Locomotives International

In the early 1960s, I was working in Romania for a British company, but my railway interests were somewhat inhibited by the recognition that my career prospects would not be improved if I were to be thrown out of the country for taking photographs et

The Baltic country of Latvia has a population of around 1.88 million people, of whom 690,000 live in the capital, Riga. It is an historic city, founded some time in the 2nd century. The historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The country has

After nearly four days spent at Zhongwei over Christmas 1987 (featured in Steam and Rail in China), we then headed for Jiayuguan in the northwestern province of Gansu. This was a 28-hour, 1,076km-long journey, steam hauled all the way by a succession

All photographs by the Author at Lourenço Marques in February 1973 ■

During a trip to the Harz narrow gauge system in February 2023, the horrifying thought struck the writer that it was now over FIFTY years since his first visit. In 1972, our group arrived at Wernigerode on the D170 express from Berlin (the group had

The Patiala State Monorail Trainways (PSMT) was a 50 mile system constructed from 1907 from Sirhind to Alampura and Patiala to Bhavangarh. It was built on the Ewing system by Colonel Bowles. The track was a single rail on one side of the road. The lo

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The Sabah State Railway (Keratapi Negeri Sabah) is the only steam heritage railway in Malaysia. It is among the most isolated railways in the world being some four hours by air from Kuala Lumpur and a great distance from other steam venues and is a u

In the north of Moravia, in the region of Jesenicko, you can find the only narrow gauge railway operated by Czech Railways (CSD). The railway connects Třemešná ve Slezsku in Silesia - which is located on the standard gauge railway from Krnov to Jesen

The BR class EM2 (later class 77) Co-Co electric locos were built in 1953-4 at Gorton, with Metropolitan-Vickers electrical equipment, to handle passenger traffic between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield Victoria via the 1,500v DC Woodhead line. T

I visited Japan for two weeks in November 2018 and travelled on a number of ‘Bullet Trains’ during my stay. The first railway line in Japan opened in 1872 between Tokyo (Shimbashi) and Yokohama. The railway was constructed to a gauge of 1067 mm (3 fo

Eljas Pölhö writes: The mystery 4-6-2 on page 62 is Denver & Rio Grande Western No. 1006 (Baldwin 39149 of Jan 1913), later No. 800. The complete class was Nos 1001-1006 (Baldwin 39144-39149 of Jan 1913). They were reclassified from 261 to P44 and re