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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

Never been to Holland. But two email correspondents, Gerard Mulder and Charles van Langeveld, have sent me these photos. Thanks, guys!

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.

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.

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 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 Description : Two AVE trains at Seville, Spain. These are the Spanish equivalents of the French TGVs

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