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Category Archives: Trains
Using a railway carriage as a bridge
I stumbled across this interesting scene via Facebook recently – what looks like a retired railway carriage being used as a bridge. So what is the story behind it? ‘Squatting Slavs In Tracksuits‘ on Facebook Thankfully the person who shared […]
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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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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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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Technical platform «Troitse-Lykovo» and tunnel station «Д»
The Moscow Metro has 250 stations across the network, as well two bizarre ones not included in that total – technical platform «Troitse-Lykovo» and tunnel station «Д». Just a carriage long and with bare concrete walls, they are a strange […]
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Tagged abandoned, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, Russia, underground, urban exploration, urbex
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Enlarging the tunnels of the City and South London Railway
The narrow ‘tube’ tunnels of the London Underground are known for being claustrophobic, but there was one part of the network was being even more constrained – the City and South London Railway. This is the story of how the […]
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Tagged construction, London, London Underground, metros, railway stations, tunnels, underground, United Kingdom
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