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2002 / 2002-08 Russia, Estonia

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An eighteen day trip to Russia and Estonia to make good use of a one year Russian visa, I flew to Saint Petersburg via Frankfurt and stayed at friend’s house for a few nights. We did some of a steam special the Friday and did some sights at the weekend. Went south on the Monday with a TEP70 on load twenty to Pskov for two nights giving us a full day in the city. We then moved on with TEP70 via Luga to Novgorod for two nights there giving us on day in the city. We then returned to Saint Petersburg and on the Sunday I took a Moskva train to Bologoye and then picked up the overnight to Tallinn. I had three days taking photos of the constant procession of mainly oil trains and some of the “new” ex Union Pacific C36-7 GE locos were now in service, very strange to hear FDL music with USA horns in Estonia! I then returned overnight to Bologoye and then took local trains to Dno-1 where I had a few hours with the camera and then to Novgorod for the night. I left at lunchtime on the TEP70 to Novolisino and then an EMU back to Saint Petersburg. A quiet day in the city and then I flew back home via Frankfurt
2002 / 2002-07 Finland, Russia

23 photos

Another trip to Russia this time in and out by rail to and from Helsinki and I flew with BA to Helsinki for one night there. Took the international train the night morning with a pair of Sr1 to Vainikkala and then another dose of M62-1739 to Vyborg for dud ЧS6-019 (the only one I’ve had before) for the run to Saint Petersburg Finlyandskiy. This time I had arranged an apartment in the city centre which was nice and very comfortable (apart from the rock hard bed!). I did my usual few TEP70 loco hauled moves some days and saw more of the city. I returned to Helsinki on the Monday and thankfully this time got required ЧS6-019 and then as expected another run with M62-1739 and a pair on new Sr1 was a good finish to the trip. I flew back with BA to Heathrow
2002 / 2002-06 Russia, Finland

35 photos

Another trip to Russia, this time I flew to Moskva and then took an internal flight on a Ilyushin 86 to Saint Petersburg and stay a friends place the whole visit. We did quite a bit of exploring the city on some days and I made the opportunity of travelling with a few of the local trains now that I was aware which ones were TEP70. During the trip I went down to KM53 once and therefore get two TEP70s in one go. The next day I went out to Gatchina to pick up an inbound turn. I returned via Helsinki so got a chance to exit on the rain via Vyborg with a big twin ЧS6 to Vyborg and then an M62 to Vainikkala, at this time it was quite common for an M62 to work the border crossing section vice VL82 dual voltage locos. I had a pair of Sr1 electrics into Helsinki and then made my way to the airport for flight back home
2002 / 2002-04 Russia, Estonia

110 photos

I set off on my first trip to Russia flying to Saint-Petersburg via Frankfurt and I stayed the first part of my trip in Saint-Petersburg. The trip was a mix of seeing some friends and getting the travel on some trains in the local area. My first full day I found the new railway museum beside the Varshavskij station and there was a good selection of big diesels there. A fair amount of time was spend booking tickets for my homeward journey through all the official channels! I soon found out that there were some local quite long distance trains that were booked for TEP70 so that gave me some travels during the time my friend was at work. We had an old Mi-8 helicopter in the city on the Saturday, safety was not high on their agenda but we survived! I left on the Sunday night on one of the procession of overnight trains to Moskva. I had a full day there mainly in Red Square and then the overnight train to Tallinn, and nice that I was right at the front as well in the EVR stock. A TEP70 took over in the yards at Tosno and it worked all the way to Tallinn. The next day I had a shed visit arranged at Tapa and then a cab ride on a twin unit 2TE116 on a heavy oil train into the yards at Muuga. I returned home the next day via Wien
2002 / 2002-03 Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova

106 photos

A twelve day trip started with a flight to Graz via Frankfurt and then into Slovenia and a night at Celje. I took “Pohorje” next morning to Ljubljana and then bus / DMU to Bohinjska Bistrica and then a single southbound trip on the “Avtovlak” to Most na Soči as points got split and so I had to return to Bohinjska Bistrica on another DMU. Next day down to Nova Gorica and with Miško as we had permits to ride both freights to Ajdovšcina and then Jesenice, both had the “staff” van at the front the ideal location to travel in. I then took an EMU to Ljubljana and “Pohorje” to Pragersko with 362.038 and then 664.106 to Ptuj for one night. Same 664 next morning for 363.038 to Celje and then “Citadella” portion to Hodoš with a pair of 664s. I had a few hours in Budapest and overnight to Caracal and a day there. I then continued into Bucureşti Nord and then went to Braşov for a couple of nights. Once back in Bucureşti I went to the Moldova embassy to get a visa issued in my passport. The overnight wasn’t very comfortable and long border checks and then on arrival in Chişinău the 3TE10 section was off before I had chance to see what it was, I chased it to the shed but staff had no idea what I was asking about! During the day I took lots of photos of the big twin 2TE10 locos at the station. Next day Neil and I did a trip to Bender 2 and back on a DMU, and then south overnight to Basarabiaska and then we left there in the through coaches going to Cahul. We got off at Prut 2 for the local train heading over the bridge to Fălciu, we got to the border gates before the bridge and then eventually they said we had to get off as we were not local citizens! So a taxi it was (eventually) all the way to Galaţi where we only just made to fast train to Bucureşti Nord and we had GM 63.0847 from Făurei for the diesel section into the capital. Back to Caracal next morning and a quick trip to Craiova as for 66/70s were in sidings opposite the station. Back to Bucureşti next day and flight home via Wien
2002 / 2002 British photos

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