A pair of Italian FS Ale663 Fiat railcars, ready to depart from #Nice Ville station 🇫🇷 to #Torino 🇮🇹 across the Alps via the #Tenda line.
July 1985. #PastTrainTrips
July 1985. #PastTrainTrips
May 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A pair of Italian FS Ale663 Fiat railcars, ready to depart from #Nice Ville station 🇫🇷 to #Torino 🇮🇹 across the Alps via the #Tenda line.
July 1985. #PastTrainTrips
July 1985. #PastTrainTrips
Frutigen🇨🇭on the #Lötschberg line. Northbound #Eurocity #Vauban, mainly composed of #SNCB #NMBS carriages and bound for Brussels 🇧🇪 via #Strasbourg 🇫🇷 and #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 is ready to depart.
Picture taken in the early 2000s.
#PastTrainTrips
Picture taken in the early 2000s.
#PastTrainTrips
April 7, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Frutigen🇨🇭on the #Lötschberg line. Northbound #Eurocity #Vauban, mainly composed of #SNCB #NMBS carriages and bound for Brussels 🇧🇪 via #Strasbourg 🇫🇷 and #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 is ready to depart.
Picture taken in the early 2000s.
#PastTrainTrips
Picture taken in the early 2000s.
#PastTrainTrips
November 11, 2024 at 5:02 PM
A #DB 🇩🇪 #E10 class 113 #Bügelfalte with a seasonal train from northern Germany to #Austria|n 🇦🇹 ski resorts. Picture taken in February 2002 at #Salzburg - before the station’s refurbishment. The loco (and the first carriage) still display the “orient red” livery.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
February 6, 2026 at 5:27 PM
A #DB 🇩🇪 #E10 class 113 #Bügelfalte with a seasonal train from northern Germany to #Austria|n 🇦🇹 ski resorts. Picture taken in February 2002 at #Salzburg - before the station’s refurbishment. The loco (and the first carriage) still display the “orient red” livery.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
The #Venice 🇮🇹 to #Vienna 🇦🇹 daytime Express #Gondoliere is seen here approaching #Villach in 1989. The colourful consist includes Italian and Austrian carriages - among them, on the day I’ve taken the picture, an #ÖBB couchette car (partly visible on the photo).
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
March 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM
The #Venice 🇮🇹 to #Vienna 🇦🇹 daytime Express #Gondoliere is seen here approaching #Villach in 1989. The colourful consist includes Italian and Austrian carriages - among them, on the day I’ve taken the picture, an #ÖBB couchette car (partly visible on the photo).
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
Bordeaux 🇫🇷 station in October 2005: an #SNCF #X2800 railcar with two trailers is seen here just before leaving for an evening run on a #TER regional service.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
January 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Bordeaux 🇫🇷 station in October 2005: an #SNCF #X2800 railcar with two trailers is seen here just before leaving for an evening run on a #TER regional service.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
A railfan event from the early 2000s: #SNCB #NMBS 🇧🇪 multi-current electric loco 1501 passes #Maastricht 🇳🇱 signal box with a charter train, composed i.a. of Dutch and Belgian Dining Cars @diningcar.at and couchettes.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
March 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A railfan event from the early 2000s: #SNCB #NMBS 🇧🇪 multi-current electric loco 1501 passes #Maastricht 🇳🇱 signal box with a charter train, composed i.a. of Dutch and Belgian Dining Cars @diningcar.at and couchettes.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
A photo taken on the #Brenner 🇮🇹🇦🇹 line in September 1982: this is the northbound #Rome to #Munich “Alpen Express” arriving at #Chiusa/#Klausen station. The long consist is hauled by two locos, an #FS Class E.636 and an E.656 electric.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
September 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A photo taken on the #Brenner 🇮🇹🇦🇹 line in September 1982: this is the northbound #Rome to #Munich “Alpen Express” arriving at #Chiusa/#Klausen station. The long consist is hauled by two locos, an #FS Class E.636 and an E.656 electric.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
Another particularly #European 🇪🇺 train today: #Eurocity #Vauban, originally starting in Milan 🇮🇹, seen here at Saint-Louis 🇫🇷 on its way from Switzerland🇨🇭to Belgium 🇧🇪 via Strasbourg 🇫🇷 & Luxembourg 🇱🇺. The loco: #SNCF 🇫🇷, the coaches #SBB 🇨🇭 & #SNCB #NMBS 🇧🇪. Picture taken in February 2009. #PastTrainTrips
February 4, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Another particularly #European 🇪🇺 train today: #Eurocity #Vauban, originally starting in Milan 🇮🇹, seen here at Saint-Louis 🇫🇷 on its way from Switzerland🇨🇭to Belgium 🇧🇪 via Strasbourg 🇫🇷 & Luxembourg 🇱🇺. The loco: #SNCF 🇫🇷, the coaches #SBB 🇨🇭 & #SNCB #NMBS 🇧🇪. Picture taken in February 2009. #PastTrainTrips
#Bergen 🇳🇴, summer 2005: an #NSB #InterCity bound for #Oslo awaits departure. A Class #El18 electric of Swiss design, similar to #SBB’s #Re460, will haul the train, composed of Type 7 cars.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
April 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
#Bergen 🇳🇴, summer 2005: an #NSB #InterCity bound for #Oslo awaits departure. A Class #El18 electric of Swiss design, similar to #SBB’s #Re460, will haul the train, composed of Type 7 cars.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
#Morez (Jura) 🇫🇷, is a nice little town close to the Swiss🇨🇭border. In autumn 2004, when these photos were taken, the old-fashioned, charming train station has seen a variety of workings by the iconic (and meanwhile withdrawn) #SNCF class #X2800 Diesel units in their twilight years. #PastTrainTrips
May 16, 2026 at 5:14 PM
#Morez (Jura) 🇫🇷, is a nice little town close to the Swiss🇨🇭border. In autumn 2004, when these photos were taken, the old-fashioned, charming train station has seen a variety of workings by the iconic (and meanwhile withdrawn) #SNCF class #X2800 Diesel units in their twilight years. #PastTrainTrips
A #Montenegro 🇲🇪 Railways #ŽCG local train for the country’s capital city #Podgorica is seen here departing from #Bar, a port city by the #Adriatic. A six-axle Class 461 electric hauls the train, composed of just three carriages. Pictures taken in July 2017.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
March 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A #Montenegro 🇲🇪 Railways #ŽCG local train for the country’s capital city #Podgorica is seen here departing from #Bar, a port city by the #Adriatic. A six-axle Class 461 electric hauls the train, composed of just three carriages. Pictures taken in July 2017.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
The #MOB🇨🇭#GoldenPassRailway unit ABDe 8/8 #4003 is seen here at #Montreux station in August 2005, ready to work a through train to #Zweisimmen. These handsome metre-gauge trains, built in 1968, were withdrawn a few years ago.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
November 24, 2024 at 6:55 PM
The #MOB🇨🇭#GoldenPassRailway unit ABDe 8/8 #4003 is seen here at #Montreux station in August 2005, ready to work a through train to #Zweisimmen. These handsome metre-gauge trains, built in 1968, were withdrawn a few years ago.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
A photo taken at #Helsingborg 🇸🇪 in spring 1985: this is the 14:25 international service, train number 464, with through cars from #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to #Oslo 🇳🇴. They were transferred from #Helsingør by train ferry across the #Øresund #Öresund a few minutes earlier.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
January 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A photo taken at #Helsingborg 🇸🇪 in spring 1985: this is the 14:25 international service, train number 464, with through cars from #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to #Oslo 🇳🇴. They were transferred from #Helsingør by train ferry across the #Øresund #Öresund a few minutes earlier.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
A picture taken at #Binche 🇧🇪 in June 2004, on the occasion of a railfan event organised by the Belgian train enthusiasts association #PFT #TSP: on the right, the “farewell to #SNCB #NMBS Class 25 (and 22)” charter train and on the left a type #AM75 unit on an hourly regional service.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
April 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A picture taken at #Binche 🇧🇪 in June 2004, on the occasion of a railfan event organised by the Belgian train enthusiasts association #PFT #TSP: on the right, the “farewell to #SNCB #NMBS Class 25 (and 22)” charter train and on the left a type #AM75 unit on an hourly regional service.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
Pictures taken in August 2010, while visiting #Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦: #Sarajevo’s old town, a tram, trolleybuses and the railway station.
The train on the last photo is a former #OlimpikEkspres unit, put in service on the occasion of the Winter Olympics, held in Sarajevo in 1984.
#PastTrainTrips
The train on the last photo is a former #OlimpikEkspres unit, put in service on the occasion of the Winter Olympics, held in Sarajevo in 1984.
#PastTrainTrips
December 10, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Pictures taken in August 2010, while visiting #Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦: #Sarajevo’s old town, a tram, trolleybuses and the railway station.
The train on the last photo is a former #OlimpikEkspres unit, put in service on the occasion of the Winter Olympics, held in Sarajevo in 1984.
#PastTrainTrips
The train on the last photo is a former #OlimpikEkspres unit, put in service on the occasion of the Winter Olympics, held in Sarajevo in 1984.
#PastTrainTrips
Among the train photo classics from #Zagreb 🇭🇷 main station: the night train for #Zurich 🇨🇭 via #Ljubljana 🇸🇮 and #Villach 🇦🇹 waiting for departure in the evening sun, with the #HŽ sleeper right behind the Class 1142 electric. Picture taken in May 2018.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
April 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Among the train photo classics from #Zagreb 🇭🇷 main station: the night train for #Zurich 🇨🇭 via #Ljubljana 🇸🇮 and #Villach 🇦🇹 waiting for departure in the evening sun, with the #HŽ sleeper right behind the Class 1142 electric. Picture taken in May 2018.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
An #ÖBB 🇦🇹 Class 2095 narrow-gauge diesel at #Gmünd, awaiting further duties on the #Waldviertel 760mm network. We note the Opel Kadett behind the loco, its varnish matching almost perfectly with the 2095’s #Jaffa livery.
Summer 1991
#PastTrainTrips
Summer 1991
#PastTrainTrips
December 7, 2024 at 6:50 PM
An #ÖBB 🇦🇹 Class 2095 narrow-gauge diesel at #Gmünd, awaiting further duties on the #Waldviertel 760mm network. We note the Opel Kadett behind the loco, its varnish matching almost perfectly with the 2095’s #Jaffa livery.
Summer 1991
#PastTrainTrips
Summer 1991
#PastTrainTrips
The #Arlberg Express on the eponymous railway line in Austria 🇦🇹. Positioned right behind the #ÖBB Class 1044 loco are the mail van and the @diningcar.at. Through coaches from #Paris 🇫🇷 via #Basel 🇨🇭 are at the rear. Picture taken through the open window of a westbound train. Mid 1980s.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
January 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The #Arlberg Express on the eponymous railway line in Austria 🇦🇹. Positioned right behind the #ÖBB Class 1044 loco are the mail van and the @diningcar.at. Through coaches from #Paris 🇫🇷 via #Basel 🇨🇭 are at the rear. Picture taken through the open window of a westbound train. Mid 1980s.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
A photo taken in August 1985 at, probably, #Udine 🇮🇹. (Or was it #Mestre 🤔?) An #FS Class 646 electric is hauling a train composed of, back then rather new, MDVC-type cars for regional services. On the left, a Class ALe 840 unit, I think, on local duties.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
September 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A photo taken in August 1985 at, probably, #Udine 🇮🇹. (Or was it #Mestre 🤔?) An #FS Class 646 electric is hauling a train composed of, back then rather new, MDVC-type cars for regional services. On the left, a Class ALe 840 unit, I think, on local duties.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
The #Vienna 🇦🇹 to #Prague 🇨🇿 and #Berlin 🇩🇪 train named #Vindobona is seen here at #Gmünd on a summer day in 1991. The #ÖBB 2143 diesel will give way to the #ČSD class 754, partly visible on the right. This locomotive change comes with the addition of two DR cars.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
December 3, 2024 at 4:19 PM
The #Vienna 🇦🇹 to #Prague 🇨🇿 and #Berlin 🇩🇪 train named #Vindobona is seen here at #Gmünd on a summer day in 1991. The #ÖBB 2143 diesel will give way to the #ČSD class 754, partly visible on the right. This locomotive change comes with the addition of two DR cars.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
A #RENFE 🇪🇸 #AVE Class 102 high-speed #Talgo trainset to #Barcelona is ready to depart from #Madrid #Atocha station. Technically able to run at 350 kph, it has been nicknamed "pato" (“duck”) by Spanish railfans because of its 🦆 beak-shaped front. December 2005. #PastTrainTrips
November 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM
A #RENFE 🇪🇸 #AVE Class 102 high-speed #Talgo trainset to #Barcelona is ready to depart from #Madrid #Atocha station. Technically able to run at 350 kph, it has been nicknamed "pato" (“duck”) by Spanish railfans because of its 🦆 beak-shaped front. December 2005. #PastTrainTrips
#Luxembourg 🇱🇺 station: the 10:32 service, IR2431, for #Münster 🇩🇪 is ready to depart. The orient-red #DB dual voltage class 181.2 loco will work the train along the #Mosel valley as far as #Koblenz. The carriages still retain the #InterRegio livery. Picture taken in March 2002.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips
February 10, 2026 at 5:37 PM
#Luxembourg 🇱🇺 station: the 10:32 service, IR2431, for #Münster 🇩🇪 is ready to depart. The orient-red #DB dual voltage class 181.2 loco will work the train along the #Mosel valley as far as #Koblenz. The carriages still retain the #InterRegio livery. Picture taken in March 2002.
#PastTrainTrips
#PastTrainTrips