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The tram of Sofia was originally built in meter gauge and changed over to 1009mm gauge in the late 1920s as it was cheaper just to regauge the trams than fix the badly worn out track.

Neither. The accelerator will notch up until it has reached full power when the pedal is pressed long enough. Pressing the pedal only halfway will let it notch up (i.e. accelerate slower) but it will still notch up until full power. Completely releasing the pedal will only change the position...

I don't know about the particularities of the VAMBAC equipment so I'm going from the assumption that it's just the british version of the accelerator used in the PCC cars. The very basic idea is that the driver selects how fast he wants to accelerate or brake and the system does the rest...

Germany was a quite early adopter of diesel traction on the railways and produced both impressive high-speed railcars and practical shunting locos (some locos built in the 1930s even lasted into the 1990s) before the second world war but high-powerd mainline locomotives were still very much in...

Visiting the West Lancashire Light Railway back in 2009. Ended up having a brilliant afternoon with footplate rides on Stanhope (loco in service that day) and Utrillas (was in steam for testing something) and a great guided tour through the sheds and leaving more than the fare paid in the...

The Reichsbahn (the first one) was quite quick on deciding on standardised equipment with the type "Einheit" (Unity or Standard) double wire system and the Siemens & Halske type 1912 (which later saw some further developments right until colour light signals and three-phase point machines) power...

Coaches 3-5 on the DB Metropolitan sets should be the most comfortable second class in Europe with the generous 2+1 seating.

The german Chiemseebahn still serves the purpose it was built in 1887 (transporting tourists between Prien station and Prien harbour) using the original coaching stock built in 1887/1888 with either the original steam locomotive (built in 1887 and their sole locomotive until 1982) or a "modern"...

Iceland is certainly not a country you'd associate with railways (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Iceland) but it is presumably the only country where all steam locomotives have been preserved as the other locomotive of the Reykjavík Harbour Railway is preserved at the Icelandic...

There is quite a similar attitude towards the Bundesbahn/Reichsbahn (former western german and eastern german state railways which were reformed into the DB AG in 1994) amongst many railwaypeople in Germany with the main argument being that it was one railway with a common goal (safe, punctual...

Of the 19 class V250 (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/V250) EMUs built, only nine of the 16 units ordered by the NS (dutch railways) had been delivered before the whole class was withdrawn from service due to various issues. The NMBS/SNCB/NGBE (belgian railways) even cancelled the order for their...

Have the "safety over punctuality over economy" mentality show it your potential employer as clear as possible. If you don't mind working abroad, I suggest learning decent german (at least CEFR level B2) and make use of the serve staff shortage we have.

The Hotel Altora (https://www.hotel-wernigerode-altora.de/) in the german town of Wernigerode is across the street from the main locomotive shed of the Harzer Schmalspurbahn goes as far as branding itself as a railway theme hotel with appropriate art in the rooms, a restaurant named "1835" and...

Iceland never had any public railways. Yet they do have preserved all (both) of their steam locomotives being the sole european country to have done so.

The DB has its own signal for shunting locos (signal Fz 1 in Ril. 301.1201) which is one white light (usually at buffer height) at each end of the locomotive but allows using signal Zg 1a (three white lights in "A"-shape) instead which must be used when going over level crossings without...

The official rules for hobby photography of the DB (https://www.deutschebahn.com/resource/blob/1304188/55be4366e9cc7ffdb3df2b511fd18605/Informationen-fuer-Hobbyfotografen-und-filmer-data.pdf) allow non-commercial photography on DB property legally accessible to the public without the need to ask...

If we include direct Eurostar services, it should be Amsterdam. The distance between Amsterdam Centraal and St Pancras is about 222 miles as the crow flies with the actual distance travelled (via Rotterdam, Antwerpen, Brussles, Eurotunnel) working out to 361 miles (according to...

That was pretty much the reason. When the german railways made the decision on a standard electrification system in 1912, they already saw the advantages of single-phase AC electrification but had to go for a lower frequency to manage arcing on the commutator of the universal motors (pretty much...

According to the ERA (https://www.era.europa.eu/registers_en#vkm), the official Vehicle Keeper Marking of the NMBS/SNCB/NGBE (nationalr railway company of belgium) is just the letter "B". The NMBS/SNCB/NGBE (National Railway Company of Belgium) just happens to use a font that makes the letter...

The 5xx series (Oostende-Eupen) trains are mostly formed of I11 coaches (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/I11_(spoorwegrijtuig)), frequently alongside with single I10 (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/I10_(spoorwegrijtuig)) and rarely with a single I6...