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Featured Photo: France, October 2009. SNCF CC72064, still in old blue livery, is seen waiting to depart from Tours with 4406 15:05 Tours to Lyon Perrache service on Saturday 10 October 2009. This is one of the few services still booked for a 72000 locomotive. Photo taken by Julian Mandeville.
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Just back from a (very cold) Brussels evening peak. IR3913: 2634(top) + 2626(tail) 2615 was also seen leaving Brussels Central for Midi on a rake of coaches
A few notes from a recent 3-day trip: 5/2: Haulage: 101026 06:22 Hamburg Dammtor - Berlin Suedkreuz 08:41 120139 08:46 Berlin Suedkreuz - Weimar 10:59 101077
The closed line from Mellingen to Wettingen is currently in use late evenings in one direction only due to engineering work in the Heitersberg tunnel. The
Flew to Poznan Friday night, arriving to find thick snow everywhere. The whole country seems to be covered with the stuff as no green fields or bare streets
Thionville's 16762 has at last succumbed to the inevitability of her fate. This leaves Lens as sole operating depot for 16500 with 22 still in service on TER