08/09/2010
| Photos from the northern half of the Gotthard railway, the section between Arth-Goldau and Göschenen, with the north ramp (Nordrampe) starting in Erstfeld.More...
A new section of the Hungarian railway line 80 is accessible on my site. This time, I will upload the photos gradually, starting with the Subcarpathia Express.
Perhaps as an after-effect of the previous sunspot-minimum, at the beginning of 2010 an unusual amount of snow covered the major part of Hungary. Between the frequent snowfalls, there is rarely an opportunity to see the snow-covered landscape at sunshine. Since meteorologists predict foggy and overcast weather for the next days, I decided today to take advantage of this sunny day, and take photos of the HÉV line of Szentendre...
The line 10 is one of the longest tram lines in Europe. This 1000 mm gauge line stretches from Rodersdorf through the city centre of Basel to Dornach: it is a tramway and a suburban railway at the same time. Since 2009 we can find a new attraction on this varied line: the Tango tram of Stadler.
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The Sissach - Olten railway line was once one of the most important lines of Switzerland. This specially beautiful railway - today a secondary line - is continually threatened by closure. Now, a company wants to revive it with steam operated trains...
The pages of my Austrian photos have been upgraded and translated to English, with photos, which have not been available yet. During the last years, the rolling stock of the Austrian railways changed a lot. Therefore some of the depicted locomotives and trainsets cannot be found on the Austrian railway lines anymore: The class 1012 electric locomotives have been sold to Sweden, the loco 1822 005 moved to Poland. While the classes 1042 and 4030 have been withdrawn.
