Last week at #Kraków 🇵🇱 Glówny station: this is a largely unrefurbished #EN57 unit, formerly operated by #PKP and seen here displaying the #Polregio livery. These trainsets were (or still are) nicknamed #kibel (for loo 🚽…) by Polish railfans. The refurbished units of the class are dubbed #turbokibel.

The Norwegian #NSB 🇳🇴 railcar BM91.02 is seen here at the #Trondheim workshops. Quite a design classic. Photo taken in spring 2005 while I was touring the region.

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows. “Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”

"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” Happy #MLK Day to all who honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., to all who stand up for justice and equality. Dr. King, 1929 - 1968, was a civil rights activist and the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

#Zurich🇨🇭#Airport has got its own railway station, conveniently located right underneath the terminal building. On my photo, taken in April 2016, we see a train bound for northeastern #Switzerland which makes it first station stop here after departing from Zurich HB. It’s hauled by an #SBB Re 4/4 II.

Going through pictures taken earlier this week. This is #EuroCity 213 “Comenius” from #Bohumín 🇨🇿, with a through car from #Prague, to #Kraków 🇵🇱. The train is hauled by a #ČD #Siemens #ES64U4-type Class 1216 #Taurus electric. And there’s the Czech #DiningCar where I enjoy a freshly cooked pork roast.

A visit to #Auschwitz, almost unbearable. The abyss of humanity. #NeverForget #Neveragain @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

#EuroCity #206 “Porta Moravica” from #Vienna 🇦🇹 to #Kraków 🇵🇱 via #Ostrava 🇨🇿 has got something for the #DiningCar buffs: meals are freshly cooked on board the Czech diner, a rare feature at times when micro-waved food has become common practice. I really enjoyed my Schnitzel prepared by a great chef!

Good morning! A very international start into the day, with this freshly cooked breakfast (almost a full English 🍳☕️) in the Czech 🇨🇿 #ČD #DiningCar on #EuroCity #206 “Porta Moravica” to #Kraków Gł 🇵🇱. I boarded the train at #Wien 🇦🇹 Hbf.

Good morning from #Vienna! Breakfast ☕️ 🥐 is being served by the lovely sleeping car attendant on board the #ÖBB 🇦🇹 #nightjet, right in time before an early morning (and on-time) arrival at #Wien Hauptbahnhof.

Hello from the #ÖBB 🇦🇹 #nightjet 447 from #Feldkirch to #Vienna. This is a #DaNi type, last generation night train. It also includes an overnight car-carrying service, yet there are only a handful of vehicles to be unloaded at Vienna tomorrow morning. Well, it’s a mid-week off-peak running after all.

A picture taken just outside #Villach 🇦🇹 Hbf in the early 2000s: this should be a #EuroCity train bound for #Ljubljana 🇸🇮, which is seen here crossing the #Drau #Drava river bridge. An #ÖBB Class 1044 electric is hauling the short consist of just two #Slovenian #SŽ cars.

A visit to #TEC #Charleroi 🇧🇪 and the suburban #tram line to #Anderlues on a wintry day in early 2013. The wonderful staff at the tram depot even took a type 6100 tramcar, still liveried in its original #SNCV #Hainaut colours, out from the shed in order to allow for a photo being taken.

#Basel🇨🇭#Jura today. (We went for a walk, not for a bike ride.)

#RhB🇨🇭#Chur, one morning in August 1999: these are two of the narrow gauge tracks of the station. The train on the left is for Disentis, hauled by a Rhaetische Bahn Class Ge 4/4 II electric from 1973. The one on the right, behind a Ge 4/4 III, built in 1994, is for St. Moritz, via the Albula line.

A picture taken at Villa S. Giovanni 🇮🇹 in October 2017: an #FS #Trenitalia #InterCity, hauled by a Class E.402B electric is ready to make its early morning departure. This is, most likely, a Reggio Calabria to Roma Termini service.

#Nürnberg 🇩🇪 yard in September 2010, a picture taken between two trains: this is a #DB #DeutscheBahn Class 614 diesel multiple unit. The class was built in the early 1970s. The unit on the photo displays their original #Popfarben livery, probably in view of its preservation as museum stock.

A picture taken in early September 1989: an #ÖBB 🇦🇹 Class 2043 diesel is seen here approaching Warmbad #Villach, hauling a consist of “Schlieren” coaches. This is a #Gailtalbahn local with destination Hermagor and Kötschach-Mauthen.

Posted on 6 January 2021. Five years ago today. And yet, I still believe, dear friends: this is not who you are.

A scene from rural #Austria 🇦🇹 in the mid 1980s. A seemingly quiet country road, a wayside shrine right by the mighty elm. Yet, the place, just east of #Innsbruck, is part of Austria’s main east-west corridor. The train on the photo is #ÖBB 🇦🇹 Express #163 “Dachstein” on its way to Graz.

Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz survivor who dedicated her life to speaking out against prejudice and to preserving the legacy of her stepsister, Anne Frank, died on Saturday in London at 96.

#Bertrix 🇧🇪: two #SNCB #NMBS Class #AR41 railcars are seen here, sitting on tracks 1 and 2. I took this picture in April 2002, before this section of the “Athus-Meuse” line across the #Ardennes, line number 165, was electrified at 25kV AC.

#Salerno 🇮🇹 in April 2012: an #FS #Trenitalia ALn 668.1800 railcar, built in the early 1970s, and a #Minuetto unit from the early 2000s, are awaiting further duties. Both are seen here displaying the #XMPR livery.

#Vienna 🇦🇹, early 2000s: a photo taken at “Südbahnhof Ostseite”. A Class 754 diesel of the Slovak Railways is being coupled onto a rake of equally Slovak cars in view of a departure for #Bratislava 🇸🇰 via #Marchegg. The site, now home to the #Hauptbahnhof, has undergone a substantial transformation.

Alp Grüm🇨🇭on the #Bernina line in August 2011. Picture of an #RhB museum special: locomotive no. 182, nicknamed “Bernina Crocodile”, built 1928, is hauling two Pullman carriages. This #UNESCO world heritage line, reaching above 2,000 metres a.s.l., is said to be Europe’s highest railway crossing.

I want to share this with you because this is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen: this is Carol of The Bells - we call it Shchedryk - performed by Ukrainian military and a veteran in Kyiv main railway station . But I must warn you: it will break your heart. And then, it will heal it again.

A photo taken yesterday while stopping for a break along the #Centovalli 🇨🇭 narrow gauge line: this is an R70 local bound for #Locarno, worked by one of the new #Stadler units.

Abgebrannter Kältebus in Berlin: Deutsche Bahn Stiftung spendet 70.000 Euro an die Berliner Stadtmission zur Finanzierung eines neuen Fahrzeugs. www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/I...

S. Maria Maggiore on the #Centovalli🇨🇭#Vigezzina 🇮🇹 line earlier today: this is the #Domodossola to #Re afternoon local, worked by an 1950s ABe8/8 unit. The sunlit summits of the Monte Rosa mountains can be seen in the distance.

When travelling on the #Swiss🇨🇭#RhB metre-gauge network in the early 2000s, I came across this rather extraordinary vehicle, registered as WR 3816/3817, and seen here bound for #Disentis. It was composed of two cars coupled together permanently and forming Europe’s longest #DiningCar as they said.

Aging carriages, high costs and reluctant incumbents have choked off the night-train revival — even as passengers clamor for more.

The #ÖBB 🇦🇹 “Wiener Schnellbahn” Class 4030.200 museum unit is seen here on the occasion of a railfan tour in and around #Vienna. Picture taken in April 2005. The unit’s driving trailer (cab-car) 6030.203 is leading.

#Salzburg 🇦🇹 in March 2002: a #DB 🇩🇪 regional train, from and to #Munich, is seen here, operated by a Class 111 electric, in push-pull mode. The loco is displaying the S-Bahn #Produktfarben livery.

A wintry day at #Kleinreifling 🇦🇹 in the early 2000s with the #ÖBB #Pflatsch logo still very much present, on the Class 1x16 #Taurus electric and on the #Schlieren-type cars.

Christ is born! Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and a wonderful time to everyone!

Going through that box filled with childhood stuff. It, i.a., contains #ÖBB 🇦🇹 cardboard tickets like this one, St. Ruprecht bei #Villach to #Sattendorf, stamped in August 1972. Nine Austrian Schillings the round trip for an adult, my auntie. We often went to lake #Ossiachersee for an afternoon swim.

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Going through pictures taken on the #Swiss🇨🇭#RhB Rhaetische Bahn network in the early 2000s. There’s for instance this #RhB #DiningCar number #WR3815, metre-gauge and able to travel on the rack and pinion section on the #FO #Oberalp Pass. The train is the “Glacier Express”.

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Europe’s holiday wish? More speed, more options, more time for YOU. While many are winding down, Europe is gearing up: a major high-speed rail plan is set to transform travel by 2040. Here’s what’s coming ↓

Ospizio Bernina, early 2000s: a consist led by two Rhaetische Bahn #RhB🇨🇭#ABe4/4 railcars has just arrived from St. Moritz. These vehicles, originally built in 1908 and re-modelled in the 1940s, were almost 100 years old when I took the photo. And it wasn’t a museum train, just an ordinary working.

#Innsbruck 🇦🇹 Hbf, early on a Saturday morning during the winter season: in the mid-1980s a special moment for the local railfan. A number of trains for holiday makers heading to the ski resorts would pass through, like this one in full DB “ozenblau-beige”, hauled by a Class E10 #Bügelfalte electric.

#EuroCity #31 “Allegro Johann Strauss” from #Vienna 🇦🇹 has just arrived at #Venezia S. Lucia 🇮🇹 station, hauled by an #FS #Trenitalia #E402 “prototipo” electric from #Tarvisio onwards. Photo taken in early September 2005.

#Radstadt 🇦🇹 station on the #Graz to #Salzburg line: a place full of old railway charm when I took this photo in June 2013. (And it seems it still is.) Low-level platforms with “direct” access across adjacent tracks. The railfan’s delight, yet a nightmare for passengers with reduced mobility.

A picture taken in March 2016: this is the #Milan 🇮🇹 to #Paris 🇫🇷 #TGV, making a stop at #Oulx (or Oulx-Cesana-Claviere-Sestriere in case long station names are your thing). It’s on the eastern ramp of the Mont-Cenis line and the train is a “tricourant” TGV Réseau, equipped for operations into Italy.

A picture taken in April 2011 at #Torino 🇮🇹 P.N., if I remember well. This is an #FS Class E.656 six-axle electric, nicknamed #Caimano (🐊) by Italian railfans. E656.607 makes an impeccable appearance and still displays her beautiful original livery from the 1980s - a rare sight in 2011.

A photo taken at #Düsseldorf 🇩🇪 Hbf in April 2007: a #DB Class 120 is hauling an #InterCity train.

Happy #Hanukkah to all who celebrate. Hanukkah comes with a very powerful message: light will win over darkness, hope over despair, courage over fear. And: you are not alone.

A short ride on the “Treni Turistici Italiani” Christmas Market special on its return trip from #Munich 🇩🇪 to #Rome 🇮🇹 via #Innsbruck 🇦🇹. In the afternoon, there’s a bar service in the #DiningCar. It’s in the hands of a fantastic crew. Later on, they will serve dinner in the car’s restaurant section.