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You are right, the shunter is a Y 6200. Nowadays, these machines are used on private industrial tracks or for tourism train. No one is anymore used by the SNCF.

Another thing. My hostel will be at Earl's Court. Is there a good spotting place near from there?

Ok thank you all. Do I need a special permission for the photos?

Hello every body. I will go back to London in three weeks and I will spend some tome on railway stations for some photos. I think I will go first to Clapham junction, but is there other place like this near london? Another point, do I need a special permission for taking photos...

Nice pictures. The Nord 3 638 is now back in France and belongs to the Ajecta railways society.

Let me present you two of the most famous French steam locomotives. First of all the 231 G 558, most known as "Sotteville's Princess". It belongs to the "Pacific Vapeur Club" near Rouen in Normandy. In this picture, it was in Sotteville depot, waiting for axle repair. The second is...

You will found what you're looking for here. http://www.metro-pole.net/expl/materiel/parc-metro.html M means engine with cab N means engine without cab A and AB mean coach For the MP 89 S means coach with cab Sp means coach without cab (automatic) N means engine without cab

I agree that the recent European locomotives aren't really smart, except for the Siemens Thaurus. Have you seen the brand new Alstom Prima 2, it looks better than Prima 1. Prima 1 http://img706.imageshack.us/i/bb27054.jpg/ Prima 2...

The MS 67 are one the best stock the ratp has never had, because you can get in and out very fast when there are a lot of people. The RATP orders new stock for the RER A line. These new trains are called MI 09 and they will replace the MI 82.

They are not on the way out, the RATP is renovating them. But if you want to see one of them with old livery, you should hurry up.

3) Is there any lines you recommend? I recommend the Nice - Cuneo line in the south of France. It's a small line in mountains run with French and Italian DMU's. There is also, twice a day, an Italian diesel intercity. 4) What are German & French normal intercity trains like...

Each TGV which goes from the north to the east or from the north to the south-east passes through CDG. And each TGV which goes from the south-east to the west or from the south-west to the east passes through Massy TGV.

For the TGV: TGV 5316 Le Havre - Lyon (7h55 - 12h31) TGV 5376 Lyon - Le havre (17h26 - 22h00) TGV 5346 Le Havre - Strasbourg (7h43 - 13h33) TGV 5348 Strasbourg - Le Havre (16h48 - 22h40) There also a lot of Intercity train between Le Havre and Paris (each hours) hauled by BB 15000...

I'm glad to see your photo of the class 20 ex-CFD which has been used in France in Burgundy. Could you give me some informations about this locomotive? Does it always work? When has it came back to UK?

You can create your personnal SNCF timetable here: http://www.voyages-sncf.com/services-train/fiches-horaires?rfrr=Homepage_body_services_fichehoraire

Stafford (don't forget I'm French :lol:) Amsterdam Central Bruxelles midi Ventimiglia

160 or 200 km/h (100 or 125 mph) on the LN 36 (the old line) and 320 km/h (200 mph) on the high speed line between Lidge (Liège) and Aachen.

Salut Eurostar. Bienvenue sur ce forum. Et oui, tu n'es pas le seul Français sur ce forum.

This locomotives works for a french factory near Rouen. After seeing this photo, I think you will sream. http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3483/ewsfrclass08935.jpg This factory use two shunter. A year ago, It was two SNCF BB 63500 which worked for the factory...

Take a look here: :wink: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=28163