Portal:Trains/Selected picture/2015 archive
This is an archive of images that have appeared in the Selected picture section of Portal:Trains in 2015.
- Week 1
- December 28, 2014 - January 3
NR class locomotive no. NR18, in a yellow Indian Pacific livery, leads an eastbound Indian Pacific towards the Toodyay Road level crossing in Stratton, Western Australia, about 25 minutes after its departure from East Perth Terminal
Recently selected: CTA Holiday Train - DRG Class 01 main rods - SQM mine train
- Week 2
- January 4 - January 11
An ÖBB 1016 Taurus locomotive, built by Siemens pulls a passenger train between Rankweil and Götzis, Austria, in 2011.
Recently selected: Indian Pacific - CTA Holiday Train - DRG Class 01 main rods
- Week 3
- January 11 - January 18
A CrossCountry class 220 "Voyager" DEMU speeds through Nailsea and Backwell railway station on a May evening in 2012.
Recently selected: ÖBB Taurus locomotive - Indian Pacific - CTA Holiday Train
- Week 4
- January 18 - January 24
A Qishuyan DF11G locomotive pulls a passenger train through the suburbs of Guangzhou, China, in 2008
Recently selected: Nailsea and Backwell railway station - ÖBB Taurus locomotive - Indian Pacific
- Week 5
- January 25 - January 31
São Paulo Metro trains use the tracks at Luz Station, stopping at the platforms under the station's grand trainshed.
Recently selected: DF11G locomotive - Nailsea and Backwell railway station - ÖBB Taurus locomotive
- Week 6
- February 1 - February 7
A České dráhy (Czech Railways) 371 class electric locomotive leads a EuroCity train in Dresden, Germany, in March 2013.
Recently selected: Luz Station - DF11G locomotive - Nailsea and Backwell railway station
- Week 7
- February 8 - February 14
Conductors stand ready on the platform beside the Kunming-Lijiang train at Kunming station in 2012. Every passenger car on this service has its own conductor.
Recently selected: České dráhy EuroCity train - Luz Station - DF11G locomotive
- Week 8
- February 15 - February 21
Trains pass on the mainline next to the yard in České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic, on railway lines 194 and 196 in December 2010.
Recently selected: Train at Kunming station - České dráhy EuroCity train - Luz Station
- Week 9
- February 22 - February 28
An Eritrean Railway worker holds a green flag to indicate a properly aligned switch and a clear track for a train arriving at Damas station, Eritrea, in 2008.
Recently selected: trains at České Budějovice - Train at Kunming station - České dráhy EuroCity train
- Week 10
- March 1 - March 7
Two DMU trains stand near the Haapsalu, Estonia, railway station platform in 2012. When the station was built in 1906-07, the 216-metre long (708 ft 8 in) Haapsalu platform was the longest in Europe.
Recently selected: Eritrean Railway signalman - trains at České Budějovice - Train at Kunming station
- Week 11
- March 8 - March 14
A train on Paris Métro Line 6 descends a short hill approaching Pasteur station in February 2014.
Recently selected: Haapsalu station platform - Eritrean Railway signalman - trains at České Budějovice
- Week 12
- March 15 - March 21
The preserved Deutsche Reichsbahn Class 41 locomotive number 41 241 is readied for an excursion service at Essen Hauptbahnhof in 2007.
Recently selected: Paris Métro Line 6 - Haapsalu station platform - Eritrean Railway signalman
- Week 13
- March 22 - March 28
An OSE passenger train makes a station stop at Piraeus, Greece, in September 1990.
Recently selected: DRB 41 241 at Essen - Paris Métro Line 6 - Haapsalu station platform
- Week 14
- March 29 - April 4
Rails are bent at extreme angles in the aftermath of the 7.5 Mw 1976 earthquake in Guatemala.
Recently selected: OSE passenger train - DRB 41 241 at Essen - Paris Métro Line 6
- Week 15
- April 5 - April 11
Passengers board and debark from trains at Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary. The station, built in the 1880s, is named due to its position as the most eastern ('keleti') of the city's rail stations, nearest Transylvania and the Balkans.
Recently selected: bent rails in Guatemala - OSE passenger train - DRB 41 241 at Essen
- Week 16
- April 12 - April 18
Three WCG2 electric locomotives pull an intercity train through mountainous territory in India in 2008.
Recently selected: Keleti station trainshed - bent rails in Guatemala - OSE passenger train
- Week 17
- April 19 - April 25
Train number CC 2061326 "DIPO INDUK YK" departs Tugu railway station in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, passing the gatekeeper station for the manually protected level crossing in February 2015.
Recently selected: Indian Railways WCG2 locomotives - Keleti station trainshed - bent rails in Guatemala
- Week 18
- April 26 - May 2
Two trains approach Trinidad metro station on the Santiago Metro, Chile, in 2006.
Recently selected: Tugu railway station - Indian Railways WCG2 locomotives - Keleti station trainshed
- Week 19
- May 3 - May 9
In the aftermath of the Granville-Paris Express wreck at Gare Montparnasse on October 22, 1895, the train's locomotive rests on its smokebox after crashing through the wall of the station onto the street below.
Recently selected: Trinidad metro station - Tugu railway station - Indian Railways WCG2 locomotives
- Week 20
- May 10 - May 16
A maintenance of way worker operates a spiker to finish tie replacement work on the BNSF Railway mainline through Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in 2004.
Recently selected: Gare Montparnasse wreck of 1895 - Trinidad metro station - Tugu railway station
- Week 21
- May 17 - May 23
The portal of the 6,327.4-metre long (3.9 mi) Bohinj Tunnel, near Bohinjska Bistrica, Slovenia, on the Bohinj Railway, had a plaque mounted on it in 2006 to commemorate the centenary of its construction.
Recently selected: spiker - Gare Montparnasse wreck of 1895 - Trinidad metro station
- Week 22
- May 24 - May 30
A JR East 205-600 series 4-car EMU traverses the Nikkō Line in 2013.
Recently selected: Bohinj Tunnel - spiker - Gare Montparnasse wreck of 1895
- Week 23
- May 31 - June 6
Train 22, the Kyzylorda - Semipalatinsk passenger train, is hauled by a Kazakhstan Temir Zholy 2TE10U diesel locomotive near Aynabulak, Kazakhstan, in 2012.
Recently selected: JR East Nikkō Line - Bohinj Tunnel - spiker
- Week 24
- June 7 - June 13
A ALn 772 class "Littorina" diesel railcar of the Italian Libya Railways awaits passengers at Tripoli Station in the 1950s.
Recently selected: KTZ passenger train - JR East Nikkō Line - Bohinj Tunnel
- Week 25
- June 14 - June 20
A Ferrosur train crosses a bridge in Veracruz, Mexico, in 2010
Recently selected: Tripoli Station - KTZ passenger train - JR East Nikkō Line
- Week 26
- June 21 - June 27
ONCF class DF 115 number 117, formerly SNCF class CC 72000 number 72085 and still carrying the SNCF Fret colors, pulls a passenger train near Taourirt, Morocco, on the way to Nador in 2010.
Recently selected: Ferrosur freight train - Tripoli Station - KTZ passenger train
- Week 27
- June 28 - July 4
A train of the Wengernalpbahn ascends the grade with the Elger Glacier in the background.
Recently selected: ONCF passenger train - Ferrosur freight train - Tripoli Station
- Week 28
- July 5 - July 11
An NSB class BM 69 DMU operating the Lokaltog Myrdal - Bergen is following the Langavatnet between Vieren and Ørneberget, Norway, in 2014.
Recently selected: Wengernalpbahn - ONCF passenger train - Ferrosur freight train
- Week 29
- July 12 - July 18
A Stadler GTW railcar crosses a bridge between Neuhausen am Rheinfall and Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 2011.
Recently selected: NSB passenger train - Wengernalpbahn - ONCF passenger train
- Week 30
- July 19 - July 25
An electric multiple unit train makes a station stop at Szczecin Główny railway station, Poland, in 2010. The station serves trains of PKP, Przewozy Regionalne and Deutsche Bahn.
Recently selected: Stadler GTW in Switzerland - NSB passenger train - Wengernalpbahn
- Week 31
- July 26 - August 1
Several steam locomotives, including one liveried for the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, await their next assignments in the ruins of a small roundhouse in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1866 after the end of the American Civil War.
Recently selected: Szczecin Główny railway station - Stadler GTW in Switzerland - NSB passenger train
- Week 32
- August 2 - August 8
An SBB Re 460 electric locomotive carrying an advertisement for Swiss recylcing firm VetroSwiss pulls an InterRegio train to Chur past the Walensee in 2008.
Recently selected: roundhouse ruins in Atlanta - Szczecin Główny railway station - Stadler GTW in Switzerland
- Week 33
- August 9 - August 15
Two preserved steam locomotives, a PKP class OKi 1 and a class Oki 2, both of 2-6-0T wheel arrangement, stand at the Museum of Industry and Railway in Lower Silesia in 2013.
Recently selected: SBB InterRegio train - roundhouse ruins in Atlanta - Szczecin Główny railway station
- Week 34
- August 16 - August 22
The Duke of Wellington's train is prepared for departure from Liverpool on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway on 15 September 1830, in a painting by an unknown artist.
Recently selected: preserved PKP steam locomotives - SBB InterRegio train - roundhouse ruins in Atlanta
- Week 35
- August 21 - August 29
A westbound Metra train passes under a signal bridge at West Chicago, Illinois, on the Union Pacific / West Line in 2006.
Recently selected: Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway - preserved PKP steam locomotives - SBB InterRegio train
- Week 36
- August 30 - September 5
A regional express RENFE 440 series train crosses the Jalón River near Embid de la Ribera, Zaragoza province, Aragón, Spain, in 2014.
Recently selected: Metra commuter train - Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway - preserved PKP steam locomotives
- Week 37
- September 6 - September 12
Chicago and North Western Railway switchman A.S. Gerdee takes a momentary break to pose for photographer Jack Delano at Proviso Yard in Chicago in 1943.
Recently selected: RENFE regional express - Metra commuter train - Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
- Week 38
- September 13 - September 19
Tracks fan out for access to both sides of the Stockholm metro's Vällingby depot.
Recently selected: switchman - RENFE regional express - Metra commuter train
- Week 39
- September 20 - September 26
Preserved SBB Be 6/8 III number 13302 pulls a special train between Hüntwangen-Wil and Zweidlen, Switzerland, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Weiacher Kies AG in 2012.
Recently selected: Vällingby subway depot - switchman - RENFE regional express
- Week 40
- September 27 - October 3
A passenger train makes a stop at Taichung Station in Taiwan sometime in the 1910s. The station opened in 1905.
Recently selected: Crocodile locomotive - Vällingby subway depot - switchman
- Week 41
- October 4 - October 10
A newly-constructed East African Railways 60 class Garratt locomotive is being unloaded at Mombasa, Kenya, circa 1953. The locomotive is seen here fitted with numberplate 5608, but it was renumbered 6002 at about the time it entered service.
Recently selected: Taichung Station - Crocodile locomotive - Vällingby subway depot
- Week 42
- October 11 - October 17
A Ukrainian Railways crane, number DGKu 3461, awaits its next assignment at Vinnytsia railway station in September 2014.
Recently selected: EAR 60 class - Taichung Station - Crocodile locomotive
- Week 43
- October 18 - October 24
A pair of GM class locomotives lead a freight Genesee & Wyoming Australia train in the Clare Valley, South Australia, in 2008.
Recently selected: Ukrainian Railways crane - EAR 60 class - Taichung Station
- Week 44
- October 25 - October 31
Railway workers finish two rail joints during the reconstruction of Neunkirchen station in Austria in Summer 2014. While a thermite pot burns on the right to weld two rails together, the profile of another nearby weld is being ground manually.
Recently selected: GM class locomotives - Ukrainian Railways crane - EAR 60 class
- Week 45
- November 1 - November 7
Northern Rail diesel multiple unit number 158842 departs Nottingham station headed for Leeds in 2009.
Recently selected: track welding workers - GM class locomotives - Ukrainian Railways crane
- Week 46
- November 8 - November 14
Grain cars, mostly boxcars in grain service in this photo, are unloaded into the transshipment facility at Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, in 1996. Churchill is the northern terminus of the Hudson Bay Railway and it is Canada's principal seaport on the Arctic Ocean.
Recently selected: Nottingham station - track welding workers - GM class locomotives
- Week 47
- November 15 - November 21
A CrossCountry class 220 "Voyager" DEMU heads south through Selly Oak railway station in Birmingham, England, passing a northbound CrossCountry HST set, in 2012.
Recently selected: grain trains at Churchill - Nottingham station - track welding workers
- Week 48
- November 22 - November 28
The heritage train "Ćiro" crosses the Beli Rzav river near Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 2012.
Recently selected: Selly Oak station - grain trains at Churchill - Nottingham station
- Week 49
- November 29 - December 5
Several types of ÖBB passenger trains await their next assignment in the yard at Landeck-Zams railway station, Austria, in February 2013.
Recently selected: heritage train in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Selly Oak station - grain trains at Churchill
- Week 50
- December 6 - December 12
Two China Railway freight trains meet on the Longhai Railway near Yuanlong, between Tianshui and Baoji, China, in August 2015. Both trains are hauled by HXD1 locomotives
Recently selected: Landeck-Zams station - heritage train in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Selly Oak station
- Week 51
- December 12 - December 19
A Medellín Metro train passes a storage track for disused Antioquia Railway trains at Bello, Antioquia, Colombia, in October 2007.
Recently selected: Longhai Railway - Landeck-Zams station - heritage train in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Week 52
- December 17 - December 26
Newly installed track sweeps around multiple S-curves in Motol, Czech Republic on September 16, 2010, one day before the Vozovna Motol – Sídliště Řepy, Prague, tram line is reopened.
Recently selected: Medellín Metro - Longhai Railway - Landeck-Zams station
- Week 53
- December 27 - January 2, 2016
Vestsjællands Lokalbaner Lynette and Lint DMUs undergo service in the workshop in Holbæk, Denmark, in 2008.
Recently selected: S-curved track - Medellín Metro - Longhai Railway