Category Transportation
Scandinavian Tour Part 5 – Narvik in Norway
The North Atlantic port of Narvik is right at the end of the Iron Ore/Ofoten line from Lulea on Sweden’s Baltic Coast. You can read parts 3 & 4 of my tour to read about our journey there. My fourth visit to the strategically important town was my first from east to west, with my […]
Monday Morning Blues – Uzbekistan Railways Engine in Bukhara
My something blue today is from my 2018 visit to glorious Uzbekistan. I photographed this beauty as I awaited the Afrosiyob to speed me to Samarkand. Join us over on Twitter to post a ‘blue’ image from your travels every Monday morning. @wilburstravels
Train Travel Enthusiasts Weekend – Brussels
This is an unusual post as it concerns a trip not yet taken. If you like trains read on and if you are interested in joining us just leave a comment and I will get back to you. Eurostar We will be travelling by Eurostar train from London St Pancras on Saturday 25th April at […]
Friday Photo – Cargo Trucks, Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan
This is a photo I took in September 2018 as we travelled back from our visit to see the Darvaza Gas Crater.
On Track
Earlier this month I started my new spin-off blog dedicated to my travels by train and anything else topical related to overseas train travel. I have now posted over 20 articles with plenty of photos from thirty years of overseas train travel, a period that has seen me complete well over 200 journeys outside of the […]
Train Delay At Reigate
Mrs Wilbur was travelling home from Reigate in Surrey today when the all too familiar announcement came across the tannoy that scheduled trains were being delayed. “What is it this time?” she thought to herself, “Staff shortages, signal problems, leaves on the track?” For once it was a good reason – The Flying Scotsman, that […]
Sarajevo Trams
The capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina has the oldest tram system in Europe and the second oldest in the world after San Francisco. It opened on New Years day 1885 with the city used as a guinea pig for the Austro-Hungarian empire, of which Sarajevo was a part at that time. It was a test […]
