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On the shunt in Hanoi, Vietnam. Click on the photo
January 2, 1995. It was my last day in Hanoi. We had returned to the city from a five-day scooter ride in the country. We had been lost, cold, battered by the “Chinese wind”, rained on and starved of gas and food, and Vietnam had, occasionally, felt mean and less enchanting, as it would from under a soaked poncho and freezing mud in our boots. We had tickets for tonight’s train, the Reunification Express to Saigon. But first I had to wash the mud off my scooter and inhale whatever last memories I could of Hanoi. Read More…
A fitter arrives for the day's work at the loco shed in Wolsztyn, Poland
Just back from Poland. Got sweaty, dirty and a bit overheated. Read More…
The famous Apple Express tourist train may grind to a permanent halt at the end of the holiday season. The train, which runs on a part of the world’s longest narrow-gauge railway, was supposed to enjoy a certain amount of financial support from the Eastern Cape government. Read More…
The fleet of “preserved” steam locomotives that were hit by scrap thieves at an open-air museum near Krugersdorp have all been cut up for scrap. Read More…
The magnificent, single-span steel bridge that crosses the Zambezi at Victoria Falls is 105 years old today.
The bridge was built at this spot on the instructions of the Empire’s Man in Africa, Cecil John Rhodes, whose dream of forging a railway from Cape Town to Cairo was well advanced by the turn of the 20th Century. Read More…
Transnet has finally pulled the plug on the struggling Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe tourist train, bringing the curtain down on the country’s last scheduled – when it ran – steam-hauled passenger train. Read More…
A friend of mine in the banana trade has recently made the long trek to northern Mozambique. In Nampula, the capital of the Norte, he and a colleague stumbled across something that made my day. Read More…
This was the scene yesterday after a steam-hauled tourist train carrying 627 people derailed near Cullinan after thieves removed some 40 wooden sleepers during the night. Read More…
If you’ve ever wanted to own your own steam locomotives – and the railway to run them on – your time has come. Read More…
London’s Circle Line railway, which for years has been notorious for slow running and endless service delays, will soon be history. Read More…
