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This article is based upon the ‘Indian Magic’ Tour organised by Darjeeling Tours in January 2024. It also draws on comparisons with my only previous trip to India in the autumn of 1986. Indian Railways in 1986 was a mixture of Broad, Metre & Narrow G

This article updates and adds to the information previously published in Locomotives International 142 following a visit to the country in early September 2023, during which we were fortunate to be able to visit six surviving peat railways. Latvia is

All photographs by the Author on 28th / 29th October 2023. ■

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The Rio Turbio Railway or Ramal Ferro Industrial de Río Turbio (RFIRT) was a 255 km (158 mi) 750 mm gauge railway which was built in the early 1950s, crossing Patagonia in order to haul coal from Argentina's only coal mine at Rio Turbio to the port o

The day started by being picked up by coach at 06.35 from the Pease Pottage Services on the M23 and then travelling to the Channel Tunnel to go to Calais. From the back of Calais we took the E15/A26 route south to junction 4 where we went cross count

Steam locomotive operations will be revived in West Malaysia after a hiatus of over 30 years. Great Leisure Heritage Rail (GLHR), a company owned by DS Rail Mobility, a local locomotive manufacturing company, is embarking on a massive undertaking: th

Having long followed the export of ex-BR class 86, 87 and 92 electric locomotives and recently inspired by Chris Bailey’s “Railways of Bulgaria” (incidentally published by Mainline & Maritime) I had been looking for an opportunity to visit Bulgaria.

In May 1998 I chased the Railway Touring Company's specials around Sardinia for a week. We travelled with the group from Gatwick to Olbia and back, and rented a brand new white (!) Renault 1800 for the week. If Avis had known what was in store, I wou