"At Kalkumer Schlossallee 1 you will find the perfect location for your celebration. Whether it is a wedding, company party or birthday, here in the historic railway building"
"Admittedly, our first railway photos in the early 1970s with a Kodak Instamatic still needed improvement. Our first shared passion was initially more about model building, which we unfortunately had to give up due to lack of space."
"Wolter82.de is a private German photographic archive about trams, buses and other public transport. It brings together images from numerous cities and countries, including Germany, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland and Italy. The photographs show modern and historic vehicles, regular services, museum routes, special trips, depots and events, with details of location, route, fleet number and date."
"Extensive photo galleries from Cologne, other German cities, and several European countries. The images are organized by country, city, route, and vehicle, and are often accompanied by details such as fleet number, vehicle type, route, location, and date."
Private homepages
Fahrszeuglisten By: Martin Rimmele. Language: English, German.
"Fahrzeuglisten.de is a German hobby website offering extensive fleet lists for transport operators in Germany and other countries. The database covers regional railways, S-Bahn, underground, light rail, trams, buses, and ferries and can be filtered by region and transport mode. The site also provides a bus chassis-number database, although some fleet lists are several years old."
"lightrail.de shows various historical route network plans, mainly from the Ruhr area, from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. These include trams that have long since been closed down, such as the Vestische, Wuppertal, Bremerhaven, Kiel, and Hamburg."
"Miastoeksplorator.pl is a Polish hobby website offering map overlays of electric public transport networks in cities worldwide. It provides downloadable KMZ files for Google Earth and Google Maps covering trams, metro systems, trolleybuses, urban and suburban railways, and funiculars. Each city page includes a short network description, images, and editable layers showing the geographical extent of the routes."
"In Germany, especially up until the 1950s, several railway companies have since ceased operations entirely or reduced their capacity. This was due to the sometimes high costs of maintaining operations, the impending investments in new rolling stock, and the dilapidated rail network."
"Thomas Fehr’s private German website about trams. It presents photographs of tram systems in Dresden and many other cities worldwide, including both historic and modern vehicles. The site also contains galleries, information about vehicle types and subjects, and a selection of tram postcards that can be ordered directly from the creator."
"A Danish blog featuring tram photos, organized by country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Germany. It links to image collections from cities and tram systems, including Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus, Malmö, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Flensburg, Kiel, Hamburg, and the former DDR. The author is Dennis Persson, affiliated with Sporvejsmuseet Skjoldenæsholm."
"VRR is the official website of Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, which coordinates public transport across much of North Rhine-Westphalia. It provides journey planning, timetables, network maps, fares, ticket information and current service updates for buses, trams, light rail, S-Bahn and regional trains. The site also covers the Deutschlandticket, mobility guarantee, accessibility, transport projects and customer service."