Recent content by MarcVD

Yes. All more recent stock is air conditioned so fixed windows. Might be a few non air-conditioning ones still on rush hour trains, still running until they are mile-expired. But I doubt it, and if it's still there, it won't last long. As far as I know those included in clockface services, like...

They are mostly used around Antwerp, notably on the S service between Rosendaal and Puurs. And also most of the Turnhout - Brussels - Binche IC workings. That first car is an non air conditioned second class I10. There are 45 of them, along with 15 first class ones. I believe they are now all...

So, owning and operating a smartphone has become a mandatory prerequisite to purchase a train ticket nowadays ? I wonder how long that argument would hold in court...

Well, not really. I still Wonder what exactly I should have done before boarding the train at Orry la ville in order not to break the rules.

So last Sunday I find myself, with wife and another friend in tow, in the lovely little station of Orry la Ville, in the northern outskirts of Paris. The station is outside the limits of the Île de France region, and is served by Paris RER line D - organised by Île de France mobilités - and by...

Then you can also mention the Deseret Power Railroad, which is still operational, uses the same 50 kV electrification scheme, and uses the same GE E60-C electric locomotives. 1785882520 And I think also métro line 5 in Tehran, which uses double deckers and electric locomotives powered by...

Yes. Mostly ASEA Rb and Rc designs.

We also still have an original SNCV PCC tram in operating condition on the ASVI tram museum line in Thuin.

All of that has been filmed in La Louvière. I spent all my childhood there and have ridden all those tracks and trams extensively until their end.

Yes, but those people engaged in steam preservation activities are nowhere near enought to provide a significant part of transportation needs for a country like Russia. And I haven't even touched other topics like maintenance people, supply of spare parts, and even special equipment like...

I doubt that very much. Where would the people capable of running them come from ? Steam traction in Russia is extinct since 1985... and has been used very scarcely during its last ten years. Railwaymen with steam traction experience are for most of them since long retired or already dead.

I took the train to Moscow in 2011 and 2016. There was no special trackwork or precaution taken when arriving in Belaruskaya station. You could indeed notice the loading gauge difference because the restaurant car in the consist is a russian gauge one - it was added to the train at Brest, and...

You mean something like this ? That was Charleroi, a long time ago... pictures found on Internet, none of them belong to me, I was too young to take pictures when this still existed.

As far as I know, the border between Turkey and Armenia is closed. There used to be a railway line between the two countries but it has been lifted. There is a line betweenTurkey and Georgia, sadly only active for freight. But you can take a train to the last served station of the line and a bus...

There are still a handful of 2 sections PCC tramways in service in Brussels but the end can be any day now. The 3 sections ones are still all in service, minus a few already retired for accidents. They are all gone from Ghent. A few of them were transferred to Antwerp to fulfill a temporary...