German 420 class electric multiple units for local passenger traffic

A total of 480 of these three-part articulated sets were built between 1969 and 1997 for the Deutsche Bundesbahn by MAN, WMD, LHB, MBB, O&K, Uerdingen, WU for S-Bahn traffic; 168 are still in use.

Axle arrangement: Bo'Bo'+Bo'Bo'+Bo'Bo'
Length over couplers:  67.4 metres
Height: 3.76 metres
Width: 3.08 metres
Bogie axle base:   16.5 metres (End cars) 14 metres (Middle car)
Internal bogie wheelbase:  2.5 metres
Weight empty:   129 tonnes
Service weight:  144 tonnes
Top speed:  120 km/h
Output (one hour):  2,400 kW
Acceleration:  0.9 m/s², 1.0 m/s²
Driving wheel diameter:     850/780 mm
Seating places: 192

the 'Flèche d'or' passes through Conchil-le-Temple, 1960s

Conchil-le-Temple is in the Pas de Calais département.  See earlier posts on the Flèche d'or/Golden Arrow train.

Simca Aronde P60 above Menton, circa 1960

A model which lasted from 1958 to 1964.

In the immediate background is the French/Italian Customs station.

vehicles on Ulica Braterstwa Narodow, Kwidzyn, Poland, 1950s

A close-up of the two trucks in the distance, the one on the left could have a load of hay.  Until 1945 this town was known as Marienwerder.

you wouldn't want to be in that red convertible...

Graz trams, Austria

mailed in 1944, but the vehicles driving on the left indicates this was taken before Hitler's Anschluss of Austria in 1938

 

Annenstrasse 1919

 

 

anniversary card from 1973

service wagons (1965) (Jean-Henri Manara)

a scene from 1977

also from 1977

 Graz is Austria's second largest city and has had an extensive standard gauge tramway system since 1878, electrified since 1897.

Bulgaria steam loco stamp, 1954

It looks like a 4-6-2 type, thus a BDZ 05 class built by Krupp in the early 1940s.

Orient Express stamps, Bulgaria

Issued in 2008 to mark 120 years of the Orient Express which originally went to Constantinople (Istanbul) on the edge of the Orient (Asia).

Turkey locomotive stamps

rail links to Bulgaria and Iran respectively

1917 Auto Combination Fire Truck