Euro Gunzel

I’ve written a lot in the past about trains and trams switching from left to right hand running across Europe, but here is a new one: high-speed trains switching sides when crossing the border between France and Spain.

I’ve written about a few odd track layouts on European tram networks before, but this is something difference – a quadruple track tramway in the Czech city of Brno.

Germany has a long long history of both full sized and model railways, and at a number of railway stations across the country they combine the two with coin operated modellerlebniswelten.

In the Germany city of Stuttgart their trams have an interesting feature – bicycle trailers!

Another recent online find that caught my eye was a photo of a train headed along a street in Poland – so where was it taken, and why was a train headed along there?

The other day an advertisement for a strange hotel caught my eye – “Crane Hotel Faralda” in the port city of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

When I travelled by trains across Russia back in the early-2010s, the usual livery on the passenger trains I saw was the plain grey of the Russian Railways, with the «РЖД» logo in red across the side.

DJs are known for spinning tunes on a turntable – but what if they themselves were being spun around on a turntable themselves?

This photo of a Deutsche Bahn train running through on tracks almost covered by floodwater is quite extraordinary, but when I looked closer it at I found something else I had never seen before – Y-shaped railway sleepers.

Over the years there have been many examples of former railway lines being turned into roads.