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Type 0 and 100 series shinkansen cars can be seen under maintenance at JR Tokai’s workshops at Hamamatsu while an open day was taking place . The original 0 series cars started operation in...
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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 It shows the former Kintetsu track, which has been replaced by a double track tunnel for higher speeds.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...