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  1. Siggi155

    Where do you spend your holidays?

    Hi, today I've got a little query. Where do you go on holidays or where have you been on holidays. And maybe which was the best or most funniest? Well, I've been spending my own holidays at the following places: Lake Balaton (Hungary, 2 times, each a 22 hours trip by train), Baltic sea and...
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    EMU hauled by diesel locomotive

    Hello there. By rummaging youtube I found this video filmed in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Yes, I don't wrote the name myself, I just copied it and I hope it's not wrongly spelled). It show a diesel loco towing a Pendolino electric unit...
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    Austrain Railjet

    Europe has a new Highspeed train. The Austian railways ÖBB are about to intend a new train category called Railjet. These trains will be used on the austrain east-west-mainlines including the new high speed line between Vienna (Wien) and Linz and further to Salzburg and Innsbruck. But it is not...
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    Wagon type Sefoors / Sefoorss

    Hi everybody, Last week I had to drive a freight train from Hannover to Leipzig. When I saw the train I was wondering about the type of wagons it consisted of, never had seen anything comparable before in Germany. They had 5 sections bound together and put on 6 bogies (4 jacobs bogies). It was...
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    How fast are freight trains in the UK ?

    Hello out there I wonder just how fast freight trains can drive in Britain? In the wikipedia I've read that classes 90 and 92 are limited to a top speed of 75 mph (120 kph). Is that the allowable maximum speed freight trains can operate? What about the channel tunnel and its affiliated lines...

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