Recent content by Fenway

An interesting article by Shaun Wallace on the current railway operations and ongoing process of modernisation in Morocco can be found under the following link, together with lots of pictures from August 2013, including images of the new Alstom Prima 2 electric locomotives delivered to ONCF...

A handy news site for coverage of UK trains (both modern and preserved) as well as international railways and trams is the new railway report. It's a free online magazine with lots of pictures from various photographers. Usually about 4-6 new articles/features are published a month. Sometimes...

Here are a few more nocturnal photos of the Sky trainset at Kings Cross. http://www.newrailwayreport.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/blue-sky-over-east-coast.html

The commemorative Winton Train has left Prague on Tuesday morning Sept. 1st and is presently steaming through Germany towards England, where it will arrive on Friday and where A1 Tornado will cap this remarkable train journey, to remember the evacuation of jewish refugee kids from Nazi occupied...

Some current and new pictures of A1 Tornado pulling the Torbay Express in the South. ->>> http://www.eurosteam.blogspot.com/

Each summer there are lots of noteworthy steam events going on in the Czech Republic, this summer has been entirely themed around the massive and rugged 4-8-4 tank engines, some like the 477 class even highly modern with Stoker firing, roller bearings, welded boiled and Kylchap exhaust. A whole...

Also related to heritage and nostalgia, but just in this case of the water-bourne variety, here some information of sorts and of noteworthyness to all fans of paddle steamers, especially also in regard to the massive fleet of 9 steamers in Dresden, Germany. The shipping company there will...

The former SNCF locomotive 141 R 568 (a 1945 Baldwin built 2-8-2 for the reconstruction of France, after WWII) was steamed successfully in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in mid March and also completed a successfully a program of various trial runs about 10 days ago. The 568 is of course noteworthy...