The Golden Arrow was the finest day train connecting London with Paris. After the end of steam from London Waterloo, Calais was the nearest mainline steam shed to London.

Steam in Belgium included this exciting express from Ostend to Brussel. Steam in Belgium finished by 1961, long before France or Germany.

Rhenish Railways had these British built engines and once carried the mail from London to Berlin. Silting and war damage consigned this route to history.

Holland Railways were a little further north linking the Hook, ferry port from Harwich, to Rotterdam and Germany.

German railways retained steam into the 1980's and has much preservation activity still.

English built locomotives again; this is Sweden, and while steam was soon ousted by electric you can still ride the Swedish steam train from Ottawa in Canada (but that will be the subject of another page).