Dear all, Starting from 31st May 2009, PKP operates a daily nighttrain Kraków - Lvov, with SUW2000 technology. The timetable for train 35/36 is different from...
Gentlemen I need some help to update one locomotive list. Here are the German depots (Bw) ED Wuppertal: Scherfede and Warburg (Westf.) ED Essen: Paderborn and...
I recently came across two interesting photos in an archive in London. Unfortunately I am unable to post them to the group for copyright reasons. The photos...
Gentlemen I made on Saturday (13.06.2009) a journey behind wood burning steam locomotive here in Finland. The engine was well kept serie Tk3 Nr. 1168 (Lokomo...
Martin I try to look through copies of original Russian locomotive lists 1872 and 1875 to find out more of "GOSTAL" (VISITER?) if appear under this name in the...
Gentlemen I made in August 1968 quite long train journey in Eastern Europe. Or may I say then politically "Eastern Block". I had no idea what was going to be...
Gentlemen I have to repeat it here again. Before 22.08.1939 the fastest travelling route from Helsinki / Helsingfors to Berlin was by air service offered by AG...
Gentlemen I continue the story of summer 1939 when Finns had such connections to Central Europe, never repeated again since then. The plans for August 1940,...
Gentlemen I sent 09.06.2009 an e-mail just to ask some detailed information of some ex PKP steam locomotives which were found in ED Hannover locomotive depots....
Gentlemen Over the years I have tried to obtain reliable information for some railways / railroads now more than forty years outside Finland (which I have...
Gentlemen My memory again. This is a result of working out one subject, then stop, and place it aside to wait for further research when more information comes...
Gentlemen Why I have been against to publish any half compiled material of DRB-Ost from period 1941 - 1944 is shown in one example below. German source shows...
Dear Martin and other interested members At first sorry of this lateness for the message but it took for me quite long time fo reach the A 3 size paper copies ...
... [snip] ... Thanks indeed Jukka for a typically comprehensive reply. However, some questions would appear to remain unanswered. What follows ia rather ...
Dear Martin and other members interested Peharps I have lost touch to English language, but I meant that either Urquhart or Alexandrovsk Works took model from...
Gentlemen I have been wondering for long time how passengers from / to Kaluga town central are been transferred to Moscow - Kiev main line railway station...
Thanks Bengt for additional information. Sweden seems to be too close making me to forget what had been in the Swedish rails during the steam locomotive era. ...
Gentlemen I have forgot one Russian source which lists the captured 1435 mm gauge locomotives on 31.12.1943 / 01.01.1944 and 31.12.1944 / 01.01.1945 by the Red...
Gentlemen It seems that Eurostar train operator had fell to so called "American late 1940´s sickness" when calculating the ticket prices between Paris and...
In Sweden all X2000-trains are individually priced and prices change almost daily depending on how early you book your tickets. Sometimes 1st class is cheaper...
Hello, there was also a 0-8-2 tank locomotive in Switzerland, Waldenburgerbahn G 4/5 7, SLM-3646/1938, unfortunately scrapped 1954 after the railway's...
Gentlemen The opening the jungle of price levels for high speed trains in Europe is just classic examle to which "wild prices" are leading in the future in...
Pricing is a big challenge indeed. The Helsinki - St Petersburg fast service with dual voltage Pendolinos should start operating next year when the track...
Gentleman One budget air line operator has for long time offered for its certain flights Helsinki - Vantaa to Berlin - Tegel return priced at 39 euro. Last...
Gentlemen For many years I have been wondered why in 1984 (and in 2009) train speeds between St.Petersburg and Pskov 274.2 km (from St.Petersburg Vitebsk Stn...
Gentlemen This by pass line from Tshudovo to Veijmarn seems to have been totally completed. In 1916 Imerial Russian Army built an conneting line from Volossova...
Gentlemen It is really regrettably matter that the Russians have taken such a negative attitude to develope passenger train traffic over this main line to...
Gentlemen As promised here are some new information taken out from daily newspaper published here in Helsinki. On 29.06.2009 an interesting article was...