A video of this train station: https://youtu.be/3Niib5R7umM

Abandoned station (Montzen Gare) Belgium Sep 2022

Trains & Cable Cars

There's a lovely place to watch the cable cars travel over Docklands Light Railway trains near the exit gates at the IFS Cloud Royal Docks Cable Car stop.

A year ago, it was a gloriously steamy day in the otherwise very dry high desert of Ely, Nevada. A good rain storm really makes a difference!

Nevada Northern Railway, Ely, Nevada (4/26/2025). These old engines were used to haul copper ore from the Ruth Mine on the west side of Ely to smelters in McGill, northeast of Ely. The trains, railway, & machine shop are fully operational & appear to the visitor as frozen in time from the early 20th century. I stop there every time I pass through town. Visitors can ride trains & be the engineer, but I prefer to roam around the yard & machine shop.

The re-nationalisation of British passenger rail is starting off with the most important stuff: the revival of the British Rail ‘hot dog’ symbol from the 50s.

There seems to be an #interrail sale on at most of the usual sites.

And here's my regular reminder that if you are in the UK and have a Disabled Person's Railcard then you can get an equivalent Interrail pass for your companion for free from the official UK seller. myinterrail.co.uk
Buy your own pass, then contact them by email for instructions. They are very helpful.

Travelling the lost railway lines of northwestern Ontario
Thunder Bay, Ont., history teacher Dave Battistel is documenting the lost railway lines of northwestern Ontario, with the goal of preserving their stories for future generations.
#travel #history #railway #northwesternOntario #ThunderBay
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6676162?cmp=rss

A Slither Of Light - Bayswater

Photography of a departing train in the small open space between the dark tunnels at Bayswater tube station. It took a few attempts, but it looks fully illuminated when timed perfectly.

Note: Taken safely behind the yellow line with a zoom lens.

Taken this day, 2012, photographers on a platform, as the huge Britannia locomotive gets up steam https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamloo_gazette/6982812283/

When I was a kid, I had a Britannia in my model rail set - dad and I used to set it up and run it together, so it was even more special to see the real thing in action, with my dad that day.

A video of this railway bridge: https://youtu.be/HSzNgjrpqpg

Abandoned railway bridge (Spoorbrug line 20) Belgium Sep 2022

FAVOURITE STATIONS: FARRINGDON

I met up with train enthusiasts Emmaunuel Charway, aka The Black Train Boy to talk about his favourite London Underground station... Farringdon. What is so special about Farringdon station?

A video of this railway track: https://youtu.be/vTbwfiO6a3o

Abandoned railway (Spoorlijn 21B) Belgium Sep 2022

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gsyvQJQY9d0&si=O1giDXDKDOPe_k15

New video on my YouTube channel

TIL that part of the historical Track 61 running along the South Boston Bypass is used as a test track by the #MBTA.

Never seen a train parked there before (not that I walk past it often), but tonight I got a peek at some of the new rolling stock presumably going through acceptance testing.

Boats & Trains

This is the view looking at Royal Victoria Dock from the Greenwich Peninsula next to the IFS Cable Cars. It's lovely place to watch the Docklands Light Railway trains on their journeys.

Today's historic photo of the day: The cars for train S38 the Canberra Monaro Express at left, and at right 4439 on the Up Southern Highlands Express at Canberra #railway station, Kingston, ACT, December 8 1985

The Southern Highlands Express departed Canberra Sunday evenings just half an hour after the Canberra Monaro Express. The locomotive and non-aircon carriage set had run down on Saturday evenings as an extension of the train that on every other day of the week ran only as far as Goulburn.

A video of this railway track: https://youtu.be/VkV3tzbHCHo

Abandoned train track (Old railroad bridge and traintrack) Germany May 2022

Where are the world’s most beautiful railway bridges? Engineering marvels become big tourist hits.

These amazing feats of engineering allow trains to navigate the steepest valleys and cross the deepest rivers.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250304-where-are-the-worlds-most-beautiful-railway-bridges-engineering-marvels-become-big-tourist-hits?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward