Germany & Austria 16/04 to 24/04 1992 "They've re-opened Warmensteinach!"

A trip that began with myself & Neath, for the first few days at least, with the usual remit of as many diesel hauled new lines as possible during daylight hours then the odd electric to get in place for the overnight.(New locos again denoted by #).

Thursday 16/04/1992

1605           Ostende - Liege          0532 Ostend - Koln 227km

5509           Liege - Jemelle           0813 Liege Palais - Jemelle 71km

Unit            Jemelle - Luxemburg  0830 Brussels Nord - Lux 108km

1816           Luxemburg - Trier      1226 Luxemburg - Trier 51km

141 042#    Trier - Trier Sud          1311 Trier - Konz West 1km

141 112      Trier Sud - Saarburg   1243 Wittlich - Serrig 22km 

110 203#    Saarburg - Saarbrucken 1337 Trier - Saarbrucken 65km

212 345#    Saarbrucken - Wemmetsweiler 1450 Saarbrucken - Lebach 18km

212 376      Wemmetsweiler - Neunkirchen 1444 Lebach - Neunkirchen 8km

141 392#    Neunkirchen - Homburg 1531 Neunkirchen - Homburg 16km

141 403#    Homburg - Landstuhl 1547 Homburg - Heilbronn 20km

212 099#    Landstuhl - Kusel 1609 Kaiserslautern - Kusel 29km 

212 099 at Kusel off the 1609 from Kaiserslautern

212 099      Kusel - Landstuhl  1714 Kusel - Landstuhl 29km

143 916#    Landstuhl - Kaiserslauten 1747 Homburg - Mannheim 16km

181 202      Kaiserslauten - Frankfurt  1851 Saarbrucken - Frankfurt 154km

103 115#    Frankfurt - St.Polten 1848 Dortmund - Wien West 694km

Daily Total = 1032km

Friday 17/04/1992

1099 005#  St.Polten - Ober Grafendorf 0730 St.Polten - Mariazell 12km

1099 001#  Ober Grafendorf - St.Polten 0535 Mariazell - St.Polten 12km

I had just arrived behind 1099 001 on the 0535 from Mariazell 

1099 016)# St.Polten - Tradagist 0830 St.Polten - Laubenbachmuhle 29km

1099 014) (on rear/DIT) 

1099 011    Tradagist - St.Polten 0752 Mariazell - St.Polten 29km

1099 006#  St.Polten - Ober Grafendorf 1030 St.P - Laubenbachmuhle 12km

A busy scene at Ober Grafendorf with 2091 004 waiting for any passengers off 1099 006's Laubenbachmuhle service

2091 004#   Ober Grafendorf - Kilb 1053 Ober Grafendorf - Wieselburg 13km

2091 004 waits at Kilb for 2905 011 to arrive

2095 011#  Kilb - Ober Grafendorf 1031 Wieselburg - Ober Grafendorf 13km

Lots of interest at Ober Grafendorf with 1099 010 enroute Mariazell & 1099 011 on a freight / normal gauge wagons on top of narrow gauge transporter bases

1099 011 coupled to the mainline gauge wagons.You can clearly see the accomodation  narrow gauge bogie frames.
1099 016    Ober Grafendorf - St.Polten 1100 Laubenbachmuhle - St.P 12km

1099 014#   St.Polten - Ober Grafendorf 1230 St.P - Laub'muhle 12km

1099 002#   Ober Grafendorf - St.Polten 1100 Mariazell - St.P 12km

1042 563#   St.Polten - Amstetten 1345 St.Polten - St.Valentin 66km

1042 004)#  Amstetten - Waidhofen 1510 Amstetten - Bischofshofen 23km

1042 058)# 

We had been joined by Trog who, prior to this his first ever run behind a 2095, "these locos are too small to be loud" but we had a beast of a driver - Trog's head was out the window throughout! (This did prove to be my best ever run up to Lunz over the years.)

2095 008# Waidhofen - Lunz am Zee 1542 Waidhofen - Lunz 54km

2095 008 arrives at Lunz am Zee with the 1542 from Waidhofen

2095 008    Lunz am Zee - Gstadt 1745 Lunz - Waidhofen 48km

2091 008#  Gstadt - Yybsitz 1902 Gstadt - Ybsitz 6km

2091 008    Yybsitz - Gstadt 1940 Ybsitz - Gstadt 6km

2095 005)# Gstadt - Waidhofen 1845 Lunz - Waidhofen 6km

2091 008 dit) 

4030 013    Waidhofen - Amstetten 1614 Bischofshofen - Amstetten 23km

103 217      Amstetten - Salzburg 1000 Budapest - Paris 191km

1063 021#  Salzburg shunts 

Daily Total = 579km

Saturday 18/04/1992

1044 203#  Salzburg - Wien ?????            2310 Munich - Budapest 317km

Neath & Trog went into Hungary for their first taste of M61 action, they tried to persuade me to go with them but I had enough track to cover in Austria! Still I probably would have gone if I knew how hellfire the M61's were.....

1042 601#  Wien Sud - Wien Meidling     0720 Wien Sud - Wiener Neustadt 4km

1044 064#  Wien Meidling - Wiener Neustadt 0728 Wien Sud - Innsbruck 46km

1042 588#  Wiener Neustadt - Leobersdorf      0631 Murzzuschlag - Wien Sud 15km

1042 699#   Leobersdorf - Wiener Neustadt     0755 Wien Sud - Murzzuschlag 15km

Had a pair of 2143's (in multi) throughout on the 0730 ex Wien Sud from Wiener Neustadt to Graz

2143 025)#  Wiener Neustadt - Graz     0750 Wien Sud - Graz 195km

2143 022)#   

A busy scene at Hartberg, where the branch to Oberwart originates

2043 030#    Graz - Authal                    1232 Graz - Szentgotthard 13km

2043 032 approaches Authal on the 1140 Szentgotthard - Graz

2043 032#    Authal - Graz                     1140 Szentgotthard - Graz 13km

1044 106#    Graz - Bruck a.d Leitha     1330 Graz - Stuttgart 54km

1042 614#    Bruck a.d Leitha - Leoben 1330 Graz - Stuttgart 16km

1042 519#    Leoben - Klagenfurt           1422 Bruck a.d Leitha - Arnoldstein 158km

2043 008#    Klagenfurt - Zeltweg          1704 Klagenfurt - Knittelfeld 127km

An error was made here - I had planned to leap here but could have gone through to Knittelfeld - this track never done diesel hauled!

1044 064      Zeltweg - Wien Sud           1243 Innsbruck - Wien Sud 218km

1044 224#    Wien West - Salzburg        2330 Wien West - Innsbruck 317km

Daily Total = 1508km

Easter Sunday 19/04/1992

1044 227#  Salzburg - St.Polten              2325 Innsbruck - Wien West 257km

2143 038#  St.Polten - Traisen                0559 St.Polten - Leobersdorf 19km

2143 006#  Traisen - St.Polten Alpenbahnhof 0613 Hainfeld - St.Polten 17km

2095 015#  St.Polten Alpenbahnhof - St.Polten 0553 Wieselburg - St.Polten 2km

1099 009    St.Polten - Ober Grafendorf  0730 St.Polten - Mariazell  12km

2095 006 rather ex-works on the 0753 Ober Grafendorf - Wieselburg which I took throughout

2095 006#  Ober Grafendorf - Wieselburg 0753 Ober Grafendorf - Wieselburg 39km

After new track to Wieselburg it was time to leap to St.Valentin & do the route through to Krems & then back to St.Polten

5046 217    Wieselburg - Pochlarn 0839 Kienberg-Gaming - Pochlarn 11km

1044 018#  Pochlarn - Linz 0845 Wien West - Passau 96km

1044 206#  Linz - St.Valentin 0625 Innsbruck - Wien West 24km

2043 013#  St.Valentin - Krems a.d. Donau 1226 St.Valentin - Krems 120km

2143 041#  Krems a.d. Donau - St.Polten 1603 Krems St.Polten 31km

Then more narrow gauge action:

1099 001   St.Polten - Kirchberg a.d. Pielau 1730 St.Polten - Mariazell 31km

1099 002   Kirchberg a.d. Pielau - Ober Grafendorf 1700Mariazell - St.Polten 19km

2095 013# Ober Grafendorf - Kilb 1912 Ober Grafendorf - Wieselburg 13km

2095 006   Kilb - Ober Grafendorf 1907 Ruprechtshofen - Ober Grafendorf 13km

1099 006)  Ober Grafendorf - St.Polten 1756 Mariazell - St.Polten 12km

1099 013 DIT)  

1044 019#  St.Polten - Wien West     1425 Innsbruck - Wien West 60km

???????     Wien West - Regensberg  2230 Wien West - Dortmund 415km  

Daily Total = 1191km

Easter Monday 20/04/1992

Great planning - I ran out of film on a Religious holiday, it was a struggle to even get food over these two days in Germany.......

103 107#    Regensberg - Linz           1848 Dortmund - Wien West 325km

1141 015#  Linz - Wels                      0533 Linz - Salzburg              25km

Never too early in the day for new track for Diesel:

2043 051# Wels - Simbach               0627 Wels - Simbach               95km

218 356#   Simbach - Schwindegg   0800 Simbach - Munchen        60km

218 345#   Schwindegg - Muhldorf  0811 Munchen - Altotting       21km

218 344#   Muhldorf - Munchen       0912 Altotting - Munchen       85km

218 468#   Munchen - Mindelheim   1055 Munchen - Lindau          87km

218 464     Mindelheim - Buchloe     1038 Lindau - Munchen          19km

218 424)    Buchloe - Kempten          1158 Munchen - Bern              63km

218 442)

218 400)    Kempten - Memmingen   1254 Obertsdorf - Munster      35km

218 410)

218 402#   Memmingen - Munchen   1307 Aulendorf - Munchen     114km

Time for more new track

218 313)#  Munchen - Lenggries       1628 Munchen - Lenggries      67km

218 319)#

218 343      Lenggries - Munchen      1743 Lenggries - Munchen      67km

218 354#    Munchen - Munchen Ost 1911 Munchen - Simbach        10km

218 318#    Munchen Ost - Munchen 1833 Muhldorf - Munchen      10km

218 442      Munchen - Kaufbeuren    1955 Munchen - Kempten       88km

218 449#    Kaufbeuren - Buchloe      2005 Fussen - Augsburg          20km

218 410      Buchloe - Kaufbeuren      2050 Munchen - Fussen          20km

Shite           Kaufbeuren - Buchloe      2108 Fussen - Buchloe            20km

218 438)#   Buchloe - Munchen         1839 Zurich - Munchen            68km

218 475)

1044 071    Munchen - Munchen Ost 2350 Munchen - Salzburg        10km

Daily Total = 1309km

Tuesday 21/04/1992

103 184#   Munchen Ost - Stuttgart   1530 Budapest - Paris               249km

??? ???      Stuttgart - Baden Baden    1530 Budapest - Paris               123km

110 111#   Baden Baden - Karlsruhe  xxxx Troop train!                      32km

I can only assume that I over-dossed & got lucky with the Troop Train - I was definitely trying to cover the 212 on the Worth - Ludwigshafen BASF!

218 368#   Karlsruhe - Worth             0601 Karlsruhe - Kaiserslautern 14km

212 210#   Worth - Ludwigshafen      0625 Worth - Ludwigshafen BASF 61km

110 304#    Ludwigshafen - Mannheim 0645 Kaiserslautern - Heidelberg 3km

120 132#    Mannheim - Heidelberg    0626 Saarbrucken - Innsbruck    17km

111 075#    Heidelberg - Bruchsal       0811 Heidelberg - Stuttgart         33km

120 137#    Bruchsal - Karlsruhe         0540 Nunrberg - Karlsruhe         21km

Then onto the Hellfire scenic Freudenstadt line

218 480#    Karlsruhe - Forbach Gausbach 0930 Karlsruhe - Forbach Gausbach 51km

218 296#    Forbach Gausbach - Rastatt 1001 Freudenstadt - Karlsruhe 27km

218 299#    Rastatt - Baiersbronn            1130 Karlsruhe - Freudenstadt 50km

218 298#    Baiersbronn - Horden Ottenau 1300 Freudenstadt - Karlsruhe 37km

218 297#    Horden Ottenau -                  1330 Karlsruhe - Freudenstadt 11km

                   Langenau Bermersbach

218 394      Langenau Bermersbach - Rastatt 1400 Freudenstadt - Karlsruhe 24km

110 193#    Rastatt - Heidelberg              1320 Freiburg - Heidelberg 78km

A carefully planned move to then cover Heidelberg to Heilbronn to Schwabish Hall Hessental diesel hauled

212 215#    Heidelberg - Heilbronn         1655 Heidelberg - Heilbronn 69km

215 052#    Heilbronn - Schwabish Hall Hessental 1807 Heilbronn - Crailsheim 61km

218 200#    Schwabish Hall Hessental - Stuttgart 1937 Crailsheim - Stuttgart 73km

120 132      Stuttgart - Karlsruhe              1848 Munchen - Basel SBB 91km

Then the first of many times I did the Karlsruhe - Basel - Karlsruhe overnight - ideal to drop into a variety of new track / diesel moves. Neath rejoined me for this & tells me it was Compo stock - result! It was Silverfish all the other times I did it.

181 221#    Karlsruhe - Basel Bad Bf       2304 Karlsruhe - Basel Bad Bf  197km

Daily Total = 1322km

Wednesday 22/04/1992

I had poured over the Kursbuch at home prior to the trip & figured out that Neustadt to Freinsheim was, to my mind at least, available loco hauled although not shown in the current loco diagrams - hence the out & back overnight. I had also managed to acquire some more film at Stuttgart Hbf last night.

181 221    Basel Bad Bf - Karlsruhe 0200 Basel Bad Bf - Mannheim 197km

212 091#  Karlsruhe - Neustadt 0503 Karlsruhe - Neustadt 58km

212 091    Neustadt - Freinsheim 0613 Neustadt - Freinsheim 21km

212 091 at Freinsheim on the 0613 from Neustadt 22/04/92. New track for loco hauled, no gen just carefull observation of the timetable & pot luck.

212 091    Freinsheim - Neustadt 0703 Freinsheim - Neustadt 21km

181 205    Neustadt - Mannheim 0641 Saarbrucken - Leipzig 31km

Neath leapt here to cover the 212 on the 1007 Heilbronn - Karlsruhe before the line went over to trams.

103 134#  Mannheim - Basel bad Bf 0732 Wiesbaden - Brig 123km 

I'd been informed that the branch to Zell was going over to 628's shortly so a rare move - new track for electric haulage.

141 177#  Basel Bad Bf - Zell 1051 Basel Bad - Zell 29km

141 177 at Zell forming the 1133 to Basel Bad Bf

141 177    Zell - Basel Bad Bf 1133 Zell - Basel Bad 29km

103 134    Basel Bad Bf - Freiburg 0939 Interlaken Ost - Berlin 62km

The mammoth that was the Freiburg - Munchen threw up my old "friend" 218 464. 

218 464    Freiburg - Sigmaringen 1312 Freiburg - Munchen 147km

215 142 at Sigmaringen on the 1627 to Tubingen (all new track for diesel)

215 142    Sigmaringen - Tubingen 1627 Sigmaringen - Tubingen 87km

Less than chuffed that the 215 was also dud - but the new track & scenery made up for it.

111 047#  Tubingen - Reutlingen 1818 Tubingen - Plochingen 14km

111 050#  Reutlingen - Plochingen 1834 Tubingen - Stuttgart 35km

212 349#  Plochingen - Kirkheim (Tech) 1942 Plochingen - Kirkheim (Tech) 13km

212 040    Kirkheim (Tech) - Plochingen 1945 Oberlenningen - Plochingen 13km

103 166    Plochingen - Stuttgart 1618 Salzburg - Karlsruhe 22km

Probably a few Schwartz (Black) beers in the Old Ascot Inn Heavy Metal pub Stuttgart

218 237    Stuttgart - Marktredwitz 2221 Stuttgart - Dresden/Leizig 305km

Daily Total = 1084km

Thursday 23/04/1992

218 223    Marktredwitz - Regensburg         2227 Dresden - Munchen 137km

218 223    Regensburg - Schwandorf            0542 Regensburg - Weiden 42km

218 224#  Schwandorf - Maxhutte Haddorf 0545 Weiden - Regensburg 15km

218 202#  Maxhutte Haddorf - Weiden        0629 Regensburg - Weiden 59km

218 202    Weiden - Hof                               0805 Weiden - Hof 93km

218 223    Hof - Marktredwitz                      0945 Hof - Nurnberg 42km

218 005#  Marktredwitz - Kirkenlaibach     1023 Marktredwitz - Kirkenlaibach 31km

796 712    Kirkenlaibach - Bayreuth            1051 Kirkenlaibach - Bayreuth 19km

211 052    Bayreuth - Warmensteinach        1119 Bayreuth - Warmensteinach 23km

211 052 at Warmensteinach off the 1119 from Bayreuth 23/04/92. Had difficulty in doing the line loco hauled, mainly because the service kept getting suspended due to subsidence on a viaduct.

The branch only ran to Warmensteinach for another 8 months.

211 052    Warmensteinach - Bayreuth 1220 Warmensteinach - Bayreuth 23km

A blurred shot of 211 039 at Bayreuth taken from 211 052's train as I clearly didn't have time for a traditional photo or would have missed the train

211 039#  Bayreuth - Pegnitz 1310 Bayreuth - Pegnitz 27km

614 017    Pegnitz - Nurnberg 1359 Pegnitz - Nurnberg 67km

218 211#  Nurnberg - Hersbruck (r Pegnitz) 1520 Nurnberg - Bayreuth 28km

218 229    Hersbruck (r Pegnitz) - Reichenschwand 1550 Hersbruck (rP) - Nurnberg 4km

211 037#  Reichenschwand - Hersbruck (rP) 1530 Nurnberg - Bayreuth 4km

218 006    Hersbruck (rP) - Nurnberg 1525 Bayreuth - Nurnberg 28km

111 006    Nurnberg - Furth (Bay) 1649 Nurnberg - Bamberg 8km

211 022#  Furth (Bay) - Markt Erlbach 1706 Furth - Markt Erlbach 28km

Although this move had been in the diagrams for a while a plus 2mins onto the last train of the day back looked risky! That was until Peckham (Graham Belton) did it & found the guard off the 1706 had to use his key to release the route for the 1754 to depart - so always makes!

211 044    Market Erlbach - Furth (Bay) 1754 Markt Erlbach - Furth (Bay) 28km

111 223#  Furth (Bay) - Bamberg 1528 Munchen - Coburg 54km

Evening in the Spezial brewpub. The best Rauchbier in the world.

141 021    Bamberg - Nurnberg 2252 Bamberg - Nurnberg 62km

141 021    Nurnberg - Neumarkt 2358 Nurnberg - Neumarkt 37km

Was supposed to leap at Nuremburg for an overnight to Cologne but woke up in Neumarkt carriage sidings - Oh well a day late getting back to work then!  

Daily Total = 859km

Friday 24/04/1992

141 021    Neumarkt - Nurnberg 0427 Neumarkt - Nurnberg 37km

103 153#  Nurnberg - Frankfurt  0516 Nurnberg - Westerland 238km

103 234    Frankfurt - Mainz       0516 Nurnberg - Westerland 40km

218 378    Mainz - Ingleheim      0837 Mainz - St.Wendel 18km

218 379    Ingleheim - Mainz      0654 Saarbrucken - Frankfurt 18km

120 103#  Mainz - Koln              0811 Suttgart - Dortmund 185km

1605         Koln - Ostende           1217 Koln - Ostende 350km

Daily Total = 886km

Total KM = 9770km                          Daily Average = 1085km

Total Moves = 155                              Average per Move = 63km

A Fantastic trip to two countries where the majority of local routes could still be covered loco hauled, even if you had to carefully check the diagrams - and still a chance of doing some routes with no "known" workings if you checked the timetables thoroughly. Add to that the fantastic beer offerings available in Germany when most in the UK were still oblivious to them - what's not to like!