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Faster and Faster...... Yesterday the first Thalys testrun at the High Speed Line South. Yesterday they reached a speed of 200 km/h. For today a recordattempt of 330 km/h was planned, but cancelled due to the bad weather.

Starting this tuesday on the HSL section between Rotterdam and Belgium. Tuesday at speeds up to 160 km/h. Wednesday RECORD RUN up to 330 km/h. Good spoting location is NS station Breda Prinssenbeek.

Do you know? What is this? Its a simple game. I ask some questions containing the railways in Holland, Germany, or any other country in europe. The first person with 10 good answers will receive the NS umbrella ;) And I heared it rains often in the UK, so this is a welcome tool I...

Could anyone please tell me wich TOC was operating on the Waterloo to Windsor & Eton Riverside line during the year 2000? Thanks.

On 3 march I'll come to London again :lol: Reason is the open day at Acton depot on 4 march. But I would like to know if there is anything else special in or around london between march 3 and march 6 like special trains, a Slammer/scrapper perhaps. Anything unusual. Thanks, Maarten Otto

Went to the north of the Netherlands last week for probably the last winter for the DH trains. The 3206 arriving at Nieuweschans The 3222 arriving at Zuidbroek. The Deutsche Bahn regional train from Nieuweschans to Leer... operating every two hours. The Geritage 2275 is the...

The last shots for 2005. A year with Steam, diesel and Electric, Infrastructure, underground, heritage trains, the last slammer. While the High speed line soap in Holland continues, ACTS traction B.V received their third class 58 from EWS, and some more new loco's, and is now the second operator...

In the Railways illustrated (November edition) I have seen a steam tour with the 34067 on the Bermingham - Kensington Olympia - Salisbury and return. Is there a GEN for this tour? Thanks, Maarten Otto (If there is a GEN and if the weather is good, I might come to london) Moved to NR...

London had been warned for 7 July. LONDON the British government had been warned for the attacks of July that the underground railway in London would be a of al-Qaeda. The newspaper The Sunday Times has layed a hand on a document in which that stands of the parliamentary comit t the...

Today I traveled more then 8 hours by train, just for a handfull nice photo's. The SM90 trainsets, wich are 12 years old, are being withdrawn from service, and I still wanted a nice photo of them. Here we see 2 SM90 sets on their way to Zwolle near Dalfsen. *NOTE: Imige resized* And A...

What surprised me just 4 minutes ago was an Email with the message in it that SNCF would like to build a new station direct under the "Place de la Concord" in the heard of Paris. The tunnel underneith the City would be around 1 bilion Euro's. And the station itself 500 milion. this will give...

Please post in this topic your latest update on your Fotopic site. Please no discussions here (other topics can be used for that) so that this topic will stay easy to read. Regards, Maarten...

Via OVL (A Dutch Rail-UK like site) I was told of a incident involving 15 cars.... and a train ofcourse. For more info, and a video: http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_327181544.html 15 cars..... is that a new record for the guinessbook?

Hi everyone, Please post your Class 58 photo's here you like to share with us. and discuss abouththese loco's here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DID YOU...

Article can be found here: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/20/katrina.streetcars.ap/index.html?section=cnn_us

Hi guys, I have been thinking of this recently as I am a member of SWFML and Treinfoto yahoogroups. It are 2 dutch groups where you can post trainphoto's and these are being spread by E-mail to all members. But I have a question, is there such group in the UK aswell, or is it an idea to start...

I think the topic title tells enough.... Pictures here: http://www.v160.de/phorum5/read.php?3,12442,12442#msg-12442 In totall 25 traction vehicles lost. Includien a Br23 steamer (in Holland there is still a broken one) LIST: Stoomlocs (steam) 01 150 23 105 45 010 50 622 86...

Perhaps I did something terably wrong? But I don't believe so. I installed BVE4 in the following dir. C/programfiles/Makoy/BVE4 Then I installed the Bermingham X City South route (BVE4 version). When I start that route I get around 40 error reports. When I press ignore, the...

Hello all. In this topic I will keep you updated about the latest railnews in the Netherlands. And ofcourse I will post pictures aswell. End of the line Yesterday again 2 trainsets Plan U (DMU) were taken to Venlo. From there it is a short trip to the scrap. The completely overhouled...