The Railways Home Page on MERCURIO

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If you have additions to the lists or liveries on this site please contact one of us. The maintainer of the train lists is Marco van Uden, of the liveries Tobias Köhler. For questions about the Railways in a specific country you can also contact one of the Railway Fans who keep the information on this site up-to-date.

Last update of this page took place on january 03, 1995 by MAvU

Main projects on this server:

The European Train List: technical data and one-line descriptions of all European locomotives, shunters, EMUs and DMUs (including pointers to pictures located in Aachen/Germany)
Back Issues of the European and Swiss Railway News
Liveries of European Railways and North-American Railroads
Liveries/Paint schemes for the ABB/SLM Locomotive 2000
Timetables of some European Railways
Miscellaneous information on European Railways
Other sites throughout the world with information regarding Railways/Railroads

Railway Liveries/Paint Schemes (in colour):

North American Railroads' paint schemes.
Liveries of the Benelux Countries' Railways (NS, SNCB/NMBS and CFL).
Liveries of the German Railways (DB).
Liveries of the French Railways (SNCF).
Liveries of the Swiss standard gauge Railways (SBB/CFF/FFS and Private).
Liveries of the Swiss narrow gauge Railways (SBB/CFF/FFS and Private).
Liveries of the Scandinavian Countries' Railways (DSB, NSB, SJ and VR).

Liveries for ABB/SLM Locomotive 2000:

Undecorated drawing (design your own!)
BLS (Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon) class 465 livery (real)
Swiss Federal Railways(SBB/CFF/FFS) class 460 livery (real)
Old SBB/CFF/FFS livery put on class 460 (fantasy)
SBB/CFF/FFS Eurocity colours (fantasy)
MThB (Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn) class 466 livery (fantasy)
NSB (Norway) new class El18 livery (most probably what it will look like in 1996)
NSB (Norway) new class El18 livery (a nicer livery, but this will probably stay fantasy)
SJ (Sweden) livery for class Dm3 successor (fantasy)
NS (The Netherlands) dual voltage class 1800 for EC/freight trains Holland-Germany (fantasy)
New DB(AG) (Germany) livery (fantasy)
Wagons-Lits livery (fantasy)
Amtrak paint scheme (fantasy)
Burlington Northern & Santa Fe A-unit paint scheme (fantasy)
Great Lakes & North America paint scheme(fantasy)

Timetables of some European Railways:

Dutch Railway Timetables and Information

Belgian Railway Timetables (by Twan Laan)

German Railway Timetables (by Fred Ramm, also lots of foreign connections)

Austrian Railway Timetables (only 5 lines - very difficult to connect)

Danish Railway information (by Jürgen Gräfenstein)

Norwegian Railway Timetables

Swedish Railway Timetables (by Roland Bol)

Finnish Railway Timetables

Czechian Railway Information (by Dan Zeman)

Eurostar Information and Timetables (by Erik Evrard)

The Subway Navigator (by Pierre David)
Railroading from, to and through Paris (by Plume)

Miscellaneous European Railway information:

List of all European State Railways.
List of all Swiss Private Railways.
List of all German Private Railways.
Fastest trains in the entire world.
Information and timetables of the Dutch Railways
The Swedish Railway history
The Inlandsbanan in northern Sweden
Explanation of the UIC Numbering scheme for passenger and freight cars.
Explanation of the Swiss Railways numbering scheme.
Explanation of the German Railways numbering scheme.
Explanation of the French Railways numbering scheme.
Explanation of the Norwegian Railways numbering scheme.

More WWW on Railways:

The Picture Gallery in Aachen/Germany (European and American rolling stock)
The Railserver WWW Gateway of Fred Ramm in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Some more information on the Swedish Railways
A lot of information on the Norwegian Railways
Information and pictures on the Portuguese Railways
The Branch Line Society Home Page (of British rail fans)
The Virtual Railroad 's Home Page of Yves Beaudoin (Alberta/Canada).
The Cyberspace World Railroad Page of D.S. Dawdy.
WWW starting point: Railroad-related Internet Resources
Japanese Railways Information from the RTRI Institute
The Subway Navigator

European Railway Fans

If you have questions concerning the Railways of one of the following countries, please contact the local Railway Fan(s) listed.

AUSTRIA: Andreas Pavlik
Email: pavlik@pap.univie.ac.at
BELGIUM: Patrick Ingelaere
Kazernelaan 4
B-2550 Kontich
Email: as.ingelaere.p@alpha.ufsia.ac.be (home: 74553.2447@compuserve.com)

Erik Evrard
Vijversdreef 44
B-1630 Linkebeek
Email: evrard@hep.iihe.ac.be
DENMARK: Carsten S. Lundsten
Paukevej 18
DK-2730 Herlev
Email: csl@dksin.dk

Nick Sandru
Sysop, SanDES RailBBS
Hoje Topholm 37
DK-3390 Hundested
Email: ns@sandes.dk
FRANCE: Christophe Bonnet
Email: christophe.bonnet@irisa.fr
GERMANY: Sven Manias
Rintheimer Strasse 32
D-76131 Karlsruhe
Email: sven.manias@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de

Tobias Köhler
Leopoldstrasse 32
D-76133 Karlsruhe
Email: s_tbk@ira.uka.de
GREECE: Gerasimos Maniatis
Email: b94-3339@amalia.ee.upatras.gr
IRELAND: Jonathan Kidd
Email: kiddj@netc.ie
ITALY: Massimo Macucci
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Universita' di Pisa
Via Diotisalvi, 2
I-56126 Pisa
Email: macucci@pimic.iet.unipi.it
THE NETHERLANDS: Marco van Uden
Hoveniersweg 74
NL-4001 HW Tiel
Email: marco@nikhefk.nikhef.nl; Twan Laan
Zevensprong 36
NL-5683 KR Best
Email: laan@win.tue.nl
NORWAY: Terje Knudsen
Email: terjek@ifi.uio.no
POLAND: Michal Jankowski
Email: michal.jankowski@fuw.edu.pl
PORTUGAL: Antonio Julio Raposo
Email: ajr@virgo.inesc.pt; Lino O. Santos
Email: ls49+@andrew.cmu.edu
SWEDEN: Urban Fredriksson
Email: urf@icl.se
SWITZERLAND: Marcel Marchon
P.O.Box 336
CH-4503 Solothurn
Email: marcel.marchon@iwi.unisg.ch
UNITED KINGDOM: Matthew Simmonds
Email: ce3098@bristol.ac.uk

Tim Bourne
Email: tbourne@siam.win-uk.net

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