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Sorry for another question in the space of a few days. Just seen a SNCB loco hauled train (i11?) on the HSL Zuid between Rotterdam and Breda. Is this a new service or is it more testing going on for something? I haven’t kept up with changes. If it’s a new service, does it run in addition to...

In the early hours of this morning, I was in my artic truck taking a trailer load of white goods to a distribution centre in Zwolle. As you come into the city, the road passes over a railway stabling point and I normally look down to see what’s in the depot. This morning, there was a mystery...

A video from the Man Alive series from back in the day popped up on my youtube feed recently about what happened to the Great Train Robbers. I have always been curious about the schedule of the mail train and the diagrams for the crew but have never found anything online. How far did the...

Does anyone know if NS has ended the advance tickets with discount scheme? I don’t see the option on the app. Thanks

I drive an articulated truck in Holland and Belgium and one of my regular runs is to Antwerp docks. The distribution centre is next to a container rail yard so it is always interesting watching the cranes in operation. However, on the other side is a hump shunting yard. In today’s health and...

Sorry, this is one of those random questions that come to me at night sometimes. When English Electric first built the engine for the class 40, did they know it was going to whistle? Or did they hear it and say ‘Bloody hell, it sounds like a kettle on the boil but we’ll keep it that way and...

I guess this is more directed at the older members on this forum. Are there any sounds from the railway of the past that you don’t hear much these days if at all, that remind you of journeys from your childhood or younger travelling days? For me, it is childhood holidays travelling from London...

I recently watched the 2017 remake of Murder on the Orient Express (much prefer the 1974 version) on tv. I don’t know how long the train was supposed to be stuck in the snow drift, but the train interior lights were fully on for the entire time. It got me to thinking, how were the lights...

Hello. I don't know if anybody can possibly help. I booked two couchettes on the night train1963/1965 from Milan to Palermo for next month. We've been allocated berths 63 and 71 in a supposedly four berth compartment. Does anybody know if they are indeed in the same compartment or where I could...

This trip report is a follow up to my Chicago advice thread in the international section, and is about my 53 hours spent in Chicago, riding the Metra surburban trains and the CTA subway and buses during my visit while my flight attendant wife attended a course for her airline in the Willis...

I see in the Dutch media, that Corendon, a Turkish holiday company, wants to run their own exclusive trains between Schipol and Brussels airport, and later to Dusseldorf airport to help their package holiday customers connect between various flights of theirs. They have their own airline. If it...

My flight attendant wife is going to Chicago for a course next month, and I can tag along too to take advantage of the free hotel room as I get spouse free airline travel. While she's in the classroom, it means I can have a day or two to do some train spotting in the Chicago area. Is anybody...

A friend is currently on the Berlin to Amsterdam IC. He wants to know why they use two pantographs on the NS when the lead pantograph is more likely to entangle on the wires? As the loco was hooking up to the consist at Bad Bentheim when he took the photo, maybe it was for low speed operation?

I’m hearing on the Dutch news headlines that four people returning from a techno festival in Spain have been struck and killed by a train at a level crossing among a group of seven people Do any of our Spanish correspondents know more details? Sorry I don’t have a link. Just heard it on the...

Bit of an ugly duckling I thnk. Maybe it will look better when the livery is applied.

On youtube, there are many videos featuring camcorder footage of British Rail in the 80’s and 90’s. Can anyone point me to videos featuring loco and classic stock in France, Germany and Italy? I realise camcorders were a new and possibly expensive fad during those two decades, but there seems...

Thanks to work paying, I had the opportunity to travel on this night train the other week, starting with the THALYS from Rotterdam. I am just curious if anyone knows where the crew change takes place? I had a fitful night’s sleep due to my concern I might sleep past my stop at Veynes Devoluy...

Just one of those random questions that occurred to me. Secondmen, or drivers assistants used to be a big thing on British Railways in the seventies and eighties before they were phased out. Did drivers assistants feature on the railways of mainland Europe back in the day? Are they still...

Just in case anyone is in Amsterdam today 23/06/23, and has the right to work in The Netherlands and can speak Dutch, the NS are holding a rail recruitment event at Centraal station between 10:00 and 14:00. They are recruiting for all grades on the railway including trainee drivers to join NS...

With regard to the TUI Ski Express which runs every weekend from Amsterdam to the Austrian Alps, I would like to see this train as it makes a stop at Utrecht on its return journey which I presume is on a Sunday. I would like to see the stainless steel P class sleeping cars in the consist at...