Category: Trains

Melbourne’s W class trams 0

Melbourne’s W class trams

[youtube DYSrAZSbWro] Melbourne’s W class trams are a well known icon of Melbourne that date back to the early 1920s. A main part of Melbourne’s transport system until the 1990s Today the trams are...

The Trans Siberian Railway 0

The Trans Siberian Railway

[youtube XR9w8ot7C6w] The Trans Siberian Railway is one of the world’s great railroad journeys linking Moscow to Beijing via 9,288 kilometres of track that spans eight time zones. The project to build the rail...

Tripandom Disney Week – New Monorails 0

Tripandom Disney Week – New Monorails

Well we thought being Christmas Week we should feature stories on the happiest place (or places) on earth- Yes Disneyland’s around the world. Our first story celebrates new monorails at the Anaheim Disneyland. We...

A train that floats on magnets 0

A train that floats on magnets

The last World Expo was in Nagoya in central Japan and to help get the 20+ million visitors to the site the Linimo Maglev Train was built. This amazing piece of technology offers a...

All aboard the Tramvaje in Prague 0

All aboard the Tramvaje in Prague

There is a lot to see in the Czech city of Prague and there is no better way to cover the distances between palaces, castles and museums than on the Tramvaje. The local tramway...

Dinner on the Tube 0

Dinner on the Tube

[youtube ywLhNwSBizE] While we enjoyed the video above of this group of people setting up their dinner party in a London Tube Train, its probably not recommended and perhaps frowned upon by the transit...

The Rocky Mountaineer 0

The Rocky Mountaineer

[youtube Y8zoiTkoXY0] One of the most scenic places on earth would have to be Canada’s Rocky Mountains and there is no better way to see it than with luxury train travel. Canada has a...

Get on board the Horizontal Lift 0

Get on board the Horizontal Lift

[youtube JboYJ2j0-OU] What is a “Horizontal Lift” you may ask? Well it a unique subway station design only found in St Petersburg, Russia. St Peterburg’s subway system was built in the late 1950’s when...

Quick as a flash on the Eurostar 0

Quick as a flash on the Eurostar

[youtube GCvtXdeAzAI] The Eurostar is the famous train that takes passengers from Waterloo Station in London to Paris’ Gare du Nord as well as to Brussels South. Travel time between London and Paris has...