Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Dejvice

This was actually the second shot that I actually took, getting more of the train behind the locomotive.

This is a zoom and crop of Picture 1, giving some more detail, although still not enough to read the number. Cameraphones are pretty pathetic in this regard.

This shot was pure luck. I was sitting in the beer garden at Nadrazi Dejvice with some friends when suddenly I heared a decellerating steam locomotive. I jumped up and started my camcorder, but my cameraphone responded sooner, and so I got this shot. This locomotive was ex-CSD #354.195, built in 1925 by CMK.

I earlier posted a photo of a 1960's-era Volga police car, so here's a 1980's-1990's era GAZ-24-10 Volga taxi. This one's been in use in the area of the Hradcanska metro for many years, although when I first moved to Prague it was still painted white, as in the Communist era. At one time, many of Prague's taxis were Volgas. They can be seen in old documentary footage of Elton John's 1984 visit to Prague, for example, although I've had trouble getting much information on said documentary.

I'm fairly sure that I took these shots in October, or possibly November, of 2007, so some of the flowers hadn't wilted yet. Nadrazi Dejvice, like a number of smaller Czech railway stations, has a number of flower boxes on it, and I realised that this might make a nice composition.