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4/18/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Peider SwissTrip
Dates:11/4/2019 - 11/4/2019
Album Info:This is a "virtual" tour around Europe ... a collection of different countries I visited in 2019.
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Tour around Europe - part 1 Austria
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 1 Austria
Description:  An Austrian Taurus Class 1116 operating a Swiss train Stuttgart-Zurich near Welschingen-Neuhausen (Germany). This hired Class 1116 "helps out" because of late delivery of new German trains.
Photo Date:  3/19/2019  Upload Date: 12/17/2019 2:39:10 PM
Location:  Welschingen-Neuhausen, DE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  OBB 1116(UNKNOWN)
Views:  220   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 1 Austria
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 1 Austria
Description:  The Austrian national flag goes along the whole, seven coaches, Railjet train.
Photo Date:  8/13/2019  Upload Date: 12/17/2019 2:39:21 PM
Location:  Bregenz, AT
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  OBB 1116(UNKNOWN)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 1 Austria
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 1 Austria
Description:  Together for a save mobility - A promotion of ÖBB, the austrian rail company, and ÖAMTC, the austrian car- and touring club.
Photo Date:  11/4/2019  Upload Date: 12/17/2019 2:39:12 PM
Location:  Nenzing, AT
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  OBB 1116(UNKNOWN)
Views:  207   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 1 Austria
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 1 Austria
Description:  Two Class 1116 Taurus with each 6400 kW on the way from Switzerland (mountains in the background) to Austria with an intermodal train. Soon they are approaching the Arlberg summit.
Photo Date:  11/4/2019  Upload Date: 12/17/2019 2:39:14 PM
Location:  Nenzing, AT
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  OBB 1116(UNKNOWN)
Views:  210   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 1 Austria
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 1 Austria
Description:  A regional train Class 4024 heading west to Feldkirch/Austria and later to Lindau/Germany. In the background Swiss mountains.
Photo Date:  11/4/2019  Upload Date: 12/17/2019 2:39:17 PM
Location:  Nenzing, AT
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  OBB 4024(UNKNOWN)
Views:  213   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 1 Austria
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 1 Austria
Description:  The Arlberg Railway is Austria's only east-west mountain railway. It is one of the highest standard gauge railways in Europe. Here the Railjet Eurocity from Zurich/Switzerland on the way to Vienna, the main capital of Austria, pushed uphill by a Class 1116 (still behind the trees).
Photo Date:  11/4/2019  Upload Date: 12/17/2019 2:39:19 PM
Location:  Dalaas, AT
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Tour around Europe - part 2 Belgium
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 2 Belgium
Description:  In 2008 SNCB ordered 305 three-car EMUs, Class AM 08, a Siemens Desiro ML design. Delivery was 2011-2016.
Photo Date:  5/14/2019  Upload Date: 12/18/2019 12:58:50 PM
Location:  Zeebrugge, BE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SNCB 08(UNKNOWN)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 2 Belgium
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 2 Belgium
Description:  The Class 13 of SNCB are a type of mixed use 200 km/h multivoltage electric locomotive of type Tractis designed by Alstom/F. Sixty units were produced in 1997-2001.
Photo Date:  5/14/2019  Upload Date: 12/18/2019 12:59:22 PM
Location:  Zeebrugge, BE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SNCB 13(UNKNOWN)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 2 Belgium
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 2 Belgium
Description:  SNCB 7863 is shunting at Zeebrugge harbour.
Photo Date:  5/14/2019  Upload Date: 12/18/2019 12:59:25 PM
Location:  Zeebrugge, BE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SNCB 78(UNKNOWN)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 2 Belgium
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 2 Belgium
Description:  The NMBS/SNCB Class 77 (also known as HLD 77 or HLR 77) is a class of 4 axle B'B' road switcher diesel hydraulic locomotive designed for shunting and freight work. As 170 locos were ordered, some became Class 78 and these have line equipment for Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
Photo Date:  5/14/2019  Upload Date: 12/18/2019 12:59:27 PM
Location:  Zeebrugge, BE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SNCB 78(UNKNOWN)
Views:  195   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Description:  The Ribblehead Viaduct or Batty Moss Viaduct carries the Settle–Carlisle railway across Batty Moss in the Ribble Valley at Ribblehead, in North Yorkshire, England. Construction began in late 1869. It necessitated a large workforce, up to 2,300 men. By the end of 1874, the last stone of the structure had been laid. A Northern Rail Class 158/0 three car DMU passes the bridge as a short sun beam came for my happyness (!).
Photo Date:  6/3/2019  Upload Date: 12/18/2019 2:22:38 PM
Location:  Ribblehead, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  NR 158(UNKNOWN)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Description:  Two DRS Class 68 operate a nuclear waste train near Lancaster. Direct Rail Services (DRS) is a rail freight company in Great Britain. It was created in 1994 by British Nuclear Fuels Ltd to take over British Rail's handling of nuclear material.
Photo Date:  6/3/2019  Upload Date: 12/18/2019 2:22:32 PM
Location:  Lancaster, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  DRS 68(UNKNOWN)
Views:  216   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Description:  The British Rail Class 90 electric locomotives were built by British Rail Engineering Limited at Crewe Works in 1987-1990. Here a double unit of DB UK passes Lancaster.
Photo Date:  6/4/2019  Upload Date: 12/18/2019 2:22:22 PM
Location:  Lancaster, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Description:  The British Rail Class 143 is a diesel multiple unit, part of the Pacer family of trains introduced between 1985 and 1986. They will be phased out soon.
Photo Date:  6/9/2019  Upload Date: 12/18/2019 2:22:18 PM
Location:  Dawlish, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  GWR 143(UNKNOWN)
Views:  209   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Description:  The Bodmin heritage railway acquired its Class 33 Bo-Bo loco in the 1990s and spent several years on getting it back into operational condition.
Photo Date:  6/12/2019  Upload Date: 12/18/2019 2:22:24 PM
Location:  Bodmin Parkway, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  BR 33(UNKNOWN)
Views:  206   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Description:  The British Rail Class 33 also known as "Crompton" is a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives ordered in 1957. Now it is in service with the Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway heritage railway.
Photo Date:  6/12/2019  Upload Date: 12/18/2019 2:22:27 PM
Location:  Bodmin Parkway, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  BR 33(UNKNOWN)
Views:  216   Comments: 1
Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Description:  EWS (English, Welsh & Scottish Railway) is since 2007 part of DB Schenker Rail (UK). Here it operates a grain consist through Bodmin. The Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) Class 66 (or JT42CWR) are Co-Co diesel locomotives built by EMD for the European heavy freight market.
Photo Date:  6/12/2019  Upload Date: 12/18/2019 2:22:36 PM
Location:  Bodmin Parkway, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  EWS 66(UNKNOWN)
Views:  203   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 3 England
Description:  The Dartmouth Steam Railway, formerly known as the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, is a 6.7-mile heritage railway on the former Great Western Railway branch line between Paignton and Kingswear in Devon, England.
Photo Date:  6/13/2019  Upload Date: 12/18/2019 2:22:29 PM
Location:  Paignton, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Description:  The new Bombardier Twindexx double-deck coaches are used in German inter-city rail traffic. The brand is IC2 and is replacing older IC-equipment.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 12/20/2019 11:41:13 AM
Location:  Welschingen-Neuhausen, DE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Description:  The Hohenzollerische Landesbahn (HzL) is one of the largest non-federally owned railway companies in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 (Class 650) is the first widely used, new-generation, diesel railcar in Germany. Two independent diesel-mechanical drive units, e.g. from MAN, run either on diesel fuel or Biodiesel from rape seed oil, each drive both axles on one of the two bogies.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 12/20/2019 11:41:25 AM
Location:  Welschingen-Neuhausen, DE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  HZL 650(UNKNOWN)
Views:  178   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Description:  RheinCargo EMD Class 66/JT42CWR is leased from Beacon Rail Leasing Ltd., London. Here it operates an empty kerosene tank train from the airport of Memmingen.
Photo Date:  8/13/2019  Upload Date: 12/20/2019 11:41:30 AM
Location:  Memmingen, DE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  RHEINCARGO 66(UNKNOWN)
Views:  181   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Description:  The Vossloh G1206 is a B'B' diesel hydraulic freight locomotive built in Kiel and used by several European railway operators including Infraleuna. This company is responsible for the infrastructure and supply chain of the 1300 hectares Leuna Chemical Complex near Leibzig.
Photo Date:  9/6/2019  Upload Date: 12/20/2019 11:41:33 AM
Location:  Grosskorbetha, DE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  INFRALEUNA MAK1206(UNKNOWN)
Views:  179   Comments: 1
Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Description:  Outside display of Peenemunde Technical Museum. During WWII the location was involved in the development, production and testing of V1 rocket (foreground on the start ramp) and V2 (standing, developed by the team of Wernher von Braun) rockets. For the work shuttle of local workers from the village and prisoners from the small nearby concentration camp some rail cars where in use.
Photo Date:  9/12/2019  Upload Date: 12/20/2019 11:41:36 AM
Location:  Peenemunde, DE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Description:  Lignite ensures one quarter of Germany’s electricity generation: LEAG is the fourth largest power plant operator in Germany and the biggest East German energy company. The lignite is transported using the company’s own central railway network, which is 360 km long.
Photo Date:  9/18/2019  Upload Date: 12/20/2019 11:39:11 AM
Location:  Lausitz, DE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  LEAG EL2M(UNKNOWN)
Views:  184   Comments: 1
Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 4 Germany
Description:  Captrain is one of the leading rail logistics companies in Germany and Europe. It is a subsidiary of French SNCF for all rail freight services outside France. The Siemens Vectron 193 782 is equiped and certified for eight European countries (D/A/H/PL/CZ/SK/RO/NL).
Photo Date:  9/18/2019  Upload Date: 12/20/2019 11:41:19 AM
Location:  Koenigstein, DE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  CAPTRAIN 193(UNKNOWN)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Description:  The "Bo-Bo Box" CD class 372 are multisystem electric locomotives, manufactured by Škoda Plzen from 1988 to 1991. The locomotives were developed to work international trains between Czechoslovakia and Eastern German Republic.
Photo Date:  9/18/2019  Upload Date: 12/21/2019 9:54:48 AM
Location:  Koenigstein, DE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  CSD 372(UNKNOWN)
Views:  160   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Description:  Metrans BR 386 is a multisystem TRAXX for operation in six countries: D/A/CZ/SK/HU/PL. HHLA’s subsidiary Metrans provides highly frequent rail connections from the seaports on the North Sea and the Adriatic in order to serve the export-oriented economies of Central Europe. The company is the market leader for seaport-hinterland container traffic with Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
Photo Date:  9/18/2019  Upload Date: 12/21/2019 9:54:54 AM
Location:  Koenigstein, DE
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  METRANS 386(UNKNOWN)
Views:  145   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Description:  This new Vectron, class 383, was 2018 delivered to S Rail Lease s.r.o., Bratislava and subsequently hired to ŽSSK Cargo - Železnicná spolocnost Cargo Slovakia. During end of 2019, the operator had no purpose for all its ten leased Vectron locomotive. ZSSK Cargo is strongly dependent on steel industry deliveries, the downturn in European steelmaking also means less work for the operator.
Photo Date:  9/21/2019  Upload Date: 1/10/2020 11:15:24 AM
Location:  Decin, CZ
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  ZSSK 383(UNKNOWN)
Views:  189   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Description:  The federal czech operator CD Cargo has twelve new Vectrons, Class 383, in their fleet. They were delivered 2016 till 2018.
Photo Date:  9/21/2019  Upload Date: 12/21/2019 9:54:51 AM
Location:  Decin, CZ
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  CDC 383(UNKNOWN)
Views:  188   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Description:  Class E 499.1 electric locomotives were constructed and built by Škoda Works in Plzen for use in Czechoslovakia by the CSD. This E 499 112 is one of the last operational units. It is used for historic trains and is stationed at Decín.
Photo Date:  9/21/2019  Upload Date: 12/21/2019 9:54:56 AM
Location:  Decin, CZ
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  CSD 499(UNKNOWN)
Views:  155   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Description:  Unipetrol Doprava was the second customer for CZ LOKO's EffiLiner 1600. The Class 753.6 is an extensive modernization of the Czechoslovakian 749 to 754 series. Apart from the frame and bogies, the greatest part of the original components are replaced by new ones. See next picture of AWT 753 for the original appearance.
Photo Date:  9/21/2019  Upload Date: 12/21/2019 9:54:58 AM
Location:  Decin, CZ
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  UNIPETROL 753(UNKNOWN)
Views:  138   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 5 Czech Republic
Description:  Locomotive classes 753 are most used diesel locomotives in Czech republic. Its striking looks has earned it the nickname "Diving Goggles" or "Cobra". Built starting in 1970. AWT is a subsidiary of Polish PKP Cargo International. In the Czech Republic, it ranks second with a market share exceeding 10%.
Photo Date:  9/21/2019  Upload Date: 12/21/2019 9:55:01 AM
Location:  Decin, CZ
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  AWT 753(UNKNOWN)
Views:  180   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Description:  Two local double deck commuter trains are crossing at the station of Mortara, a city in northern Italy.
Photo Date:  4/6/2019  Upload Date: 12/23/2019 1:36:23 PM
Location:  Mortara, IT
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Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Description:  The Paris-Venice night train is operated by company Thello. Thello is an open-access train operator running international services between France and Italy. Founded in 2011, the company is owned by the Italian state owned railway company Trenitalia. Here a Trenitalia Class 402 leads another dead 402 and the night train along the Italian mediterranean coast.
Photo Date:  4/10/2019  Upload Date: 12/23/2019 1:36:06 PM
Location:  Albisola, IT
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  TRENITALIA 402(Bo-Bo Type Electric)
Views:  144   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Description:  The ETR 460 is an electric multiple unit (EMU) tilting train produced by FIAT Ferroviaria (now Alstom Ferroviaria) between 1993 and 1995. 9-car trainset has a capacity of 480 passengers: 137 1st class, 341 2nd class, 2 for disabled persons. Max speed is 155 mph / 230 kph.
Photo Date:  4/12/2019  Upload Date: 12/23/2019 1:36:09 PM
Location:  Asti, IT
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  TRENITALIA 460(Bo-Bo Type Electric)
Views:  144   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Description:  Fresh out of the Bombardier factory in Vado Ligure is this Class 494 of Italian Mercitalia, the Trenitalia freight division. A total of 40 TRAXX DC3 electric locomotives were 2019 assembled in Italy and delivered to the state operator.
Photo Date:  4/12/2019  Upload Date: 12/23/2019 1:36:15 PM
Location:  Isola del Cantone Genua, IT
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  MERCITALIA 494(UNKNOWN)
Views:  121   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Description:  Class E.652 is a type of locomotive derived from E.633/2. They unite the acceleration and hauling capacities of E.633 with the speed of E.632 (160 kph / 99 mph). The first unit was built in 1989, and have been the first Italian locomotive with electronic board diagnostics and relative screen on the driver's desk.
Photo Date:  4/12/2019  Upload Date: 12/23/2019 1:36:18 PM
Location:  Asti, IT
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  MERCITALIA 652(UNKNOWN)
Views:  92   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Description:  The Class E.656 is an Italian articulated rheostatic-type electric locomotive built from 1975 to 1989. The E.656 is nicknamed "Caimano" (Caiman) and are nowadays quite rare to see, as their end of life is coming quickly.
Photo Date:  4/12/2019  Upload Date: 12/23/2019 1:36:21 PM
Location:  Asti, IT
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  MERCITALIA 656(UNKNOWN)
Views:  113   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 6 Italy
Description:  Over 700 units of Class 464 were built by Bombardier and are used by different Italian railroads for regional and commuter services.
Photo Date:  4/15/2019  Upload Date: 12/23/2019 1:36:12 PM
Location:  Trino, IT
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  TRENITALIA 464(Bo-Bo Type Electric)
Views:  104   Comments: 0
 Tour around Europe - part 7 Scotland
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 7 Scotland
Description:  Two Driving Van Trailers of LNER (London North Eastern Railway) are waiting for departure to Aberdeen (northbound) and London (southbound). In the meantime all of those LNER trains are replaced by Hitachi class 800 Azuma.
Photo Date:  5/17/2019  Upload Date: 1/7/2020 10:34:16 AM
Location:  Edinburgh, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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 Tour around Europe - part 7 Scotland
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 7 Scotland
Description:  Freightliner inherited 10 Class 90/1 locos, numbered 90041-50 all leased from Porterbrook. These have since been returned to their original Class 90/0 configuration. Freightliner Group (a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming) is a rail freight and logistics company, formed in the United Kingdom in 1995, and now having expanded into Australia, The Netherlands and Poland.
Photo Date:  5/17/2019  Upload Date: 1/7/2020 10:34:18 AM
Location:  Edinburgh, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  FREIGHTLIN 90(UNKNOWN)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
 Tour around Europe - part 7 Scotland
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 7 Scotland
Description:  The Class 380 Desiro is a type of EMU train that operates on the national railway network in Scotland. Abellio ScotRail is operating services under the name ScotRail. It is the Dutch-owned national train operating company of Scotland.
Photo Date:  5/17/2019  Upload Date: 1/7/2020 10:34:24 AM
Location:  Edinburgh, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SCOTRAIL 380(UNKNOWN)
Views:  119   Comments: 0
 Tour around Europe - part 7 Scotland
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 7 Scotland
Description:  ScotRail class 158 on its 4 hours trip from Inverness to Wick (the north-eastern coast of Scotland). The nearby Kinbrace station serves a small village in Sutherland in the Highland council area of Scotland.
Photo Date:  5/22/2019  Upload Date: 1/7/2020 10:34:21 AM
Location:  Kinbrace, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SCOTRAIL 158(UNKNOWN)
Views:  127   Comments: 1
 Tour around Europe - part 7 Scotland
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 7 Scotland
Description:  The British Rail Class 158 Express Sprinter is a DMU, built between 1989 and 1992 by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) at its Derby Litchurch Lane Works. ScotRail operates it between Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh. This is a village, located around 55 miles / 90 km west-southwest of Inverness.
Photo Date:  5/25/2019  Upload Date: 1/7/2020 10:34:11 AM
Location:  Kyle-Of-Lochalsh,Scotland, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SCOTRAIL 158(UNKNOWN)
Views:  126   Comments: 0
 Tour around Europe - part 7 Scotland
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 7 Scotland
Description:  Special train of Belmond Royal Scotsman heads towards Kyle of Lochaish. GB Railfreight has taken over the contract to operate the Belmond Royal Scotsman from West Coast Railways and has repainted its Class 66 locomotives 66746 in a corresponding livery.
Photo Date:  5/29/2019  Upload Date: 1/7/2020 10:34:14 AM
Location:  Strathcarron, UK
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  GBRF 66(UNKNOWN)
Views:  93   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 8 Switzerland
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 8 Switzerland
Description:  This old industry engine found a "lover" who saved her life and parked her at his logistic company location.
Photo Date:  2/13/2019  Upload Date: 1/8/2020 10:39:52 AM
Location:  Widnau, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Tour around Europe - part 8 Switzerland
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 8 Switzerland
Description:  Class BDeh 3/6 low floor EMU of the AB Appenzeller Bahnen (Railway of Appenzell) runs on the line Rorschach-Heiden, a 5.6 km / 3.5 miles long rack line close to the Lake of Constance.
Photo Date:  2/13/2019  Upload Date: 1/8/2020 10:39:55 AM
Location:  Rorschach, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  AB BDEH3/6(UNKNOWN)
Views:  166   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 8 Switzerland
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 8 Switzerland
Description:  Out of 89 built SBB Class 620, Bo’Bo’Bo’, some 30 units are modified and rewired for the next twenty years of service and got a new coating. Built 1975–1980 many of the 7850 kW-Re 6/6 are scrapped already.
Photo Date:  2/19/2019  Upload Date: 1/8/2020 10:40:01 AM
Location:  Erlen, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB 620(UNKNOWN)
Views:  162   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 8 Switzerland
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 8 Switzerland
Description:  Hybrid Class 923 shunter is waiting for its next assignment. Next to it a Re 420 with automatic coupling for tests in the wagon load operation.
Photo Date:  4/2/2019  Upload Date: 1/8/2020 10:40:06 AM
Location:  Gossau, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBBC 923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  144   Comments: 0
Tour around Europe - part 8 Switzerland
Title:  Tour around Europe - part 8 Switzerland
Description:  The class Re 4/4II series were the most common electric locomotives of the Swiss Federal Railways. The first batch, with one pantograph, were built 1967 and are still running after 53 years of service. But their lifecycle comes to an end and more and more go to the scrapyard.
Photo Date:  11/11/2019  Upload Date: 1/8/2020 10:39:49 AM
Location:  Zurich, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB Re4/4(UNKNOWN)
Views:  143   Comments: 0


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