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Yearly Archives: 2022
Rigi Bahnen and the weirdest ever turntable
I’ve seen a lot of railway turntables over the years, but this one at Vitznau station in Switzerland is next level – two tracks crossing at right angles, one straight and one curved, both with toothed rack rails, and wired […]
Complicated crossing for train and trolleybus in Zurich
I’ve previously written about how tram and trolleybus wires cross over, and in my home of Melbourne, Australia railway and tram wires cross at multiple locations. But this massive steel bridge above a level crossing takes the cake for mechanical […]
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Tagged electric multiple units, pantographs, railway electrification, railways, Switzerland, trains, trolleybuses, Zurich
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Zigzagging trams for Zürich’s underground tunnel
I’ve been looking at the “left-hand to right-hand running railways” theme for some months now, and I’m still finding more examples – this time it’s the tramway network of Zürich, Switzerland. Photo by Kurt Rasmussen, via Wikimedia Commons The switacharoo […]
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Tagged left hand running, premetro, right hand running, Switzerland, underground trams, Zurich
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Switcharoo on the Stockholm light rail
I’ve looked at many examples around Europe at trams tracks that switch from left-hand to right-hand running, and I’ve found yet another – on the Nockebybanan light rail line in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Photo by kaffeeeinstein from Berlin, […]
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Tagged left hand running, light rail, premetro, right hand running, Stockholm, Sweden, tram stops
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Holmestrand – the station deep beneath a mountain
Underground stations on metro systems are a dime a dozen, but ones located on mainline railways are far less common – with Holmestrand station in Norway being one of them, being located 70 meters beneath a mountain. Photo by Peter […]
Underground archaeology at the metro station
During my visit to Vienna, I found something interesting when passing through the U-Bahn station of Stephansplatz – a window into an underground crypt. The Vergilius Chapel (German: Virgilkapelle) dated back to the early 13th century, with the Magdalene Chapel […]
Modelling the railways of Hungary in N scale
Continuing my theme of modelling the railways of eastern Europe in 1:160 N scale model railways, this time I’m looking at the railways of Hungary and state operator MÁV (Magyar Államvasutak). Ready to run These models are ‘ready to run’ […]
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Tagged hobbies, Hungarian State Railways, Hungary, MÁV, model railways, scale models
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Modelling the railways of Romania in N scale
I’ve written about 1:160 N scale model railways here before, this time I’m going deeper down the rabbit hole of obscure prototypes and looking at the railways of Romania and state operator Căile Ferate Române. Ready to run These models […]
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Tagged Căile Ferate Române, hobbies, model railways, railfans, Romania, scale models
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Slow boat from Germany – delivering Adelaide’s trams
A long time ago I wrote about Adelaide’s Flexity trams and their Germany connection – well this is the story of how they got to Australia. The trams were built at the Bombardier factory in Bautzen, Germany. Government of South […]
Modelling the railways of Russia in N scale
One of my hobbies is model railways, with 1:160 N scale being my chosen scale. Unfortunately the number of people who model the railways of Russia is difficult, let alone any N scale model of Russian trains, but there are […]
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Tagged hobbies, model railways, railfans, Russia, Russian Railways, scale models
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