Having heard via the grapevine, while I was away in India, that MAV Nostalgia were running a charter train on Tuesday 22nd December, featuring all 6 Nohabs that remained in service, a rather impromptu trip to Budapest for Christmas resulted after it actually seemed like a better idea to stay on after the tour as Read the Rest…
With a hand written piece of paper showing everything I want to do in India, I found myself not planning just this trip but also my early 2016 trip at the same time as it became easier to cut and paste between two separate three week trips than it did to try and make what Read the Rest…
Having done the PTG Southern Greece Alco Tour, as per the previous year, I planned to head out of Bulgaria and into Romania to spend a few days before flying home. There wasn’t much of plan really and initially we were going to spend a day in Iasi followed by a day in Targu Mures Read the Rest…
It was a welcome trip and very eagerly anticipated return to Greece to get some more MLW’s in; especially after the PTG trip in 2014 had been so good. As in 2014 the tour started in Sofia, Bulgaria, as OSE have no fresh air stock left to allow it to run solely in Greece so Read the Rest…
Travelling round Eastern Europe had been a lot easier than I’d expected when doing it for the first time in 2014 so a return trip was always on the cards; and in a similar fashion to the trip the previous year, Eastern Europe was used as a gateway to get into Greece for the PTG Read the Rest…
Having enjoyed my day out travelling on the Goppenstein – Kandersteg car transporter trains in the summer of 2014 I decided that another day of riding a bike about on car trains was something I’d fancy doing so when in Switzerland early in 2015 I picked up a BLS leaflet, with the car train gen Read the Rest…
Having noticed that the Gävle Railway Museum were having an open weekend to celebrate what they termed a “big electric anniversary”, over the weekend of 12th & 13th September, I decided I’d like to have a trip across and see what all the fuss was about. There were 6 different heritage electrics rostered to work Read the Rest…
Having scoured the internet to find some decently priced flights for a short trip to Europe I was surprised myself when I ended up booking flights from Doncaster to Dublin! After all this was an airport I’d never used before and a country, bizarrely, that I’d never been to! Flights Booked through Aer Lingus EI3413 Read the Rest…
When planning this trip in my head the only way I wanted to enter Scandinavia was by the train ferry from Berlin to Malmo yet strangely the window of opportunity is quite limited as the Snälltåget train only runs from late June until the first week in August! Once in Sweden there wasn’t really anything Read the Rest…
With a big trip to Scandinavia coming up, starting in Berlin, what better way to get there than by flying out to Poland having a day in Warsaw, where I’d never been, then overnight to Bratislava for a day there then overnight to Dresden for half a day there before meeting my wife in Berlin; Read the Rest…
This trip was supposed to be a trip to see the Aletsch Glacier, based in Brig, at a warmer time of year. What a disaster that idea turned out to be when I checked the cable car timings the night before we set off and found them to be closed throughout May for maintenance! To Read the Rest…
As an introduction what more can I say; this was my honeymoon! During which we planned to visit Austria (Salzburg, Vienna & Graz), Slovenia (Ljubljana, Bled & Postojna) and finish up in Zagreb, Croatia; the latter being a cheaper and better place to fly home from more than anything else. Of course there would be Read the Rest…
Originally this trip plan was hatched to start in Delhi and head north to cover Udhampur; before it was electrified, making it hard to get to Udhampur by Alco. While I was up that way it made sense to pick up some bits of track that as I went along, the bonus bit being the Read the Rest…
With bits of what I wanted to do written down on scraps of paper it took some sorting out to fit it all in and inevitably some bits had to be left out as there just wasn’t time to cram it all in. The trip ultimately became a trek across northern India, all the way Read the Rest…
This trip had a been very last minute yet I’d still managed to get decent flights really. The only reason for the trip was to cover the RhB’s 100th anniversary of the Chur to Arosa line; for which a special timetable had been put together and issued about 3 weeks before the event. Unfortunately the Read the Rest…
The opportunity to sample some good old Greek Alco thrash wasn’t one I could pass up, especially as I didn’t need any leave to do it. It turned out to be the only Alco hauled train that ran on the closed Peloponnese network during 2014 but was unfortunately marred by events that unfolded on the Read the Rest…
This is an extract from a multi-country report to read the full report use the following link: Multi Trip (Bulgaria – Serbia – Montenegro – Macedonia – Greece – Turkey – Bulgaria – Romania) September 2014 This trip took a fair bit of putting together and was based around doing two days of the PTG Read the Rest…
This is an extract from a multi-country report to read the full report use the following link: Multi Trip (Bulgaria – Serbia – Montenegro – Macedonia – Greece – Turkey – Bulgaria – Romania) September 2014 As the Greece bit of this trip included the PTG tour starting and finishing in Bulgaria and it going Read the Rest…
This is an extract from a multi-country report to read the full report use the following link: Multi Trip (Bulgaria – Serbia – Montenegro – Macedonia – Greece – Turkey – Bulgaria – Romania) September 2014 This trip took a fair bit of putting together and was based around doing two days of the PTG Read the Rest…
This is an extract from a multi-country report to read the full report use the following link: Multi Trip (Bulgaria – Serbia – Montenegro – Macedonia – Greece – Turkey – Bulgaria – Romania) September 2014 This trip took a fair bit of putting together and was based around doing two days of the PTG Read the Rest…