Travel

Chinese cabbage anyone?

On the ferry from Cais do Sodre Lisbon to Cacilhas in Almada across the Tejo River.

Ex-LMS rebuilt Royal Scot 4-6-0 46115 Scots Guardsman with 1T53, the 15.12 Carlisle to Lancaster Fellsman steam special, has only a few more yards to go before the summit at Ais Gill, 1169 ft (350 m) ASL.

SNCF 141TB 2-8-2T 463 departs Paris Gare de la Bastille station with cylinder cocks wide open. Bastille was the terminus of the 54.1 km long line to Vincennes and Verneuil-l'Étang. This was my first visit to Paris or France. No sign of any greenery in those days but today the Promenade Plantée is a major tourist site bustling with walkers who can follow the line eastwards for 4.5km. The station itself is the site of l'Opera de la Bastille. Interestingly when I lived in Paris in the 1980s I told my french co-workers that there had been a station here until 1969 & I was not believed at first! "C'est pas vrai"!!

We saw these Icelandic horses being herded near Armannsfell alongside Route 52 which is a well graded dirt road and approaches the Langjokull (Long Glacier) before turning west to Borganes.

Great Western engines pass on the Minehead branch. On the left, arriving from Bishops Lydeard, and heading for Minehead is Hall 4-6-0 4936 Kinlet Hall. While waiting for the single line to clear is Manor 4-6-0 7828 Odney Manor.

As part of the commemoration of 150 years of railways in France SNCF organised a steam special from Paris Gare Saint-Lazare to St. Germain en Laye pulled by État 4-6-2 231 G 558. It is seen here beneath the fine trainshed roof by the buffer stops.

Shadows in the night.

Milan electric tramway Series 1500 tram 1754 downtown picking up passengers on route 33 at the lights by Corso Buenes Aries. This classic vehicle was built by Officine Meccaniche di Reggio Emilia in the late 1920s.