of those miniature Pechot-Bourdon machines trundling around trench railway tracks in Flanders or at Verdun. However, there had been an earlier and faster-moving conflict on the other side of t

The extensive maintenance and upgrade works on France's metre-gauge 62.6 kilometre Ligne de la Cerdagne (Train Jaune or Yellow Train) in the Eastern Pyrenees have continued in 2023, with closure of the section between Villefranche-Vernetles-Bains and

From 1991 to 1996 I worked as a lecturer at the university of Sibiu. This gave me the opportunity of seeing a lot of steam events (local anniversaries, charter trains for foreign railway enthusiats etc.) and items of industrial history. In 2021, the

Madagascar is situated around 250 miles off the coast of eastern Africa. At 228,900 square miles it is one of the largest island nations in the world. It is roughly 2.5 times the size of the United Kingdom, yet it has less than half the population (3

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In early April the Third Sector operator Echizen Tetsudo, in Fukui Prefecture, revealed details of its refurbished 1010, a twocar Series 1000 EMU, acquired from the Shizuoka Tetsudo in 2021. This was one of a batch of 12 600 V DC trains built by Toky

Over the Easter weekend, R Class 4-6-4 No.711 (BP 27001/1951), now operated by Steamrail Victoria, hauled special trains from Melbourne to Bendigo and Echuca, and was kept in steam at Steamrail's Williamstown depot on Tuesday 11 April for the benefit

Negotiations are taking place between Argentina and Brazil with a view to the reopening of the cross border standard gauge rail link between Paso de los libres (Argentina) and Uruguaiana (Brazil). Argentina particularly wants to achieve access to the

The railway “El Ultimo Ramal” (‘the last branch line’) from Talca to Constitución in central Chile is among Chile's most exciting railway journeys. El Ultimo Ramal is an 88.4 km (56 mile) narrow-gauge railway line in Chile with a gauge of 1000 mm. It

The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Eisenbahnfreunde Zollernbahn e.V. (EFZ), which is based at Rottweil, near to the Black Forest. Two of its main line registered locos operated railtours out of Tubingen during the weekend of 18 & 19 February

In 1934 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad introduced a revolutionary train, the Zephyr, which kicked-off the streamlined era on US railroads. This was a unidirectional articulated set comprising a diesel-engined power car, a passenger car and

This is a 760 mm gauge Austrian line that wanders through the trees from the connection to the Semmering railway at Payerbach to the mountain town of Hirschwang, 5.2 kms away. It is run by the volunteers of the ÖGLB (Austrian Society for Local Railwa

Piotr Kumelowski writes: Below are a few photos of a Kujawy narrow gauge freight operated by a private SKPL on 15th February 2006, exporting Brzesc Kujawski sugar all the way to Kazakhstan. The route taken was: Brześc Kujawski - Ostrowy Cukrownia 750

During a cruise to the Eastern Atlantic Islands and Western Europe, the ship, the 181,000 ton MSC Virtuosa visited Lisbon and docked at the cruise terminal very near to Santa Apolonia station. With the sun moving into the ‘right place’, this new, but