Our photographic special had similar 0-10-0's at each end to allow for runbys in both directions.

My birthday treat - peering out the window of my sleeper I found this M62 throbbing away on the adjacent track. These handsome machines are found all over the former Soviet system.

Station mistress studies the timetable from the desk where she controls all the switches and signals at this rural junction in southern Ukraine.

The local train for Rakhov departs Delyatin, with L class steamer being prepared for its charter run later in the day.