Trains on boats? (Trivia)

[Trackbedjolly]

Rumours of its demise are much exaggerated!

It forms part of the Malmö-Berlin sleeper route.

See the Snälltåget website for details:
http://www.snalltaget.se/en/destinations/berlin

 

[krus_aragon]

I have something interesting:

BOAT ON A TRAIN!


http://www.buzzland.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/elblag-canal-36.jpg

Or:

http://comfortbus.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Pochylnia1.jpg

Boats being towed on rails from one cana to another.

See also the boat-bearing funicular railway at Big Chute, Ontario

Also, on a sillier note, in the radio comedy Bleak Expectations, the protagonist Pip Bin found an internal railway system on the S.S. Massive Britain:

Conductor: "This is the Dining Room. All change please, all change... into evening dress."

 

[Philip C]

Amongst the many wonderful exhibits at the Seashore Trolley Museum close to Kennebunkport in Maine are the "Tower C" interlocking tower and Northhampton Street Elevated Station. Both originally from Boston, they made the approximately 80 mile journey to the Museum, aboard barges in Atlantic Waters, in 1975 and 1990 respectively. There were pictures of the signalbox at sea at the Museum when I visited several years ago and I have a book with a photo of the box on the barge, but the best I can find on the internet is at the following address:

https://www.facebook.com/someoldnews/photos/pcb.10153487732346620/10153487686531620/?type=3 Click the 'Not Now' option when it appears to see the two photographs.

 

[AndrewE]

I remember going from Malta to Gozo about 10 years ago... on an ex-Netherlands ferry with rails in the main deck and big "side-wings"(like on a paddle-steamer) signposted in Dutch for cyclists and foot-passengers.
Maybe from an inter-island or cross-canal route?

 

[Railsigns]

I made use of the Sicily train ferry last week, as a passenger on a daytime train. It seemed to be entirely optional as to whether passengers remained on the train during the sea crossing or went up onto the deck of the ship. In that respect it was similar to how I remember the Rodby - Puttgarden train ferry in 2005.

 

[D1009]

Rumours of its demise are much exaggerated!

It forms part of the Malmö-Berlin sleeper route.

See the Snälltåget website for details:
http://www.snalltaget.se/en/destinations/berlin

Thanks for confirming that, I used a daytime ferry on that route in Dec 2013, and remember the recorded announcement referring to train passengers to rejoin the train as we approached Trelleborg, even though there was no train on board. I wondered whether it had finished since then.

 

[axlecounter]

Until 1997 they used to load freight wagons onto a ferry on Lake Iseo in Italy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l6erqkFu4F4

 

[itfcfan]

I travelled on the Yuehai train ferry in 2008, on a journey from Haikou to Zhaoqing (near Guangzhou) in southern China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong%E2%80%93Hainan_Railway#Yuehai_Ferry

All the passengers I saw stayed on board the carriages during the crossing (I don't recall any option to go up on deck). Many of my fellow passengers slept through the experience and sleeping to some the next day, they hadn't realised the train had entered a ferry at all!

 

[cogload]

Lake Van in Turkey. In days of yore you could get a train from Istanbul to Van; onto the train ferry and then from Van to Tehran. I haven't done the trip but I understand that it is now discontinued due to the near civil war which is slowly eating up SE Turkey.

If anybody wants to try it make sure your Parsi is decent and stay very watchful.