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Near Deansgate-Castlefield Station , Manchester Metrolink trams pass in front of Beetham Tower (August 2015).

Was in Appenzell last weekend and decided to take the tram-train from St.Gallen to Appenzell, which was my first time riding that line. I sadly never ride the old section in the Ruckhalde T-T

And secondly I took the train from Appenzell direction Gossau. Can remember the old trains from when I was a kid :P

Leighton Buzzard Railway diesel locomotive Beaudesert (Alan Keef, 1999) shares a two-foot-gauge track with Simplex locomotives Damredub, Arkle, and Redrum at Pages Park Station (Bedfordshire, England) in September 2018. The Leighton Buzzard Railway opened in 1919 to serve local sand quarries, and originally used steam locomotives before converting to internal combustion in 1921. Motor Rail of Bedford supplied both gasoline and diesel Simplexes, with newer ones like these three joining ex-military locomotives sold off by the War Department after World War 1.

Liverpool Overhead Railway exhibit at the Museum of Liverpool (seen August 2015).

From 1893 to 1956, the Liverpool Overhead Railway connected the docks, and other parts of the Mersey River waterfront, using electric multiple unit trains. It was the second electric “metro” in Britain after the City & South London Railway opened in 1890, and the first elevated railway to open with electric trains instead of starting with steam and electrifying later like New York and Chicago. After the “Dockers’ Umbrella” closed, not much was preserved, but car 3 (Brown Marshalls & Co Ltd, 1892) is displayed with some elevated track at a reconstructed Dingle Station.

Sicht auf eine Look der V200 Reihe im Technik Museum Speyer

During the interwar period, a dip in military contracts led Armstrong Whitworth of Newcastle upon Tyne, England to build more locomotives, including some early diesels such as 0-4-0 diesel-electric shunter No. 2.  It was built as a demonstrator in 1933 and used from 1937 to 1970 by A. Reyrolle and Company's factory in Hebburn, whose main product was electrical switchgear for power stations. 

After its retirement, No. 2 was sold to the W.F. and J.R. Shepherd scrapyard in Byker, where it worked as a shunter before itself being declared scrap.  Thankfully, the diesel locomotive was saved and moved to the Tanfield Railway's Marley Hill depot in 1978, where it was restored and given vacuum brakes so it could pull passenger trains.  It does a lot of work at Tanfield such as shunting, piloting, and substituting for steam locomotives. When I visited just after a rainstorm in May 2017, the locomotive was sitting in the Marley Hill railyard.

Sir Hayden is looking a little frazzled at the Talyllyn Railway's 75th anniversary gala!

Until September of this year the shown Intercity 1 trains are planned to be retired and replaced with the new Intercity Express L, so the IC Mitteldeutschland (Cologne - Gera) and IC Allgäu (Cologne - Oberstdorf) are two of the last IC 1 routes still using the IC 1 train until they are discontinued and replaced.