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Dachnoye station on the Saint Petersburg Metro
I’ve written about above ground Metro lines and stations of the Moscow Metro, but Saint Petersburg also had one – Dachnoye station. Postcard from 1968 The station opened on June 1, 1966 to serve the growing neighbourhoods beyond the existing […]
Crazy tram junctions of Innsbruck
Innsbruck is one of many Austrian cities with tramways, but the network has one interesting feature – exceedingly complicated junctions. Photo by trams aux fils., via Wikimedia Commons Peerhofsiedlung terminus has a interleaved scissors crossover on a curve. Google Street […]
Zürich Selnau railway station under the River Sihl
I’ve written about a few different railway stations located under mountains, but this is something new – one located under a river! Photo by Allie_Caulfield, via Wikimedia Commons The station is Zürich Selnau on the Zürich S-Bahn system in Switzerland, […]
Posted in Trains
Tagged metros, railway stations, S-Bahn, Switzerland, U-Bahn, underground, underwater, Zurich
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Underground trams in Vienna
Like many cities the Austrian capital of Vienna has both a Straßenbahn (tram) system alongside their underground U-Bahn rail system, but it also has something in between – the untergrundstrassenbahn or “underground tramways”. Under the beltway The first section of […]
Posted in Trams
Tagged Austria, premetro, tram stops, underground, underground trams, Vienna
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Car vs steam train on the streets of Germany
The other day on Twitter I found a video of an odd scene – a steam train driving along a narrow street, then crashing into a Mercedes Benz after the driver decided to pull out from the curb. pic.twitter.com/RU4qQUxvqV — […]
Posted in Trains
Tagged accidents, Germany, heritage railways, motoring, steam trains
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ÖBB switching from left to right hand running across Austria
Trains switching between left and right hand running has been a theme on this blog for some time, and here is one example I’d missed – Austria. When I visited Austria I only found trains running on the right hand […]
Posted in Trains
Tagged Austria, left hand running, ÖBB, rail operations, right hand running, Vienna
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Caissons and underground vestibules on the Kyiv Metro
I’ve written about Arsenalna (Ukrainian: Арсенальна) station on the Kyiv Metro in Ukraine before – at 105.5 metres below ground, it takes two flights of escalators to reach the surface, passing through an underground vestibule at the halfway point. But […]
Turning trains on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn
The Wuppertaler Schwebebahn is a suspension railway in the German city of Wuppertal, where trains hang from a single rail built underneath a supporting steel frame. But how do the trains turn around at the end of the line? Photo […] Continue reading
Posted in Housekeeping
Tagged Germany, rail operations, railways, reversing loops, Schwebebahn, turntables, Wuppertal
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Chapels on the tracks of Russia
Russia is a massive country, which combined with a religious population has resulted in an odd sight – Вагон-храм – railway carriages converted into mobile chapels. Photo via Журнал «Всемирная иллюстрация» Chapel of St. Olga (1896) Construction of the first […] Continue reading
Vladimir Putin’s private railway stations
For heads of state around the world private aircraft are a common model transport. But for Russian president Vladimir Putin, he also has a private armoured train, and a network of private railway stations. Photo by Mikhail Korotkov The train […]
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Tagged mystery, Novo Ogaryovo, Russia, Russian Railways, Sochi, Valdai, Vladimir Putin
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