The pages 334 - 367 (the list of trains) of the SZD timetable 1984/85 are available at http://service.gmx.net/mc/xcWgvx25HAUytSkn6cBM5QqLCTs8On ("GMX ...
Hello, I've just scanned the international timetable of Soviet railways from 1981. It contains timetables for interesting routes like Moskva - Teheran as well ...
While visiting Chernovitsi on Sunday October 23 I was surprised to hear a steam whistle. Subsequent discussion with shed staff indicated that 3 steam locos are...
* I guess it's a class 159 loco. But which one? It could be the one from Wygoda 159-4-95. Marcel Schuring _____ [Non-text portions of this message have been...
* ... That was my guess, too. But why on blocks? It can be that it gets an overhaul there. The engine did not belong to the Wygoda network but to Dzherelo,...
Looks likve we've got the first evidence of the existence of bilevel coaches in the USSR: http://www.parovoz.com/newgallery/index.php?ID=23987&LNG=EN Does...
Dmitry, In a german magazine I once saw a photo of such coach. They look similar to those that have been mass produced for east-german railways. As I remember...
Dmitry, In Eastern Germany Bilevel coaches were widespread, basically they had these versions: - 1952 build by VEB Waggonbau Görlitz 2 and 4 section trains,...
Hello all, The doubledecker coaches for the SZD were made in the GDR by the VEB Waggonbau Görlitz in 1964. They were dark green with a light creme stripe. ...
Hello, James wrote: The doubledecker coaches for the SZD were made in the GDR by the VEB Waggonbau Görlitz in 1964. They were dark green with a light creme...
Hi Marcel, ... The article in which I found my data states that the interior design of the SZD coaches was essentially identical to the standard GDR double...
Hi, When I visited the Oktyabrskaya Railway museum in 2001, at that time on Lity. Prospekt, they had a picture of these couches but without the creme coloured...
Hello! Yes, I'm watching all these messages, but had no time to reply. Well, the German-built coaches on the picture were surely made for local services. They...
When I first joined this group, I asked about a rumoured bilevel emu supposedly running in Moskva. Nobody then knew anything about it, and I saw no evidence...
There were never any bi-level passenger rolling stock in Russia apart from those two small batches of coaches in 1960-th. But there was a proposal to build...
Hello all, Daniil Monakhov wrote: But I think that long-distance bi- level sleeping cars could be very successful in Russia. Look at the website from talgo in...
Marcel Yes I have received your mails.Thank you.I changed my computer just today to HP Compaq nx 6110. I have some teething problems with it.I even cannot put...
Neil Robinson Hello Could you specify what kind of information you need? Locomotive lists? Early plans for electrification? Opening dates? List of still "...
Sorry Neil I tried to send this message to your e-mail address but it was not delivered but returned. This seems to be the only way get it through. Was the...
... From: Jukka Nurminen To: neilrobinson@... Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:07 AM Subject: Caucasus Tramways This is the message I tried to send...
Hello Thanks very much for the information. I am going through it at the moment and will get back to you later this weekend. I am alarmed that you could not...
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Jukka, Marcel asked for a translation and (since I know little Czech) voila: One of them - 8.109 - appeared in 1945 at Chomutov, where it was named "Vlasta"...
Thanks Ernesti ( in Finnish ! ) When we combined our knowledge peharps we can give something to European locomotive history which have not recorded before.I...