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European Railways

I haven't done much serious rail travel in europe, so this section is a little sketchy.

Belgium Railways

Never been to Belgium. But an email colleague, Francois de Boer, lives there, and sent me these photos. Thanks, Francois!

Dutch Railways

I had not travelled to Holland until recently. In the meantime, two email correspondents, Gerard Mulder and Charles van Langeveld, sent me a few photos, included here. Thanks, guys!

A recent trip by cruise ship (coincidentally, the MS Rotterdam!) took us to Rotterdam, where I caught up a little on this omission by getting a few tramway shots.

French Railways

There is a romance about French railways, je ne sais quois. Whether it is the romance of the country, the people, the language ... Chemin de Fer and Society Nationale de Chemin de Fer have a Gallic ethos to them that reeks just as much of Les Gaulois as the Marseilles docklands.

I think part of that atmosphere was expressed to me by a friend who had studied, photographed and taped french railways for years, when he pointed out that the French never went for the General Motors diesel propoganda line, prefering to stay steam for many years until they had extensively electrified, in their own inimitiable style, and then, la piece de resistance , the TGV.

Never ones to follow fashion, but always leading it, the French have, in my view at least, set the engineering standards, firstly with the Chapelon revolutions in steam, then with the Alstom high speed trains, and more recently with the latest in software technology, automatically verified signalling software.

German Railways

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 73895 bytes, pixels Date : 28 Jun 1980 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 9504 Description : DB pacific 01.1104 at Steamtown, Carnforth, in Great Britain.

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 58901 bytes, pixels Date : 28 Jun 1980 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 9505 Description : The smokebox door of DB pacific 01.1104 at Steamtown, Carnforth, in Great Britain.

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 100658 bytes, pixels Date : 28 Jun 1980 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 9508 Description : A very German-looking Deutsche Reichsbahn 0-6-0 tank loco at Carnforth.

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 363774 bytes, 800x533 pixels Date : 22 Apr 2019, catalogued 29 Aug 2021 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon EOS600D), image location 20190422-174555 Description : Tirano: rusty tank loco

Greece

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 323713 bytes, 800x533 pixels Date : 28 Oct 2017, catalogued 26 Aug 2021 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Canon EOS 600D, image location 20171028-144414 Description : A-13 tank loco preserved in the station at Nafplion, Greece.

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 249009 bytes, 800x533 pixels Date : 28 Oct 2017, catalogued 27 Aug 2021 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon EOS600D), image location 20171028-144425 Description : Nafplion: the railway station: old preserved (?) tank loco

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 321763 bytes, 800x533 pixels Date : 28 Oct 2017, catalogued 27 Aug 2021 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon EOS600D), image location 20171028-144458 Description : Nafplion: the railway station: old preserved (?) tank loco: valve gear

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 270614 bytes, 800x533 pixels Date : 28 Oct 2017, catalogued 27 Aug 2021 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon EOS600D), image location 20171028-144512 Description : Nafplion: the railway station: old preserved (?) tank loco

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 253314 bytes, 800x533 pixels Date : 28 Oct 2017, catalogued 27 Aug 2021 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon EOS600D), image location 20171028-144546 Description : Nafplion: the railway station: old preserved (?) tank loco

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 260025 bytes, 800x533 pixels Date : 28 Oct 2017, catalogued 27 Aug 2021 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon EOS600D), image location 20171028-144605 Description : Nafplion: the railway station: old preserved (?) tank loco

Irish Railways

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 33999 bytes, pixels Date : Sep 1986 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 15619 Description : This little loco is preserved at the Guinness brewery in Dublin. It was used in the brewery, but I don't know much else about the loco.

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 32087 bytes, pixels Date : Sep 1986 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 15620 Description : The author enjoying a Guinness at the Guinness brewery, next to the Geoghegan loco.

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 62469 bytes, pixels Date : Sep 1986 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 15622 Description : Some disused tram trackwork outside the Guiness brewery in Dublin. This track was used by the Geoghegan loco above, in shunting trucks of barley for the brewery.

Italian Railways

Norwegian Railways

Polish Railways

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 81708 bytes, 600x800 pixels Date : 2003, catalogued 23 Apr 2004 Photographer : Stewart Hughes Medium : email digital image, image location 103-0369Nene Pole Description : Stewart writes: This is the truly massive Polish loco they have - according to the website it's an ex PKP 2-10-0 class 52 Krieg. The excellent Heritage Railways website tells you a little more .

Russian Railways

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 302412 bytes, 592x875 pixels Date : 1988, catalogued 24 Sep 2000 Photographer : Stewart Hughes Medium : digital image, image location HKtoLondon-2 Description : The Russian loco that pulled us from Irkutsk to Moscow on the Trans Siberian railway.

Spanish Railways

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 86309 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : unknown, catalogued 04 Oct 2003 Photographer : Stewart Hughes Medium : email digital image, image location 0560 Seville AVE Description : Two AVE trains at Seville, Spain. These are the Spanish equivalents of the French TGVs

Image : dir=europe/ page=index 133098 bytes, 800x589 pixels Date : Jan 2009, catalogued 09 Sep 2009 Photographer : Bridget Allison Medium : email digital image, image location IMG_1828 Description : This shot is FC San Feliu-Gerona no 1 (Krauss 2355) which is plinthed in San Feliu Spain. (Thanks to Kevin Prince for this information.)

Swiss Railways

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