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Since I'm on holidays, may as well stretch my legs and get more familiar with my already 1 year old gear. The shots were taken between 6PM to 10PM, on the more metropolitan part of the Douro Line, in Portugal. Tell me which shots were the ones you preferred the most. Personally I like the...

After 20 years of straight cuts and noninvestment of the Portuguese national railways by the public government, the services started to colapse completely this year, with days where service was impossible in certain lines, and rolling stock keeps pilling up at the workshops without enough...

Good Afternoon everyone! I'm planning a visit to Germany in September, in order to attend the 2018 edition of Innotrans, and I'm pondering also extending the visit for the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (Frankfurt Auto Show, but since it is 2018, commercial vehicles will be displayed in...

As some may know, starting next year, 2019, the European market for passenger railway services will be liberalized for state owned companies, meaning that any European railway company will be free to operate services in any other EU country, as long as they meet local requirements for...

Hello everyone! Following my graduation in Design, I'm starting a plan of reinvestment on old hardware that I have. Already upgraded my PC to 85% of its potential. Currently I'm investing in a new DSLR, having recently sold my Nikon D5000. I'm between the Nikon D5600 and the Nikon D7500. Both...

The unit 4009 Alfa Pendular has undergone mid-life refurbishment and has now been present to the Public as the first unit of the "New" Alfa Pendular service, flagship of the Portuguese Railways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWHeMJVHOkc Presented in Santa Apolónia last Friday, the train...

Good Morning Everyone! I'm now reporting from the Airport at Oporto, Portugal, on my way to London. I'll be staying from this Saturday up until Sunday of next week. Plans for visit at the moment include several journeys on the TfL Network and a journey for the NRM in York. From Friday to...

Good afternoon everyone. I'll be travelling to London in late October to attend this year's MCM London Comic Con, and decided to stick around a full week before the event. I already sorted out the railway connection between Stanford Airport and London Liverpool Street. I just want to...

I could have had added this as a reply to the Most and Leasy favourite foreign liveries, but since this is more an opinion chase rather than a self statement of opinion, I think it fits better to have this thread in it's own. Mods, feel free to fuse the threads if you think it's better...

Today I came to myself realizing, after watching the list of Japanese Railway Companies, that there's something strange that I can't find myself an answer to. Imagine a setting were Portugal decides to Privatize it's Railway Company, CP - Comboios de Portugal EPE (something closer to being...

Good evening everyone! What are your thought's about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a trade agreement that is supposed to make it easier for EU and the US to trade and invest in each other. This agreement has been in the works since 2013 under closed doors and without...

Good evening everyone! I want to understand a little bit more about the Yellow Warning Panel, namely, how much is "too much" and "too small" and what can be placed on it, and what can't. Renfe and CP (suposedly) entered the tender for the Greater Anglia franchise and I'm trying to imagine...

The Tube Map is, for sure, one of the most iconic art pieces of London. It's one of the first things visitors get in their hands to travel around and its style shaped the Underground's corporate image. But the schematic style of Harry Beck's map, centred on the Central Line, is starting to...

People, I'm going to leave a rant here, which may be somewhat inappropriate to the theme, but it's something very particular that I hate about trains. You know when you're on the platform waiting for the train, minding your own business, when a girl shows up and chooses to wait for the train...

This week I decided to watch the documentary "No Sex Please, We Are Japanese" and "Overpopulated" from the BBC and I got to know better specially the consequences that the loss of population can have on a country's image and economy. I was even more surprised that Japan has the biggest...

Good Evening everyone. I decided to do this thread to know what the forum folks think about immigration in a different way. Let's start. Immigration normally has a negative connotation to it. Normally people think of immigration as a bunch of people coming from other places just to fill...

Good Evening everyone! I'm going through a bit of a frightening situation right now here in Portugal. The Portuguese Military and Police forces have gathered in great number at the capital in protest against next year's government plan and things are looking really tense right now. In the...

Good Morning everyone! I applied to the London Underground Engineering Apprenticeship back in March this year and since then I've been waiting to know if I've been accepted or not into the scheme. Since the scheme was due to start in September as far as I know and the enrolment for the next...

I was checking the Bombardier Transportation website to see the solutions they've done recently in commuter services when I bumped into this: http://www.bombardier.com/en/transportation/projects/project/project-lightbox.emu-perth-australia.html Does anyone know what is the actual EMU the...

Good evening everyone! I'm thinking about setting up an Internet and Telephone service if I ever get to move to London and I'd like to have opinions from people who have experience with this in the UK. The parameters I'm looking for are these: Required - Only Internet and Phone packs...