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        • November 2016 - Germany, Poland
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      • 2018 >
        • August 2018 - the best laid plans of mice and men
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        • July 2019 - Interrail part 1
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How it all began

1950

​Hornby-Dublo, BR(WR) and railtours

France

18.08.91

Narrow gauge, TGVs and toothache

Germany

16.08.92

Narrow gauge steam

Belgium, Luxembourg

29.04.93

Threatened lines and a BLS railtour

Germany, Poland

15.09.93

Narrow gauge steam, and standard gauge in Poland

Belgium

25.09.93

ADL to Mariembourg for CF3V steam fest and track

Belgium

20.11.93

Brussel in (very considerable) Detail

Belgium, Netherlands

22.01.94

Another branch line bash and a few kilometres into the Netherlands

USA

29.01.94

South to the border, down Mexico way

Luxembourg

30.04.94

Steam and steel

Belgium

14.05.94

More Belgian branches with ADL

Belgium, France

01.09.94

Serious trackbashing, and a bit of steam

Luxembourg, Germany & France

09.10.94

International steam

Belgium

04.03.95

First try at the Vennbahn, a landslip and the Kusttram

Poland

27.04.95

Steam on two gauges

Netherlands

26.05.95

Dockland tours, steam and trams

Belgium, France

04.08.95

Cross border lines, trams, canals, and a railtour

France, Belgium, Netherlands

12.10.95

Eurostar, triangle bashing and a railtour

Belgium

10.11.95

A (short) walk in the Ardennes and a Saturday that wasn't

Germany

13.04.96

Steam on the Rurtalbahn

Netherlands, Belgium​

08.05.96

Netherlands branches and 'will we get to Moha'

​Belgium, Luxembourg

31.07.96

​Joined up gricing and a freight line tour

​Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, and Czech Republic

​05.08.96

​The Silver Wedding Tour

Belgium

17.08.96

Le Centre - trams old and new

Netherlands, Belgium​

​26.09.96

​Filling in gaps in the Netherlands, and an ADL tour

France and Belgium

​02.05.97

​Steam to Eeklo and Maldegem

Netherlands, Belgium, Germany

​26.05.97

​Sachsen closures, an ADL railtour, steam and Lovers Rail

Belgium and Germany

05.07.97

Two railtours featuring Moha and the Ruhrtalbahn

​Germany and Belgium

25.07.97​

Quite a lot of the Vennbahn with steam, and some branches

France

17.10.97

A Parisian circular with steam

Germany (via Belgium)

31.01.98

Some Ruhr branches and the end of the line for Pronsfeld

Belgium

20.02.98

Trams, beer shops and Antwerpen Dam at last

Belgium, Germany

17.04.98

Realigned and tilted, but no dangling

Netherlands, Belgium, Germany

27.04.98

More Sachsen closures and Eisenberg uncertainty

Germany

29.08.98

The Semi-Centenarian 1 - from Penkridge to Poland

Germany

26.12.98

Querfurt - or Desperate Dave's Christmas Closure Dash

Germany

15.01.99

Communist icons, closures and the Rubelandbahn

Belgium

04.02.99​

Eurostar, a comprehensive docks tour and the odd beer!

Germany, Czech Republic

03.04.99

Markets, bustitutions and "deportation"

Germany via Belgium

25.06.99

The last of the Vennbahn, more ex-DR branches and a very steep hill

​Germany

​09.07.99

The Love Parade, failed trains, cancelled tours and fires!

Germany

17.12.99

Slade at Chemnitz - and the start of the Niederwiesa saga

Germany

19.02.00

North east branches and the Little Puce Coupe

Germany

10.03.00

More ex-DR lines and Niederwiesa episode 2

France

14.04.00

The CFBS gala - or how to get a (legal) free ride on Eurostar

Germany

22.04.00

Steam, funiculars and what day does (6) mean

Germany

20.05.00

Niederwiesa finale, and a gridlocked Berlin

Germany, Czech Republic

23.08.00

Halle S-Bahn and Czech spas

​Belgium

08.09.00

ADL to Genk, my last passenger line, and a beer festival

Belgium, Germany

29.09.00

TTB Day and Plandampf

​Germany

12.01.01

To Niedersachsen in the fog

Northern Ireland

09.02.01

Antrim to Lisburn - not to mention most of the rest!

Germany

02.03.01

K lsch, coal and Bavaria

Germany

13.04.01

More K lsch, preserved narrow gauge and a snowy Saarland

Germany, Denmark, Sweden

18.05.01

The great train ferry bash

Netherlands, Germany

31.05.01

Subway screaming, sausage-banging and flammable electrics

Germany, Czech Republic

25.10.01

Rain, steam and Grossheringen again

Germany

01.12.01

Missed the tour (again) but did Stuttgart in detail

Germany

15.02.02

Flat, flat, flat - Schleswig-Holstein

Germany

08.03.02

Flatter still and flatter - Ostfriesland and Schleswig-Holstein

Germany

30.03.02

Filling in the gaps, and Enzweihingen at last

Czech Republic

30.08.02

Plums, narrow gauge and Renaissance squares

Netherlands, Germany

27.09.02

Trams, two 1501s, a Swedish kettle and Hook Norton

Germany

03.10.02

The Westerwald Plandampf

Germany

15.11.02

Delays, alarms and the Trossinger Eisenbahn

Germany

29.11.02

Winter in Westfalen and a cow-free Brandoberndorf

Germany

23.01.03

Berlin and around

France

25.04.03

The Rain in France stays mainly on the (Baie de) Somme

Germany

22.05.03

Baden-W rttemberg branch bashing (and trams)

Czech Republic, Slovakia

07.06.03

Heat, lions, brewery taps and more heat

Czech Republic

03.10.03

Louny Tunes - Steam and bustitutions in Bohemia

Germany

12.12.03

Tourist traps, Christmas markets and Franconian branches

Germany

26.03.04

Schleswig-Holstein and Berlin revisited

France, Belgium, Germany

08.04.04

Multinational loose ends

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary

21.05.04

The Semi-Centenarian 2 - narrow gauge in three countries

Germany, Switzerland, Austria

​25.08.04

​How to grice a country in an hour

Germany

06.10.04

Baden-W rttemberg finale

Germany, Czech Republic

27.04.05

Bavarian Blondes and Bohemian branches

Portugal

16.06.05

Metre gauge in the Douro valley

Belgium, Germany

05.08.05

Another non-railtour, and some German niggles dealt with

Germany, Czech Republic

29.09.05

Plandampf, Cannstatter Volksfest and the Chodov avoider

Germany

25.01.06

Snowy Bavarian branches

Germany

02.03.06

Max the Mole's Berlin Kurvefest

Ireland

12.05.06

Another country finished, and the UK's other cross border line

Germany

15.07.06

The beginning of the end (and the Love Parade is back)

Germany

20.08.06

The last hurrah - for the moment!

Czech Republic, Slovakia

02.09.06

Moravian moleworks and Slovakian steam

Czech Republic, Poland

22.02.07

Wot? No snow?

Czech Republic, Poland

17.05.07

Nearly all the way to Osoblaha

Germany, Switzerland

29.06.07

Beer, steam and steam beer

Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia

04.10.07

Tidying the edges

Czech Republic, Austria

31.10.07

​The Molecatcher's Revenge

Czech Republic, Austria

03.04.08

All Czeched Out

Germany

18.04.08

Return to Gummersbach - again!

Czech Republic, Poland

10.07.08

As soon as you think you've finished...

Austria, Slovenia

07.08.08

The Terminator - or The Starter?

Austria

22.08.08

The Wild(ish) West

Czech Republic

12.12.08

Zalhostice or bust

Austria

27.12.08

Struggling bulls and narrow gauge bears

Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland

02.07.09

They think it's all over ...

Austria

26.08.09

Upper Austria - filling the gaps

Slovakia

12.09.09

No steam in the streets - but a pub at the end of the universe

Austria

13.11.09

The closures that never were

Germany

01.04.10

Dampfspektakel and traffic jams

Germany

03.07.10

Tidying up in Pomerania

Austria

14.07.10

Kienberg-Gaming at last

Austria

14.04.11

Clearing up in Carinthia

Germany, Czech, Austria and others

03.06.11

The last hurrah (maybe)

Germany

​30.09.11

​​Freight lines, re-openings, and a little steam

Belgium and Germany

27.04.12

More re-openings and a beer festival

Germany

26.05.12

Two for the price of one

Germany

27.07.12

Round and round Berlin

Germany

04.10.12

Curves, copper and steam

Czech Republic

28.02.13

Fine detail in Bohemia

Germany

30.04.13

Steam on two gauges

Belgium and Germany

01.08.13

Openings and reopenings

Germany

27.05.14

Dampfspektakel 2014

Germany

09.07.14

Preserved lines and another semicentenary

Germany

17.04.15

Sachsen Steam - two gauges again

Slovakia and Czech Republic

11.06.15

Rendez 2015 and steam on a Moravian freight branch

Slovakia (via Austria)

05.03.16

A little clearing up

Slovakia

14.04.16

The final frontier - well, everything but

Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic and Poland

21.06.16

Rounding up some stragglers

Germany and Poland

​14.11.16

​​More stragglers and some sightseeing

Germany and Poland

25.03.17

Diversionary activities

Czech Republic and Poland

05.07.17

Connections, curves and cross-borders

Poland and Slovakia

14.07.17

Two summer-only reopenings and a chimney

​Poland and 8 others - or not

16.08.18

The best laid plans...

Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Czech Republic

​22.07.19

Interrail part 1 - better late than never

​Germany, Switzerland and Belgium

​​06.08.19

Interrail part 2 - the tale of the wandering rucksack

Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Netherlands and Belgium

​​14.06.22

​Interrail again - loose ends in several countries

​Belgium

​​03.09.22

Beer and some Vicinal (well, ex-SNCB/NMBS) track

France, Belgium, Luxembourg

04.06.24

Preserved Vicinal, steam in Luxembourg and WW2 60 cm gauge

 

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