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The railway was featured last year on the 'What On Earth Is This?' YouTube channel:

Two more Japanese news videos posted today which show damage to railway infrastructure: The first from TBS News shows aerial views of buckled tracks and fallen OLE masts on the north-south JR Kyushu Kagoshima Main Line near Hikawa Town, Kumamoto: Google Translate: The second one from ANN...

Earlier today I was watching YouTube content from Japanese news sources and TBS News posted this video from their rolling coverage - it shows the loco on its side at a place called Yatsushiro: Google translation:

For a short time during the late 80s my daily commute involved the Holborn-Aldwych shuttle and a bell used to ring in the upper lift lobby at Aldwych whenever the shuttle train left Holborn (the lifts there were still manually operated by an attendant).

It was a different one where I found it ;) but yes I see now there's videos right down the bottom of the linked page where the photos are.

Just randomly spotted this 6-year-old video on a Japanese site, it's 20 minutes long and shows a tram front view between Pyongyang Circus Theater and Pyongyang Station with gutter running:

I did it one Saturday 2 years ago with GO Transit from Toronto. The train was very busy and I was worried about everyone crowding onto one bus but WEGO had 5 or 6 vehicles waiting for the arrival. One point of interest on the train journey is where the line crosses the Welland Canal (part of the...

Back in 2022 (in the 507/8 era and using multiple journeys) railway YouTuber Nick Badley tried "to find what the true shortest journey is on the Merseyrail! Is it Wallasey Village to Wallasey Grove Road? Or is it James Street to Moorfields?": The result of his fastest journeys:

Back in 1975 I went on a family holiday to Brussels and we stayed in a hotel on the Place Rogier where there was a tram terminus. I remember spending some time there watching the trams and my Dad took some cine film of them. We both thought that they were part of the city network but it wasn't...

Studying the plans in the 1962 ABC it seems that the 1953 SR boat seconds had identical internal dimensions to the earliest TSOs which had no central doors, the only difference being that the boat seconds had 2+1 seating and the centre doors cut into one bay. The later SOs used for dining would...

There were 15 such coaches built in 1953, S3500-S3514, and I believe they were referred to as Boat Seconds. My copy of ABC British Railway Coaches from 1962 shows them as 48-seat vehicles with the fourth bay from the toilet end having an external door cut into it on each side. It says that the...

The best video on the monorail I can remember seeing was posted on the excellent Tim Traveller channel back in 2019: As well as covering the history of the line the video shows how it was operating the time of filming. I don't know how much (if it all) it's changed since then but hopefully...

I remember that some of the interurban line west of Anderlues had new OLE which wouldn't have looked out of place on an SNCB main line! As I said I made my trip in September 1989 and in La Louvière there was a lot of intact infrastructure still in place from closed routes, at least one of which...

It could still be occasionally but briefly smelt many years later through heavy brake applications and about 10 years ago I was on an HST from Paddington when there was a full emergency brake application at Dolphin Jct resulting in a very strong brake smell reminiscent of the early days. (The...

This video has some 1980s amateur film of SNCV trams in and around La Louvière and in particular the section from 7:14 onwards has footage of the more modern BN-built vehicles doing some very hairy single-track running on the wrong side and in the centre of busy roads: The start of that...

I've just remembered a tram trip I made in 1989 in Belgium from Charleroi to La Louvière on what was probably the last remaining 'real' Vicinal route which closed past Anderlues in 1993. I recall that it had some sections of gutter running especially in Anderlues and Binche, and a small section...

It still exists in a way in Vienna along the main Ringstrasse boulevard with tracks at each side of the road which I'd guess makes it easier for tram stop siting but I've seen mention of it being dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists with some accidents over the years. I'm attaching a photo I...

Some recent media about the retirement of ÖBB's class 4020 EMUs (all in German): Illustrated official tribute including historical photos: https://www.unsereoebb.at/unsereoebb/artikel/2026/4020 Illustrated ÖBB article of the media event for yesterday's final run...

Sometime after the fall of Ceausescu I remember watching a BBC documentary about him in which it was mentioned that in the 1970s he was something of a 'thorn in the side' of the Soviet Union and sought to build trade relations with the West. Indeed in 1975 he signed a joint trade agreement with...

The Austrians their own style too - on the Friday before last I travelled from St. Pölten to Wien Westbahnhof on a coaching set (propelled by a Vectron loco) which had a double decker at either end bookending several single deck vehicles!