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A Tobu Railway 'Spacia' Limited Express train approaching Tobu's terminal at Asakusa, Tokyo. The signals are of a new type using LEDs for the signal lights. Please note that these new signals do not...
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A 2'6" (762 mm) gauge electric locomotive of the Kurobe Canyon Railway at its line
end Keyakidaira station deep in a mountain. Its origin dates back to an
industrial railway built in 1926 to transport materials...
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This month there's a contrast between new an old.
Fukui Railway locomotive, at Nishi-Takefu, 21. Sept. 2003.
Locos like this are still used for shunting MU cars around the workshops of the many private railways of...
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An old ex-JNR freight car, presumably a Wamu type, now standing at Yubari (Hokkaido) now used as a storage shed. 11. September 2004
Cassiopeia sleeper at Ueno station, ready to leave for Sapporo. The photo...
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This month we will have a look at a few ferry operations that have a link with Meitetsu, Nagoya's major private railway
Isewan Ferry at Morozaki. Isewan operates two ferry routes, between Toba and
Morozaki (southern...
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This is an interesting shot, I think. It shows the former Kintetsu track, which has been replaced by a double track tunnel for higher speeds. Kintetsu Shima Line (Toba to Kashikojima), photo taken south...
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A Joban Line E231 series EMU rounds the curve to pass underneath the Keisei Railway just after Nippori station in Tokyo with a local service to Toride. The tracks behind the train are the...
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Meitetsu’s tram 591 lays over at its Mino terminus north east of Gifu on 12th August 1995. Services to Mino ended on 1st April 1999 when services were cut back to Seki. 591 later...