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Tag Archives: heritage railways
Turning a locomotive on a reversing star
There are many ways for a locomotive to be turned – reversing loops, turntables, and triangular junctions. But there is one bizarre track configuration that can also do the same job – a reversing star. Google Maps How they work […]
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Tagged heritage railways, Italy, rail operations, railfan guides, railways, steam trains
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Delivering a crane by train
I’ve seen many interesting pieces of Russian heavy machinery, but this is a new one – a crawler crane that can be moved by rail. The crane arrives at the Tyosovo Railway Museum in Novgorod Oblast on the back of […]
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Tagged cranes, heritage railways, narrow gauge, Russia, Russian Railways, winter
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Why did the train stop to close the bridge?
On Facebook I recently came across a video of a train coming to a halt, so that a man could swing a piece of track into place before it could then proceed. So what is the story behind it? The […]
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Tagged heritage railways, museum, mystery, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Netherlands, railfans, railways, viral photos
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A whistle stop tour of Sinaia railway station, Romania
As I travelled across Romania by train, the railway station at the mountain resort of Sinaia in Prahova County caught my eye. Photo by Andrei Stroe, via Wikimedia Commons Căile Ferate Române 4-6-0 steam locomotive 230-039 was plinthed outside the […]
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Tagged Căile Ferate Române, heritage railways, Romania, steam trains
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Riding the Kiev Funicular
Funicular railways seem to be quite common in European cities, and the Ukranian capital is no different. The Kiev Funicular is a 238 meter long railway opened in 1905 that links the top and bottom of a hill. Here is […]
Posted in Tourism, Trains
Tagged funicular, heritage railways, Kiev, railways, Ukraine
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Ретропоезд – the heritage trains of Russia
In Russian there is a word for old time trains such as steam engines – «Ретропоезд». It roughly translates to “retro train”, and on my visit to Russia, I saw quite a few of them.
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Tagged heritage railways, Moscow, Moscow Metro, railways, Russia, Saint Petersburg, steam trains
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Named trains of the Moscow Metro
I only spent a few days in Moscow, but in that time I still managed to find a number of Moscow Metro trains wearing commemorative liveries.
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Tagged heritage railways, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, Russia, Ретропоезд
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Stumbling upon a heritage train in Hungary
I spent a couple of days in Budapest on my trip across Europe, and on one of them I was lucky to stumble upon a heritage train parked at Budapest Keleti railway station.
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Tagged Budapest, heritage railways, Hungary, MÁV, railfans, railways
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