The BeerTrain

 A two pronged attack of various Countries, with a main aim of M61 madness followed by another visit to the Oktoberfest in Munich.Me (Poodle) & Betty (David Icke - no not THAT David Icke - the other one!). # again denotes New Loco. Wednesday 25/09/96 90009  Crewe - Euston 1245 Liverpool Lime Street - Euston 158miles   Eurostar set 3005 at Waterloo International on the 0953 to Paris 07/09/1994. This was an invite only trial run, one of a series to ready the operators & onboard staff before the start of the passenger services in November 1994. 3006 was on the rear, we had a very nice free breakfast enroute.                                  3206#) Waterloo International - Paris Nord 1715 Waterloo Int. - Paris Nord 494km 3205#) No Tunnel riots today so able to make our booked overnight 72048# Paris Est - Belfort 2237 Paris Est - Buchs 443km A Compo to ourselves that'll do nicely as the class 72 booms away into the night.... Daily Total = 937km Thursday 26/09/96 72038# Belfort -

Time to go to the Fatherland once more in search of new track for Rabbits and the like, (cheap GO flight to  Munich Flughafen   helping no end) with a couple of days in Austria thrown in for good measure. Single manned trip / # denotes new loco Saturday 27/01/01 91025   Doncaster - Peterborough 10xx Leeds – Kings Cross                                               158xxx Peterborough – Stansted Airport  G-1GOC    Stansted Airport – Munchen Flughafen 1745 Stansted – Munchen Flughafen                         S-bahn Munchen Flugh’n – Donnersbergerbruck   218 340 Donnersbergerbruck – Munchen 2004 Bayrichzell – Munchen   81482   2km                        101 016#   Munchen   – Nurnberg 2310 Munchen – Dresden     D1904   199km                         I went out to Donnersbergerbruck to check out if the Bayrichzell / Lenggries service was still Rabbits, I hoped to get gripped to check the validity of FIP boxes for my move at the end of the week. Still hauled, but gripper elsewhere. A meal

This was definitely NOT a single manned trip! Forewarned that the Swiss Railway society were running their special around Greece at the same time as Greek Easter meant a large contingent of 31 bashers / Crompton bashers & a few Peak bashers were all keen to attend. You could pay by the day on the Swiss trip so ideal. Me & Howey had booked our flights while staying in Sibenik on 27th December, the night the flights first came available, thanks to Howey's mate in the UK who did a sterling job for us other the phone. (# = new loco)    Thursday 02/05/02 A positioning move to get us in place for the following days Swiss tour with A206 & A302 . A day of unbelievable hay-fever, especially when we reached Stylis. Not sure who was worse me or Shovel! A483# Athens - Lianokladi 1320 Athens - Stylis 212km A206 at Llianokladi waits to work the Swiss tour of 03/05/02. A302 is in the background. A223 Lianokladi - Stylis 1320 Athens - Stylis 22km A223 at Stylis on the 1704 to Athe