Recent uploads (Overseas)

CFR no. 40.007 is one of seven 2-8-2 cog tanks built by Wiener Lokomotivfabriks, AG at Floridsdorf (Austria) in 1908 and uses the Abt rack system. In this picture no. 40.007 is depicted en route from Subcetate to Portile de Fier. This entire but small system was operational until 1978 and several of this class still exist but some are in a parlous state apparently. [Mike Morant collection]

NS - Nederlandsche Spoorwegen - Co-Co lectric locomotive no. 1307 in Berlin Blue livery photographed at Rotterdam CS In September 1981. [Mike Morant collection]

Angolan National Railway (CFA) 151 class 4-8-0 no. 156 at Zenza on 27/6/74. Built by henschel in 1923 with works no. 19865, no. 156 was last recorded as being in a line of dumped locomotives at Catete, Luanda in 2017. [Mike Morant collection]

The small engine shed at Kappeln on the metre gauge Flensburger Kreisbahn in North Schleswig-Holstein taken in 1949. This line from Flensburg to Kappeln closed on 10/8/1952. [J. H. Venn / Mike Morant collection]

National Railway of Chile - EFE - 2-6-0 no. 627 at Osorno on 22/10/76. No. 627 was a 5' 6" gaugeloco built by Sociedad de Maestranzas y Galvan in 1913. [Mike Morant collection]

Peruvian Railways 'Andes' class 2-8-0 steam locomotive no. 206 was built by Beyer Peacock in 1937 and is depicted here in November 1985. [Mike Morant collection]

Peruvian Railways steam locomotive no. 122, a Baldwin built 2-8-2, photographed in November 1981. [Mike Morant collection]

An undated colour slide of Austrian 760mm gauge industrial steam locomove Krauss 6788/1913 0-4-0T ( or 030t if preferred) named FLORIANA at Stahl Judenburg GmbH. This loco came here from Ostrowiecer Hochöfen und Werke and In 1979 it went to Österreichische Gesellschaft für Lokalbahnen, Hirschwang, for preservation. [Mike Morant collection]

RENFE Co-Co electric locomotive no. 7637 taken circa 1957 at an unspecified location. This class, the gauge apart, is identical to the SNCF CC7100 class and all bar the first 20 were built in Spain under licence from Alsthom the class lasted well and the last was withdrawn as recently as 2014. Two have been set aside for preservation. [John Feild / Mike Morant collection]

KNR (Korean National Railways) 2-8-2 no. 290 entering Pusan on 9/1/55 with a main line passenger service. Note the Pusan locomotive works on th right of the shot. [Mike Morant collection]

JNR (Japanese National Railways) steam locomotive D51 440 was a 2-8-2 and was one of 1,115 examples of this design of mikadopacific built between 1936 and 1951 according to Wikipedia. This shot depicts no. 440 leaving Kure with a down freight after waiting for the arrival of an up passenger train from hiroshima on 30/5/55. Amazingly, 170 examples of this class of 2-8-2 are preserved. [Mike Morant collection]

JNR (Japanese National Railways) steam locomotive no. C62 15 was a 4-6-4 and was one of 49 examples of this design of hudson built in 1948/9 according to Wikipedia. This shot was taken on 25/6/55 and depicts the 2.04 p.m. Tokyo to Hakata express departing from Kure. A member of this class holds the world speed record for a narrow gauge steam loco by achieving 80 mph. [Mike Morant collection]

CFB   - Benguela Railway -    11th class 4-8-2 no. 403, a 1951 NBL product with works no. NBL 26961, departs from Benguela with a train bound for Lobito on 21/9/74. [Mike Morant collection]

CFB   - Benguela Railway -    11th class 4-8-2 no. 4032 a 1951 NBL product with works no. NBL 26960, at Benguela. [P. B. Whitehouse / Mike Morant collection]

NS   - Nederlandsche Spoorwegen -   1100 class Bo-Bo electric locomotive no. 1124 in blue livery prepares for departure from Hoek van Holland on an unspecified date in 1972. [Mike Morant collection]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but few would dispute that this magnificent locomotive exudes both elegance and power. The design originated with the CdF du Nord's last CME, Marc de Caso, before the formation of the SNCF and four examples of this 4-6-4 four cylinder compund classwere built with the depicted 232 S 004 being the final example entering service with SNCF in 1941. This good looking 4.000 HP engine is shown in its final form. The lower parts of the skirts have been removed, the front part too and the valve gear with rotary cams and counterbalance eccentric rod (bielle saumon) has been replaced by a Walschaerts gear acting on swinging cams similar to the Dabeg of the Chapelon Pacifics. This undocumented portrait was probably taken at Gare du Nord in Paris. 232 S 004 was withdrawn in 1961. [Mike Morant collection]

Hohenzollern 2610/1910 0-4-0T no. 12 ARBED at Esch Belval steelworks near Esch-sur-Alzette in Luxembourg on 14/9/72. [Mike Morant collection]

SKGLB   Salzkammergut Lokalbahn -    railbus no. 672, shown here at Mondsee on 24/8/56, was built in 1928 from either an 1894 'farm car' as it is decribed on one web site or from an emperor's coach on another. This veicle was coloquially known as the Mondsee Cow. The SKGLB was a 760mm gauge system, opened in 1890, that connected Salzburg with Bad Ischl. It was closed in its entirety in October 1957 and little remains to be seen of it although there is a dedicated museum at Mondsee. [Mike Morant collection]

Photogtaphed at Berlin Ost on 26/5/73 is this CCCP identification panel but what, exactly, does it signify? [Mike Morant collection]