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Paris-Strasbourg-Lyon(2008)
ICE 3 meets TGV in Paris East Station ICE 3 in Paris East Station
TGV-POS in Paris East Station TGV-R in Paris East Station
Transilien Train pushed into Provins Station Diesel Locomotive of Transilien Trains
T3 in southern Paris
Strasbourg Staion as a balloon
Trams below the Strasbourg Station A tram in Strasbourg
A diamond crossing in the center of the city
　Tickets in Strasbourg, Left: 24 hour-ticket for less than 3 people, Right: Single Ticket.
Sight seeing boats here run through lock gates and a swing bridge.
Strasbourg to Lyon Part-Dieu
Tram in Lyon Tram below Lyon Perrache Station
A subway station in Lyon. Lion is the symbol of Lyon in front of the library.
TGV-Duplex for Paris Lyon ariving to Lyon Part-Dieu
TGV-Duplex at Paris Lyon Station
CDGVAL connects terminals in Charles De Gaulle Airport
Glacier Express, Zermatt,
Brienz-Rothorn (2008)
Swiss Federal Railways from Zürich connect with Rhätische Bahn at Chur. Transfer at Chur is so convinient that only acrossing the same platform is needed to change the trains of dfferent gauge.
St. Moritz station. Electric Locomotives of Rhätische Bahn
The coaches of the Glacier Express.
Due to heavy fogging, whether this is the Landwasser bridge is unknown.
The locomotive of Rhätische Bahn is changed at Disentis/Mustér
to Abt method rack-rail locomotive of Matterhorn Gotthardbahn MGB .
15 min. rest at Andermatt.
Brieg MGB station lies out-side of SBBstation.
After opening of the new Lötschberg tunnel, transfer at Visp station becomes more convinient.
Zermatt terminal of Matterhorn Gotthardbahn. As fosiile fuels are forbidden,
shuttle trains run frequently to the parking.
Locomotives and trains at Zermatt terminal.
Gornergrat station.
Gornergrat station. Approachig to Gornergrat station,
on the background of matterhorn.
Unique styled paralell pantographs
for three-phase alternating current		 Zermatt station of Gornergrat Railway.
Underground cable car to Sunnegga observatory. Sunnegga observatory. station
Bern city transit terminal coverded with dome. Tram and trolly bus run on the same roads
The red is basic colour of trams an buses
Trams of different colour are occasionalyy seen. Trauns of BLS Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon railways.
Brienz Rothorn railway with greatest incline of 250‰
tilted steam locomotives for Sturb method Rack-rail.
Meet twice with the opposit trains. Tilted steam locomotive at Brienz station.
Reservation　Ticket
of Glacier Express
Down from left:
St. Moritz Cable-car
Gornagrat Railway
Cablecar for Sunnegga
Brienz-Rothorn Railway
Three rail section of Rhätischbahn near Chur. Rack-rail of Gornergrat Railway.
Zermatt
Gornergrat Sunnegga
Lisboã(2009)
Transfered from Metro at Sete Rios, arrived at Pragal in the south of the Tejo by Fertagus,
from Pragal using Metro Transportes do Sul arrived at Cecilhas
From Cecilhas to Cais do Sodre across the Tejo. 25 de Abril Bridge, Fertagus, Alpha Pendular & IC run the lower surface, while car run the upper.
At Cais do Sodre Sta., Rapid services are for Cascais, Local services are for Belém & Oeiras.
No. 25, a classic type tram. Reopened Rosso Sta..after repair of Rossio Tunnel.
On Feb.17, 2008 reopened Rosso Sta. Rosso Tunnel start at the end of the platform.
Sintra Station building is at the right platform. The sight seeing bus start from aside of the building.
Nazaré
Fatima 's New church is astonishing scale.
Lisbon Santa Apolónha Sta. & Express Train Alpha Pendular
Santa Apolónha Sta. opened on Dec. 19, 2007. Oriente subway line opened shortly befoire opening of the EXPO
External view of Oriente Sta. from EXPO park side. Platforms of Oriente Sta.
A local train at Oriente Sta. A double deck train at Oriente Sta.

Edinburgh(2009)
Forth railway bridge was built in 1890, 46m high even in high tide and 2528m long.
Got off at Dalmeny station nearly 15 min. from Edinburgh Waverley station. Going down the slope way and then steep wooden stairway, finally reached sea shore road. Nationalrail Enquiries or First ScotRail is convinient to see timetables.
The original beautiful views are difficult to obtain due to repair works.
Trains running on the Forth railway bridge appear very small from the ground level.
The right lower pictureshows wooden stairway down to sea shore through the cliff in deep forest.
The Tay Rail Bridge, which replaced an earlier bridge that collapsed in 1879.

Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway is recovered by voluntanteer works.
Transport Direct tells train and bus timetable and exact map of the bus stop and steam rail station.
Tickets of Scotrail to "Linlithgow plus Bus" is convinient to reach Bo'ness.
A steam locomotive left the garage at Bo'ness. Old cars of Bo'ness Kinneil Railway.
The locomotive changed the position at end-station Birkhill.
Scottish railway exhibition next to Bo'ness station displays varieties of old cars.
Edinburgh Waverkey station is located as deep in the valley. To go to the station from the old town, it is mandatory to pass through steep ramps and stairways or go around the long ways through the North Bridge, Waverley Bridge and the slopes for taxies.
For long distance trains, there are no ticket barrier.Therefore, it is very easy for travellers to use taxies as are available at the same level with platforms. In contrast to long distance train, to go to the platforms no. 12 to 17　for Scotrail, it is necessary to pass the ticket barrier, but they are on the same level.
Trains run far deep as in the valley.
A narrow steep ramp to Market St. called close. Stairway to Waverley station from Market St.
We can catch a taxi at the counter side of the platform #11 for long distance train arrival.
First Scotrail is the main dominant runner in scotland.. Parallel run on the double parallel trucks between Haymarket and Waverley station.
National Express for London Kings Cross via east coast line in stead of GNER.
Virgin Trains run mainlly in the west coast region.
Cross Country Rail is the new face since 2007.
I tasted whisky labeled “Glenkinchie” in "the Whiski" according to a lady bartend's suggestion.
As this was very tasty, I have bought the bottle at the airport for my souvenir.
Dresden, Meißen, Berlin,
Bad Doberan(2010)
This "Frauenkirche" (Church of our lady) are destroyed by bombing. Reconstruction started in 1994 after reunion, and completed on Oct. 30, 2005. Inside was as beatiful as an opera theater.
Semperoper in Dresden, There I saw " Notre Dame " by Franz Schmidt. The story is based on the novel by Victor Hugo. Due to new interpretation and direction, it was rather difficult to understand.
“The parade of monarchs”: This porcelan drawing was saved from destruction by bombing.
Elevated platforms of the Dresden central station: the train in view is a short distance train pushed or pulled by a electric locomotive. Another platform is used for long distance international trains go through Dresden. Ground level platforms are for trains starting from Dresden. RE(regional express) & ICE trains for Leipzig start every hour respectly. Trains for Cottbus, Görlitz, Zittau etc. are scheduled 2-hours interval.
Lößnitzgrundbahn train starts from Radebeul Ost A steam locomotive is changing the position.
The train went back from Moritzburg. Moritzburg castle appears as floating in the pond.
Pilnitz castle 7km above dresden, a gift from Monarch August to his mistress.
A steel suspention bridge of 140m span constructed in 1893. Blaues Wunder（de） (Blue wonder), Loschwitzer Brucke (Loschwitz bridge) is the official name. The structure of suspended mountain monorail
built in 1901.（cf. discription on 2005）
A view from the steamer.
Ordinal Funicular （LINK:Bergbahn Dresden）
Height Diff.:96m/Length:547m/Max. gradient:29%/Built in 1895		 A carriage of suspended mountain monorail. Height Diff.:84.2m/Length:273.8m/Max. gradient:39.99%/Built in 1901
Both mountain rails have their feet at Körnerplatz at the river side
against Blasewitz/Schillersplatz across Loschwitz bridge.
Porcelain museum in Meissen. Meissen・Albrecht sburg
Streetcars in Dresden.
Left two pictures were taken in 1970 and right two are taken in 2010.，A broken building at the right pictures is Martin-Gropius-Bau , which was restored from 1978 and reformed for international convention.1999.
The Berlin wall is left in Niederkirchner Straße where the building lies as seen in the left upper picture.
Behind the wall is soviet occupied area, and someone is standing with a dog in the western side.
Marlene Dietrich(1901-1992) was a famous actress in germany and fled to Hollywood for rejection of Hitler's order and worked for anti-german movement. Although she was not welcomed in Berlin after the war, a place near the potsdam plaza was named for her memory recently.
U55 は 2009年8月8日開業したベルリン中央駅-連邦議会前-ブランデンブルグ門の３駅，たった 1.8km の短い地下鉄．実情はホームの反対側を柵で締め切って２両だけの10分毎の折り返し単線運転．予備車両が何処にいるのかも分からなかった． ブランデンブルグ門駅名標，この右側へ出るとパリ広場のど真ん中に出る．S-Bahn の駅名 Unter den Linden も Brandenburger Tor と改めた．今後 Unter den Linden の下を通り，アレックスで U5 につながる予定という．
Bundestag 駅から出れば当然連邦議会議事堂が． U55から出ると直ぐブランデンブルグ門．
連邦議会議事堂，上のドーム内を人が歩いている． Hotel Adlon．
マルクス・エンゲルスは子供に囲まれて． フリードリッヒ通り駅前のトラム．
ハッケッシャーマルクト ハッケッシャーマルクトは東の信号が人気．
ハッケッシャーマルクトにはこんな店も．
S-Bahn のハッケッシャーマルクト駅は
壁の時代はマルクス・レーニン広場という駅だった．		 U1 が走る Oberbaumbrücke．U1 も壁の時代にはこの橋の向こうの Schlesisches Tor 止まりで，橋を渡って走ることはなかった．
Mauerpark （壁公園）という，Schönholz, Hermsdorf など現在のS1のルートへ向かう鉄道の初代北駅の跡である．
前に Görlitzer 駅でも駅跡というのに平ではなく丘になっているのに納得できなかったが，魔の山から類推すると戦災の瓦礫が捨てられたのではないか．壁はまだ作られていないとしても使われなくなった駅は格好なゴミ捨て場になる．
White asparagus（Spagel) is the welcome sign of Spring.
“Molli”is running at ca.150km north of Berlin for the Baltic sea resort.
“Molli”, A street steam locomotive. Down train is pulled by a reverse faced locomotive.
the locomotive opposite to the top of train. Just opposite to the locomotive.
Stopping at Bad Doberan Stadtmitte. Bad Doberan Göethestraße
Heiligendamm Train of the reverse sense crossing at Heiligendamm.
Kuhlingsborn Ost Kuhlingsborn West
Position change of the steam locomotive at Kuhlingsborn West.
Paris, Nimes & Montpellier（2010）
パリ・リヨン駅　Paris Gare de Lyon
1900年万国博開催に合わせて開業した3代目の駅　
高さ67m，時計の直径 6.4mの時計台がある．		 1901年開業のベル・エポック調の装飾がある
“Train Blue”
TGV　Europe　のプログラムから取った乗車券と指定席券，
自分のパソコンでプリントしたものを座席に座っていて検札に見せるだけでよい．
現地で自分のカードを提示して切符をとる方法もある．
リヨン駅には青のホームと黄色のホームがある．
正面に見えるのは青のホームで，黄色のホームは
左側一段下がったところの200m先にある．
10分以上歩かねばならない．
エスカレーターは地下ホームの入口		 ニーム駅に到着する 総二階建てTGV Duplex.
パリからスペイン国境に近いペルピニヤンまで行く．
パリからニームまで686kmを2時間と快速だが，
あと210kmには2時間余かかる．
A local train seen at Nimes Station.ter． a locl train to Aigues-Mortes.ter．
The ancient Bull Ring in Nimes.
Games are held on the day of our arrival.		 Pont du Gard, Aqueduct in Roma era
"Aigues-Mortes" is literally dead water, the old port works no more due to accumulatios of earth and sand. The medieval city is left without destruction. The constance tower, former a lighthouse, is now an observation platform. In the view from the tower at the right, the rail to the terminal Le Grau de Roi is interrupted bu a movable bridge.
The blue line in Montpellier. The yellow line in Montpellier.




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