About 3 weeks ago I got married. It was a great day for me in what has not been the best of years. The Honeymoon was very enjoyable. I lost count of how many times we used rail based travel (which is truly a great thing!!!). So I thought I would share my (not very good quality) photo's.

Starting at St Pancreas I was greeted by 3 Eurostars:

We travelled to Brussels and caught the tram from Brussels Midi to Die Brocke. It was not the best journey with heavy suitcases and a packed tram. Still we got there. Anyway due to how busy it was I didn't get any pictures of the tram!

However we did go to Amsterdam on the Thalys the next day and that was great. It was truly a spectacular international rail service. I cannot wait until Britain gets its own proper domestic high speed service like this. Here are a few pictures of the different Thalys trains at Brussels Midi:

In Amsterdam I enjoyed being in the city again, although crossing the street there is somewhat frustrating having to look for cyclists, cars, trams then cars again and finally cyclists. I did quite enjoy seeing the British tourists who had been smoking the Ganje get almost knocked down on sveral occaissions. Here are a few of some of the trams, first a Combino and second I am not sure of the make of the older ones but I would guess at Tatra or something along those lines. Just a guess though. If anyone wants to correct me I would be glad:

The next day we left Brussels to go to Edingen, where I was told is a truly spectacular model shop. There certainly was a great model shop there. Jocadis was well stocked and the staff were EXTREMELY helpful and spoke good English. They had plenty of SNCF in N Gauge for me. I made a few large purchases and had to be on my way. I will post more about these when I have time.

Here is the train we came back from Edingen on:

Reminded me of the 310's in the West Midlands. Very squeeky and old but fantastic and full of charactor. I was very glad to ride on one of these.

The next day was fantastic fun. We caught the Metro to Montgomery:

Then the Number 44 Track to Turveren (can't spell that one properly I suspect!) to go to the Congo museum:

(this tram was the one that left before us, our tram was the same type though!).

On our way back along the line 44 we stopped off at the Tram Museum which lies in Majestic Parkland in the Brussels suburbs. It was closed but I had a good look around and took some pictures:

And here is one of the part of the depot that is still operational. Those trams were very nice to ride on:

Whilst in Brussels I did visit Dream Collection which was a nice model shop. It was quite well stocked and well priced. I purchased a number of items from them as well, their French N Gauge was pretty good for a shop of that size!

They also had models of the trams running through the centre of Brussels, although these were in HO and a bit out of my price range:

Also on the last day a Bristol VR bus pulled up on the street outside our hotel. What an interesting surprise:

I hope you enjoyed reading.

Stephen