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Snälltåget 193 255 passerar Lekaryd på väg mot Alvesta med tåg 307 från Stockholm C till Malmö C.
Inställt från Malmö C till Köpenhamn C.
11/06/26
The Kenai Mountains linger overhead as the Coastal Classic crosses a causeway just north of Portage. To our advantage, the evening sun came out a few times during this chase.
2A30 Lincoln Central to Matlock. Class 158 Express in De-branded Stagecoach livery with EMR Regional branding seen here arriving into Derby station.
Выезд с парка отстоя и следование тепловоза в составе пассажирского поезда Могилёв-Гомель.
Shunting (27.07.2025, Iași)
This shot captures two young foreign tourists, one German and one American, sitting aboard an Italian regional train. The image serves as a visual critique of the anthropological shift in contemporary mass tourism. Once, foreign travel in Italy was synonymous with both cultural and economic enrichment for the host territories; today, the months-long rampage of these newer generations across the country has turned that reality upside down. Traveling on low-cost budgets and consuming destinations superficially, this volatile youth brings no real wealth, resulting instead in degradation, disorder, and litter across public transit and historic cities. With their eyes permanently glued to their phone screens and food packaging scattered on the seats, these figures embody a predatory form of tourism that treats Italy's heritage as nothing more than a disposable, chaotic backdrop.
Class50 50032 Courageous at Whitnash near Leamington circa February 1983 and heading southbound.
Don't recall what I was up to on the wrong side for the sun but I think this works quite well.
I will see if I can come up with a more accurate date.
Ref: img394 WR
An outbound Metra Rock Island train pass through 16th Street Tower as the sun goes down and the day ends. The 16th Street Tower was supposedly be taken down any days after it shutdown last year in middle of April and to this day, it is still standing.
Metro-Cammell/Cummins Super Sprinter Class 156 diesel multiple unit is seen at Nethertown on the Cumbrian coast railway line working Northern's 2T42 the 08:39 Corkickle to Lancaster passenger service.
BR Peak Class 45 No 45128 awaits departure beside St Pancras Station Signal Box (BR LMR 1957) with a Derby service on 30th December 1981
Copyright Photograph Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
This shot focuses on a woman looking up to check the train schedule monitors inside the main hall of the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station. In the background, the original 1935 Rationalist architecture is visible, with the iconic marble walls and the classic bronze lettering of the station's ticket office ("Biglietteria"). The image frames a real, candid moment of a traveler navigating her journey amidst the passenger hub
Nez Cassé 22252 sits in warm store in the Sotteville Graveyard with about 45 of its classmates.
Other than withdrawals due to accidents, none of the class were officially withdrawn until 12/01/2012.
About half of these stored locos survived and were cascaded to new roles.
The withdrawn classmates probably supplied spare parts at Rouen's Quatre-Mares (QM) Works next door.
22252 was one of the lucky ones.
The Nez cassé Série BB22200s were a class of 205 dual voltage Bo-Bo's built for high speed running on passenger services.
Prototype 22201 was delivered by Alsthom (now Alstom), in December 1976.
They rest were built in batches from May 1977 to 1980 and 1983 to July 1986.
They have a top speed of 200 km/h and a power rating of 5,600 kW (7,500 hp).
While built for French operations, a batch of 9 of them were used in 1994/1995 on Chunnel freights before the UK Class 92s were ready to take over.
Being one of the last built classes of Nez Cassé ("broken nose"), many are still working.
They are found on ICs, some TERs, at SNCF Infra and even a few still allocated to Fret.
History on 22252:
Big thanks as usual to Christophe Hespel for his trainsso.fr database 🙏
22252 was delivered to SNCF on 23/01/1978.
It was first logged in the Graveyard on 29/08/2010 and last logged there in August 2011.
Unfortunately, the arrival or departure dates are unknown.
Soon after August 2011, 22252 went into Quatre-Mares Works for a repaint and preparation for TER passenger services.
As at July 2026, it is active in the blue “PACA” livery working for SNCF working on TER services for STF “Hauts-de-France”.
SNCF's 63737 awaiting its fate in Road 1 of the Sotteville Graveyard with 35 other BB63400’s and BB63500’s.
63737’s History:
Big thanks as usual to Christophe Hespel for his trainsso.fr database information🙏
63737 was built by Brissonneau & Lotz and delivered into service with SNCF on 22/04/1960.
It was first logged in the Graveyard from the local Sotteville Depot on 29/08/2010.
The 580 strong BB63500s were built for over 15 years between 1956 and 1971.
Most of the class are withdrawn, though a few were rebuilt in the early 2010s as BB64600s and are still active in 2026.
Quite a few in this Road 1 line were included in these lucky ones. But not 63737.
It was officially withdrawn from Bordeaux Saint-Jean depot on 25/06/2011, (10 months after its arrival).
It was last sighted at the Graveyard in August 2011.
Unfortunately, many scrapyard convoys were not seen by French railway enthusiasts, or they were not able to get the loco consist numbers.
So, I am uncertain which scrapyard 63737 went to but probably scrapped in 2011.
NB: The 3 approved asbestos removal scrapyards at the time are in the album info section.
Any confirmation, of extra details for my database, is gratefully received 🙏 🙏
LNER 6MT 2-6-2 V2 Class No 60800 'Green Arrow' storms across Selby Swing Bridge and enters Selby Station with the Past Time Rail 'Scarborough Flyer' railtour on 12th September 1999.
The tour commenced at Doncaster (1128) and went via Hull, Selby, York and on to Scarborough.
Copyright Photograph Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
A Re-edited Post
Union Pacific's 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" #4014 leads passenger special NS 061 westbound along the Pittsburgh Line at Milepost 333 near Ardara, PA.
After making the trek down to Grandview, the Glacier Discovery Train heads back north, crossing Portage Creek before its reverse run to Whittier.
Cette photo prise lors d'une soirée dans la belle campagne roumaine du județ de Harghita montre l'IR 1645 des chemins de fer roumains CFR. La rame, composée de quatre voitures, relie București Nord à Târgu Mureș. Le convoi vient tout juste de passer la halte de Sândominic, dont on voit le village à gauche de l'image.
© Alexandre Zanello
