Lovely 60's music and railways: 2013

14/09/2013

Tram cafe in Prague

There is a good atmosphere cafe in the centre of Prague.

Two street-cars belongs to Cafe Tramuaj - (Tram 11 Cafe) at Wenceslas Square.

In the past, there seemed to the tram line in the square.

No,2077 car was used for barricade in the battle of Prague 1945.

Praha tram in 1991 (Youtube)

Praha in 1968 (Youtube)

Praha Spring in 1968 (Youtube)

(2013/9/14)

07/09/2013

Railway dictionary and day of Japanese railway (14th Oct. USEFUL infomation)

Japanese English/China Dictionary for railway

http://yougo.rtri.or.jp/dic/

Railway technology Glossary (Japanese/English/French/German/Chinese)

It might be useful for translation from Japanese to English.

The dictionary is issued by Railway Technical Research Institute(RTRI)

Railway Technical Research Institute carries out public events near the day of Japanese railway (14th October) every year. (Not according to even official web site). that is not a generally known to have at all except for the neighbourhood..

English site is here

latest Quarterly Report of RTRI was issued.
http://www.rtri.or.jp/publish/qr/2013/qr1303_J.html

There is abandoned rail line near the RTRI.
http://www.geocities.jp/takeshi_departure/souken.html

Do you like Latin music played by Japanese 60's group??(Youtube)

60's GS songs in 2010(Youtube)

(2013/09/07)

31/08/2013

Trams in Tokyo

Trams in Tokyo (1971-73)

There are public-sector huge tram network until the end of 1960's (Wiki)

We can enjoy its glorious days on Youtube.

There still is small private tram style line in Tokyo.

The tram-style line runs only separated traffic from road. There is a part of Tama-den tram (Wiki JP).

Most of Tama-den network on the road disappeared.

Setagaya-Line (1978)

Dancing lonely night (Japanese 60s) by The Jaguars

GS I Love You Too

(2013/08/31)

24/08/2013

Steam Locomotive in Japan (1970s)

There are lots of attractive video, which can be seen via Youtube.

C62, in 1971 Niseko , Hokkaido

C56 in 1972, Kobumi-line, Yamanashi-Nagano prefecture

C56 in Yasukuni-Shinto shrine in 1970s

C62 of 1996 in Hokkaido.

Now, Japan and Taiwan team up for steam train tourism.

CK124 (Japanese C12) and CK101 in Taiwan of 2012

（CK124 Source: Wikipedia)

There are some detailed articles about the tourism alliance.

Taiwan Today

Taipei Times

Groupsounds and the end of Steam Locomotive era was synchronising in Japanese society in the late 1960's and the early 1970s.

It was nostalgic memory about Japanese glorious days.
Gin-No-Kusari

(2013/08/24)

17/08/2013

City Night Line from Augsburg to Paris (Part 2)

CITY NIGHT LINE Cassiopeia (CL40418) run into Mannheim station

Mannheim station(3:00AM)

In Mannheim station many multiple-section trains came and went...

Pictogram shows carriage for bikes,

Compartment for bikes,

The carriage for bikes is quite useful for the traveller. You can really enjoy journey with green ways.

End side

Conductors room

Conductors room (Inside)

Conductors prepared breakfast for passengers of sleeping cars.

Conductors room (Inside)

Recycle bins were very Germanic style...

Dust bins inside car

Lovely poster

Toilet of Couchette cars

coupling of trainsets now!

Pictogram

(2013/08/17)

07/08/2013

City Night Line from Augsburg to Paris (Part 1)

　　Europa-Special Ticket of Deutsche Bundesbahn is attractive for Travellers from Germany to Paris.

It is same price either from Munich or from Frankfurt am Main to Paris Est....

I arranged the journey for Paris by CITY NIGHT LINE Cassiopeia (CL40418)...

Economy Single cost just 168Euro (Europe Special Ticket)

Augsburg station

In Augsburg Hbf station, there was McDonald in front of platform, which CNLs arrived. Therefore, it was useful to wait for the train rather than other stations.