Morning mist at #Morteau (Doubs) 🇫🇷 station. The little town in the Jura hills near the Swiss border is known for watchmaking and its #SaucisseDeMorteau sausages (and for the railway line of course).
Picture taken in late summer 2004. #PastTrainTrips

#Morez (Jura) 🇫🇷, is a nice little town close to the Swiss🇨🇭border. In autumn 2004, when these photos were taken, the old-fashioned, charming train station has seen a variety of workings by the iconic (and meanwhile withdrawn) #SNCF class #X2800 Diesel units in their twilight years. #PastTrainTrips

#Budapest 🇭🇺 #Keleti station in September 2008. A #MÁV class 1047 #Siemens #Taurus is ready for an afternoon departure to #Vienna 🇦🇹.
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Frutigen🇨🇭on the #Lötschberg line. Northbound #Eurocity #Vauban, mainly composed of #SNCB #NMBS carriages and bound for Brussels 🇧🇪 via #Strasbourg 🇫🇷 and #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 is ready to depart.
Picture taken in the early 2000s.
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#Venezia Santa Lucia 🇮🇹 at dusk. A night train is ready to depart from platform 1. An #FS #Trenitalia Class E.402A electric is hauling the consist, with an E.444R “Tartaruga” in tow. A sleeping car is positioned right behind the locos.
Picture taken in spring 2005, if I remember well.
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The #Venice 🇮🇹 to #Vienna 🇦🇹 daytime Express #Gondoliere is seen here approaching #Villach in 1989. The colourful consist includes Italian and Austrian carriages - among them, on the day I’ve taken the picture, an #ÖBB couchette car (partly visible on the photo).
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#Luxembourg 🇱🇺 station: the 10:32 service, IR2431, for #Münster 🇩🇪 is ready to depart. The orient-red liveried #DB dual voltage class 181.2 loco will work the train along the #Mosel valley as far as #Koblenz. The carriages still retain the #InterRegio livery. Picture taken in March 2002.
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A #DB 🇩🇪 #E10 class 113 #Bügelfalte with a seasonal train from northern Germany to #Austria|n 🇦🇹 ski resorts. Picture taken in February 2002 at #Salzburg - before the station’s refurbishment. The loco (and the first carriage) still display the “orient red” livery.
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Another particularly #European 🇪🇺 train today: #Eurocity #Vauban, originally starting in Milan 🇮🇹, seen here at Saint-Louis 🇫🇷 on its way from Switzerland🇨🇭to Belgium 🇧🇪 via Strasbourg 🇫🇷 & Luxembourg 🇱🇺. The loco: #SNCF 🇫🇷, the coaches #SBB 🇨🇭 & #SNCB #NMBS 🇧🇪. Picture taken in February 2009. #PastTrainTrips

An #FS 🇮🇹 class #ALe601 unit, photographed at #Roma Termini in April 1983. Among the trains worked by these units: the #Rapido “Peloritano” composed of several sections, i.a. to and from #Palermo and #Siracusa, crossing the Strait of #Messina between #Sicily and the mainland by ferry.
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