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In July 2025, my wife and I made a short visit to Kraków Old Town in Poland. I want to share some photographs I took during our stay. I was up and about with my camera between 6 and 7 a.m. to take advantage of the better light suitable for photography.
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My wife and I visited the Bluebell Railway on Friday, 18 July 2025. While it was a very hot day at 28 degrees Celsius, the sun was not always out, as shown in some of the photographs. We started our journey at Sheffield Park Station.
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Wrocław Świebodzki Station is one of the attractions that you will not find in regular travel guides to Wrocław, Poland. I would classify this as one of Wrocław’s secret attractions, delighting those seeking abandoned railway infrastructure.
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The Bognor Regis semaphore signals were still working on 9 August 2024, and the Littlehampton semaphore signals were still working on 12 August 2024.
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My wife and I recently visited the Slovenian Railway Museum in Ljubljana. This was a much-anticipated visit, one of many highlights during our stay in Ljubljana.
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This post is about the last Kriegslok war locomotives in commercial, but not in heritage service. These locomotives still haul coal wagons at coal mines in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Updated 15 July 2025.
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Updated 23 October 2024. The Polish colony in Harbin transformed a small fishing village in Manchuria into a thriving city of significant commercial importance. It is estimated that at the colony’s peak, up to 10,000 Poles lived there.
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Southern Railway offers a live departure service, which indicates the likelihood of being able to be seated.
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Can you imagine catching a train in London and then getting off the same train in Kraków, Poland?
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D1 class tank engine Worthing and its service during the existence of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway.
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Refugee trains out of Ukraine and the people who keep them running is a shortened version of an article published in The Guardian Newspaper.
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West Grinstead Train Station has the remains of railway infrastructure from a bygone era, which can still be seen.
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