Site admins:

Friends of the
Alpine Railways

c/o
Ilkka Siissalo
Nummenraitti 40
FI-04370 Rusutjärvi
Finland
ilkka.siissalo (ät) iki.fi

This is the newest train type of the Rhätische Bahn RhB, the world's largest narrow gauge network located in the kanton of Graubünden in Switzerland. These trains were used to construct the world record train, which was over 1,9 km long and consisted exclucively of these new electric multiple units. The railway of RhB is metre gauge.
Picture from Chur 14.5.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.


What is this site?

This FUNET railway pictures archive is one of the oldest online sources of train and tram related photos. Its story began roughly at the same time as that of the world wide web. In the meantime, several other good quality train picture sites have emerged, and for about a decade nothing happened here. Since 2016 we revitalised the site and it is now one of the busiest train picture sites online. The site got a new name, railpics.club, but the old and existing long URL address http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/pics/railways works nevertheless as well and leads you here.

This site is now maintained by members of a Finnish railways enthusiasts club, Alppirautatieharrastajat ry, or Friends of the Alpine Railways. We want to express our gratitude to the Finnish academic network FUNET and FUNET's parent organisation CSC, for kindly providing us with the necessary server space.

What is the difference between this site and most of the other railways pictures sites?
Firstly, the pictures are published "as is", that is, we have not done much photoshopping. Probably you can improve many of the photos if you have time and good photoshop skills. Feel free to do so. New pictures are also provided in a large format, "full size", whereas most other online sites limit the resolution of pictures to a very small size to conserve disk space. All the material you can find here, you are welcome to use in any way you like, (with the exception of company copyrighted pictures specifically marked), but obviously it would be nice if you would mention the original photographer's name if you republish the material. And if you print any of these pictures for example in a magazine, the photographers/editors would be delighted if you could post them a paper copy or pdf copy of your publication where the picture appeared. For this purpose you'll find the address and contact details of the chief admin at the top left of this front page.

Remember, when you see a picture on these web pages, you can always get the largest resolution image that we have if you just click on the pic.


Picture categories

Please note that in all categories you can always get the full size picture by clicking on the thumbnail pictures !!


What is new? The latest additions

  • 11.8.2025 added new pictures from Bulgaria taken by Markku Salo.
  • 8.8.2025 Added new pictures from Bulgaria and Hungary by Markku Salo.
  • 30.7.2025 Added a picture of a FLIRT AKKU battery powered train. See >Germany>small private passenger train operators, erixx
  • 29.7.2025 Added pictures of a hydrogen powered Coradia iLint Baureihe 554. See >Germany >Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser GmbH evb.
  • 22.7.2025 Added a lot of new pictures: Trams from Germany and Poland, trains from Czech and from Poland. Most pictures were taken by Petteri Holopainen.
  • 1.7.2025 Added a new category Wales (UK) and published there a lot of pictures taken in 2014 by the late Sanna Siissalo.
  • 27.6.2025 Added a category for the trains in Scotland and published there a lot of pictures from years 2015 and 2017.
  • 24.6.2025 Added a category for trains of Northern Ireland (UK) and published new pictures there.
  • 22.6.2025 Published a lot more train and tram pictures from Ireland.
  • 21.6.2025 Added some pictures from the Republic of Ireland.
  • 12.6.2025 Added a picture of a modern Finnish express train together with a 1941 steam locomotive.
  • 11.5.2025 Added Finland > Arctic Rail.
  • 30.4.2025 Added a new category/country, Tajikistan.
  • 24.2.2025 Added locomotive pictures from Hamburg and one diesel locomotive from Finland as well as pictures from the very small tram line Woltersdorfer Strassenbahn in Germany.
  • 21.1.2025 Added two new pictures from Poland taken by Petr Štefek.
  • 19.1.2025 Added a new category Egypt.
  • 5.1.2025 Added one nice picture of a City of Tampere tram from Finland, by Juhana Nordlund and one picture from Mürrenbahn in Switzerland taken by Johannes Erra.
  • 3.1.2025 Added a lot of pictures from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany incl. new pages Germany > RDC and Germany > Halligbahnen.
  • 1.1.2025 Added a lot of pictures from France, Switzerland and one from Denmark.
  • To see the earlier updates of this site, please click here

This is the last picture added to the site

A new Siemens Smartron locomotive of the Bulgarian class 80. These are cheaper versions of Siemens' widespread Vectron locomotives which the ordering company cannot configure at all. They run only under one electric system and only one security system and can't cross national borders. The coaches behind are former German DB Intercity coaches which have just received new company logos but otherwise remain as they were in Germany.
Picture from Septemvri 5.8.2025 by Markku Salo.


1950s and 2017 trains meeting. The new one is a Swiss made Stadler FLIRT and the old one is a 1950s class Dm7 railbus. Both have in turn been running the route Helsinki - Kerava. Picture from Kerava station in Finland 22.7.2017 by Otto Eemil Juntunen.


Last updated 8.8.2025 / is