Working the 9R39 15:32 Bedford - Three Bridges service.
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Portuguese Railways (CP) Broad Gauge (1668mm) 2-6-4T CP 080 at Regua with a Linha do Douro service - 06/05/1970.
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© 2026 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm monochrome negative.
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SBB 11115 passes through Lausen hauling the Inter Regio IR 2176 09:47 Locorno to Basel SBB in May 2014. The Class Re 4/4" had taken over the service at Luzern where the train reversed direction for the final leg of the journey via Olten.
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09.51: AM80 EMU 432 heads back into Berchem from Antwerpen Centraal.
If had gone into Centraal at 09.15.
The AM80s have a local nickname of “breaks” due to the break in design from the older ones used by SNCB.
All 140 sets were delivered between 1981 and 1983 to SNCB by BN - La Brugeoise et Nivelles, with 432 delivered in 1983.
Initially built as 2-Car sets (Car types “ABDx” & “Bx”), they have a maximum speed of 160 km/h and were known for their very good acceleration.
But this changed when SNCB added a middle carriage (Car “B”) to all sets between 1991 and 1993. The single powered car lost acceleration with the extra 50 tonnes weight of the 3rd carriage.
From 2009 to 2019 all sets went through a major modernisation refurb. This added mobility access and bike storage facilities as well as passenger information screens and AC for the drivers.
Set 398 was released from its refurb on 28/09/2015.
All but 4 of the 140 in the Class are still active, as at April 2026:
- 321 had a collision at Liege on 14/08/2000, was stored for repair, but formally withdrawn on 10/12/2006 as a parts donor.
- 355 is ‘in parc” (stored) after a collision with a truck at Ardooie and derailment on 14/11/2023. Officially stored September 2024 and has donated its Bx car to set 322.
- 407 is undergoing repairs after a collision with a bus at Zedelgem on 29/11/2024. Not noted as officially stored, this one may or may not return.
- 426 is the same as 407, after a collision with an excavator at Belsele on 12/03/2024.
Being now over 40 years old, we can expect more withdrawals for parts donors if they have accidents, or expensive problems are found at major overhauls.
11.26: SNCB’s HLD 20 No. 2014 passing Berchem with a container intermodal to Antwerpen Noord and the Docks.
You can see how tired the livery is for these loks which were coming to the end of their working life.
Cosmetics were ignored, just engineering to keep them going.
And if one had a major problem, it was retired and used as a parts donor.
2014 was built by BN - La Brugeoise et Nivelles and delivered to SNCB on 29/03/1976.
25 Class 20s were built by BN between 1975 and 1978.
They were designed for running fast passenger services or even heavy freights on the lines to Luxembourg.
They were both multi-voltage and powerful (5,150 kW) with a max speed of 160 km/h.
They were so powerful, they were not allowed to work in multi at full power, as there was a risk of breaking couplings.
By the early 2010s, they were demoted to mainly shuttle freights between Zebrugge and Antwerp, plus some peak passenger services within Belgium.
But with B-Logistics wanting to run only 3 freight loco classes (13, 28 and 77s), they were withdrawn over 2012 and 2013 a few years before they were due to go.
2014 had a Grand Revision (GR) overhaul on 27/10/06.
Some of the class were only released back into service for 2 or 3 years after a GR when they were stored and withdrawn, due to B-Logistics decision.
2014 was stored on 04/03/2013 and formally withdrawn on 10/04/2013.
Like many classmates, it was sent to the Ecore scrapyard at Aubange in 2015 and scrapped there on 11/12/2015.
This trestle/steel combo bridge over Hallett St while cool was a bit of a challenge to photograph between the tight shooting angles and various lineside clutter.
I broke out the super wide for a shot and while a tiny bit of the pilot is just out of the right border, I like the overall look and feel of this one.
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Fourteen years ago CSX sent a short office car train to Kennesaw, GA to host representatives from the state of Georgia and re-sign the lease for the Western & Atlantic Railroad between Atlanta and Chattanooga. CSX invited the public on board the train while they spent a few days on the house track at Kennesaw before heading back south to Jacksonville. April 14th, 2012.
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