7th Sep 08: Set 3006 waits at St Pancras with the 19.30 to Brussels

7th Sep 08: At 23.10 Thalys sets 4540 & 4321 wait their next duty at Brussels Midi station

9th Sep 08: A 'U Bahn' service crosses the Spree on the Oberbaum bridge

9th Sep 08: 155 179-5 southbound on the climb past Kaiserdamm 'S Bahn' station

9th Sep 08: A 'U Bahn' set reflected in the glass Museum walls. The C47 (Dakota) is a reminder of the Berlin Airlift usd to convey food to the city after the Russians closed the borders

10th Sep 08: A 'U Bahn' service to Pancow rushes into Kaiserdamm Station. These units have a very rapid rate of acceleration and decceleration. 1/60 @ f4. ISO 1600

11th Sep 08: 143 306-9 enters Schonefeld with the fast shuttle to the airport. The shuttle version of these double deck coaching sets are somewhat spartan inside.

11th Sep 08: 155 068-0 heads east towards Berlin

11th Sep 08: Arriva DMU VT23B east bound. A pretty little unit I think.

11th Sep 08: 140 647-9 runs towards the city

11th Sep 08: RBH opperted 145 class No 206 heads west with a long rake of LPG tanks

11th Sep 08: 143 845-0-Runs east with flat wagons

11th Sep 08: ITL 118 002 and a long rake of hoppers

11th Sep 08: 189 055-7 on the through line with a mixed consist

11th Sep 08: This attractive articulated DMU has the motor in the very short central section

11th Sep 08: A Red Shed ! Not what I had expected to see. DE 670 Westbound

11th Sep 08: An Engineers 'Diagnostic' rail car 701 169-9

11th Sep 08: 140 647-9 and loaded hoppers passes 143 566-8 on a shuttle service

11th Sep 08: 185 277-1 takes tha platform loop with an east bound liner

11th Sep 08: 155 068-0 with a train of cement wagons passes the hopper train

11th Sep 08: Now with a fresh driver in the chair 140 647-9 gets under way

11th Sep 08: Witha long rake of 'Railion' branded side tippers 155 150-6 hurries through

11th Sep 08: 143 843-1 slows with an express for Dessau

11th Sep 08: Diesil 233 700-00 with another massive rake of hoppers as a Dessau Nauen express waits the right away.

11th Sep 08: A 'Ludmilla' is a big powerful beast

11th Sep 08: 143 233-5

11th Sep 08: 155 168-8- with empty oil tanks

11th Sep 08: 155 128-2- with more tanks west bound

11th Sep 08: An express EMU races through

11th Sep 08: Two more 'Ludmilas' 233 206-2 & 232 230-3 run light through the station

11th Sep 08: Locon owned No 103 crawls along on the through line with spent ballast,

11th Sep 08: With the shunter now detached No 118 301 backs down onto the train. It departed east with a giant plume of clag from one of it's two engines. Unfortunately under the only dark patch of the day

11th Sep 08: PKP Cargo branded EU43-002 runs through the platform to overtake the ballast still waiting on the through

11th Sep 08: High Speed DMU enters Ostbahnhof with a service from Kopenhagen

11th Sep 08: Inter City high speed DMU ready to depart to Kopenhagan

11th Sept 08: The classic view at Ostbahnhof as 401 512-9 waits to depart

11th Sep 08: 112 123-5 with an Express to Frankfurt (Oder) at Ostbahnhof

11th Sep 08: Obviously not Paddington

11th Sep 08: 101 109-7 waits at Ostbahnhof station with an express to Munster

12th Sep 08: 121 136-7 arrives at Berlin Hauptbahnhof with an express from Dortmund

12th Sep 08: 143 931-09 waits to leave with the 09.21 to Nauen

12th Sep 08: Our train from Berlin at Cologne. 0-250kph in less than 7 minutes! Impresive.

12th Sep 08: 2152 stands at Brussels Midi. Our train from Cologne is along side.

12th Sep 08: With the light fading fast tram 7799 pulls away from the Midi station stop.

12th Sep 08: A busy cross roads with a triangular tram junction in the middle and non working traffic lights was interesting to watch

13th Sep 08: In Push Mode 1350 waits to depart

13th Sep 08: 1190 and E186 119 wait their next duty

13th Sep 08: The view West with the Eurostar line climbing away on the right. I haven't seen so many compound points in the UK since the 60's!

13th Sep 08: Shunter 5211 at rest

13th Sep 08: EMU 233 waits to depart. Note the grafitti, virtually everying on wheels is plastered in the stuff despite what these pictures show

13th Sep 08: EMU 359 arrives from the east

13th Sep 08: Not fitted with buffers 2742 nears the platform. Note the 2nd loco

13th Sep 08: 2720 and a 2nd set was under power.

13th Sep 08: Set 511 departs east. The main entrance, Eurostaar Terminal and shopping mall are all very modern but the rest of the station is old, smelly and decrepid