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I wanted to get some advice on if there are any spots in the greater Kuala Lumpur area that are good for catching cargo trains? Have not had much luck google searching trying to find much of anything about trainspotting in Malaysia. Thanks for any advice!

It’s fine to photo trains. A lot of Italian train spotters out there. In Milano check out Milano Rogoredo, it’s a good spot for passenger and cargo and no one will bother you. Genova is quite a Trainspotting hub if you wanted to head that way.

Thank you all for the answers!

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew where the Polar Express trains being run out of Birmingham Moor Street run to before returning on each roundtrip? They seem to have quite a few runs each day they are operating so I thought it would be an easy way to see multiple steam trains in a day...

Thank you very much for the information, will hope on my next vacation here there will be less dry and hot weather and more steam.

Hello, I wanted to see if anyone knew what was pulling todays (August 9) Sunset Steam Express. The Rail adventure site says Steam. The official website seems to imply diesel. I am on vacation to London so was hoping to catch some steam! Thank you!

Thank you for the info. Do you know if while it is stored in Bo'ness if it can be viewed easily or if they store it indoors? Thank you, Adam

Hello, I will be in Edinburgh on Friday August 2nd and noticed on Thursday there will be a mainline run with Tornado from Edinburgh. Does anyone know if it will be stored in Edinburgh after the trip and if it is in a location publicly accessible on Friday? Thank you, Adam

Hello, Will be in London at the end of the month. I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions on where the busiest area in London might be to see freight trains? Thank you for any suggestions. -Adam

Hello Michael, Thank you for the details on it, I assumed it would be added to the train at Stratford. I take it Hanwell loop is near the Hanwell station? Is it possible to see the locomotive from Hanwell station? Would you know if there is any chance to see the locomotive in advance of the...

Hello, I will be in London this weekend and saw that Union of South Africa will be leading a tour from London Stratford on Saturday morning. Does anyone know if you can see it moving to Stratford in advance of the tour or where it is stored before the tour? Thank you for your help! -Adam

Thank you for the information. Do you happen to know if the BLS lorry trains have a published schedule? I would assume they need to share something with the drivers.

Thank you for the details. I did mean Railpin for the BLS trains, got them mixed up.

Does anyone know how this ultimate effects frieght traffic within Switzerland? Will be in Basel in a few weeks and had hoped to train spot, but is there basically nothing coming through there now? Also how does this effect things like the BLS line to Simplon and the BLS Railion lorry trains?

Hello, Does anyone know of any source of freight schedules that might cover the BLS, both the original route and the Base Tunnel? Thank you, Adam

Thank you everyone for the advice!

Hello, I will be in London staying near Paddington, and I was wondering if anyone had a suggestion on a nearby station to trainspot freights from. Thank you, Adam

Thank you for the details Gordon, that is what I was looking for. Is there any advice you can give about good places to photography in the Gottard region that would have the weekend freights? It is OK with me if they are mostly European and not Swiss locos. Appreciate your help. -Adam

Thanks for the info, for the Street Running, what type of trains runs on it usually? In Google Street view you can see a loco hauled train.

Hello, I have traveled around the Geneva-Lausanne area and it seems that there are no freight trains on the weekends. Does anyone know if freight runs in other parts of Switzerland on weekends? In an older thread on Swiss trainspotting two areas looked interesting, one was street running...