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The Rinbad archive
The newsletter - edited by the late Brian Philp - has been published, usually
twice monthly, on paper since October 1992, and on the web since July 1999.
Unformatted plain-text files (200-775 kilobytes each) comprise the complete
Rinbad newsletter archive for each
year to 2003. HTML files cover 2004 and the first Rinbad newsletter for 2005 - Brian's final
edition.
1992-93 - - - 1994 - - - 1995 - - - 1996 - - - 1997 - - - 1998 - - - 1999 - - - 2000 - - - 2001 - - - 2002
2003 - - - 2004 - - - 2005
Rinbad's ancillary resources
Please remember that the following items were current at
the dates when they were written and may have been overtaken by subsequent
events.
Rinbad's railway maps and plans: Europe
AT CZ DE HR Railway maps of certain
complex areas in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic and Germany 
, by Rodger Wilkinson (13 June 2009)
BE DE ES IT Railway maps of certain
complex areas in Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain, by Gregory Beecroft.
CH Railway maps from Switzerland (16 June 2009) 
FR Glos-Montfort -
Honfleur: route profile (as at 1957). The layout has since been simplified
with surplus facilities withdrawn, new sidings opened at Beuzeville (Eure) and a
completely new terminal (Pont de Normandie) opened at Honfleur in 1977,
replacing all the facilities shown there (19 October 2004)
FR LGV Est: a series of 15 schematic
plans of the junctions and stations on the LGV Est, in order from west to east:
Schematic overview ;
1 ;
2 ;
3 ;
4 ;
5 ;
6 ;
7 ;
8 ;
9 ;
10 ;
11 ;
12 ;
13 ;
14 ;
15 (21 January 2007)
Rinbad's other resources
Train-ferry routes of the
world, a list, amended 11 September 2005
GB - Railway companies in
Scotland, showing mergers and acquisitions up to the 1923 grouping and the
1948 nationalisation
GB - Historic structures on
Scotland’s active railways, a 1996 list by Historic Scotland
GB FR BE - Eurostar routes:
distances, including the GB high-speed Channel Tunnel Rail Link Phase 1
opened on 28 September 2003 (amended 20 October 2005)
FR - French military
passenger trains over unusual routes, summer 1995, by Richard Maund
FR - SNCF branch-lines with
freight, a 1995 list
FR - Railways round Gray
(Haute-Saône), 2003, by Richard Maund (slightly amended 19 October 2004)
BE - The Vennbahn: Belgium’s
railway through Germany (slightly amended 19 October 2004)
BE - Brussels Direct
Military Railway (Aachen - Montzen - Visé - Tongeren) by Gregory Beecroft
DE - Berlin’s main
stations: some historical notes, updated 18 November 2003
SE - Sweden’s TGOJ line,
2002 (Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg-Oxelösund Järnvägar), by Richard Maund
ES - Rail transport in
Barcelona in 2000
IT - Railways of
Sardinia, 2003, by Gregory Beecroft
IT - Railways in and around
Napoli, 2002, by Alan de Burton and Gregory Beecroft
IT - Ferrovia Trento -
Malé, 2002, by Gregory Beecroft
IT - Opening dates of some
principal Italian main lines, 2003, by Gregory Beecroft
RU - The Kaliningrad
Oblast and its railways, 1996, by Gregory Beecroft
IN - India:
narrow-gauge lines in late 2002 and late 2003, by Simon Mortimer
IN - India: the complex
junctions at Siliguri and New Jalpaiguri, 2003, by Alastair Boobyer
JP - Some branch lines in
Japan, 1995
AU - Passenger railways of
Victoria, Australia, 1998, by Paul Steane
CA - The Québec Central
Railway, reopened in 2000, described in 2003 by Richard Maund
CA - Urban passenger rail
systems in Canada, a 2001 list, by Richard Maund
US - Local passenger rail
systems in the United States of America, a 2000 list
US - The El Paso &
Southwestern Railroad, 2001, by Richard Maund
US - Chicago’s commuter and
main-line rail passenger routes, 2001, by Ian Umpleby and Richard Maund (February 2002, amended 22 July 2006)
US - Railways in the area
of St.Louis, Missouri, by Richard Maund (February 2002, amended 29 September 2005)
US - Miami - Key West,
Florida’s ‘railway that went to sea’, 1908-1935, by Geoffrey Blyth
US - Cheyenne to
Laramie over Sherman Hill: a chronology with sketch plans, compiled by Alan Sprod (November 2004)
PE - Railways of Perú:
sketch-maps and track diagrams, 1999, by Stephen Phillips
BR - Railways in the São
Paulo area of Brazil in 1997
KN - Railways on
St.Kitts: track diagrams, 2004, by Stephen Phillips
KN - Railways on
St.Kitts: route map, 2004, by Stephen Phillips
Trams over obscure routes - listing trams working in public service over obscure routes -
has now been transferred to the
Enthusiast's Guide to Travelling the Railways of Europe website.
Information about international lines across frontiers in Europe has now been transferred to the
Enthusiast's Guide to Travelling the Railways of Europe website.
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