Germany 29/08 to 01/09 1992 "Short trip - Short report."

A single manned trip to Germany with the main aims of new track for diesel to Soltau & Uelzen, then a tilt at the 217 diagrams on the Furth Im Wald line as I'd only had ONE so far! Oh, and I would be meeting other members of the roadshow for beers in Bamberg, beer Capital of the world. (New locos again denoted by #)

Saturday 29/08/1992

1802        Ostend - Koln Hbf  0634 Ostend - Koln Hbf 350km
103 172# Koln Hbf - Hannover Hbf 1103 Koln - Bad Harzburg 326km
Well, that was a long way to leap - a bit of time to kill before the track bash.
141 322# Hannover Hbf - H.Leinhausen 1354 Celle - Minden 6km
141 071# H.Leinhausen - Hannover Hbf 1408 Minden - Celle 6km
218 249# Hannover Hbf - Soltau 1336 Bad Harzburg - Soltau 88km
218 242# Soltau - Uelzen 1718 Soltau - Uelzen 52km
Both winning locos for the above new track for Diesel, done in daylight thanks to the time of year.
120 111# Uelzen - Luneburg 0948 Oberstdorf - Hamburg Altona 36km
218 338# Luneburg - Lubeck 1855 Luneburg - Lubeck 79km
218 456)  Lubeck - Bad Oldsloe 2005 Lubeck - Hamburg Hbf 23km
218 332)
218 244)  Bad Oldsloe - Reinfeld 2016 Hamburg Hbf - Lubeck 8km
218 458)
218 427   Reinfeld - Hamburg Hbf 2033 L.Travelmundestrasse - Hamburg Hbf 54km
103 244   Hamburg Hbf - Hannover Hbf 2233 Hamburg Altona - München 177km
Daily Total = 1205km

Sunday 30/08/1992

??? ???     Hannover Hbf - Augsburg 2233 Hamburg Altona - München 543km
103 105# Augsburg - Ulm Hbf 0621 München - Karlsruhe 84km
110 178   Ulm Hbf - Neu Ulm 0740 Ulm - Regensburg 2km
218 469   Neu Ulm - Ulm Hbf 0619 Kempten - Ulm 2km
Now 2 good runs through the forests and mountains, I can't recall if any new track was involved though:
218 419# Ulm Hbf - Herbertingen 0835 Ulm - Tuttlingen 76km
218 468   Herbertingen - Immendingen 0634 Munchen - Freiburg 69km
111 101# Immendingen - Singen 0534 Kassel Hbf - Konstanz 30km
Time for some more fun along the shores of Lake Bodensee, no little 211's today as it was a Sunday.
218 395   Singen - Uberlingen Ost 1016 Basel Bad - Lindau 37km
218 305   Uberlingen Ost - Thayngen 1136 Lindau - Basel Bad 48km
218 302# Thayngen - Singen 1216 Basel Bad - Lindau 11km
218 288# Singen - Gottmadingen 1418 Singen -Schaffhausen 5km
215 005# Gottmadingen - Singen 1318 Erzingen - Singen 5km
Now a new idea - new track for electric hauled down the branch to Konstanz
143 930# Singen - Konstanz 1130 Karlsruhe - Konstanz 30km
139 316# Konstanz - Radolfzell 1530 Konstanz - Singen 20km
218 448   Radolfzell - Freidrichshafen Stadt 1416 Basel Bad - Lindau 59km
218 407)  Freidrichshafen Stadt - Aulendorf 1554 Feldkirch - Trier 41km
218 418)#
218 289)  Aulendorf - Ravensburg 1351 Saarbrucken - Lindau 22km
218 450)#
218 414# Ravensburg - Ulm Hbf 1804 Lindau - Ulm Hbf 84km
110 175# Ulm Hbf - Stuttgart 2010 Ulm Hbf - Stuttgart 94km
Then a nice Diesel overnight
218 209   Stuttgart - Hof 2220 Stuttgart - Leipzig 356km
Daily Total = 1628km

Monday 31/08/1992

Thankfully NOT a Bank Holiday over in Germany, so all the normal weekday workings produced.
218 199#  Hof - Weiden 0441 Hof - Weiden 93km
218 209    Weiden - Schwandorf 0513 Hof - München 44km
Winner track to Furth Im Wald, behind a winning 217 to boot.
217 017#  Schwandorf - Cham 0715 Schwandorf - Furth im Wald 48km
217 018 & 217 017 at Cham on the 0715 Schwandorf - Furth im Wald.
This was a loco swop-out move for Fuel, both locos working to Furth & the fresh loco dropping onto freight there.
217 018)# Cham - Furth im Wald 0715 Schwandorf - Furth im Wald 19km
217 017) 
217 018 at Furth Im Wald on the 0848 to Nurnberg
217 018    Furth im Wald - Sulzbach Rosenberg 0848 Furth im Wald - Nurnberg 105km
218 221)   Sulzbach Rosenberg - Schwandorf 0958 Nurnberg - Schwandorf 38km
218 211) 
Time to kill before more new track from Weiden to Neukirchen, also now handily diagrammed to be a 217.
218 230#  Schwandorf - Weiden 1119 Regensberg - Weiden 44km
218 237    Weiden - Windischeschenbach 1237 Weiden - Hof 16km
211 313#  Windischeschenbach - Weiden 1153 Hof - Weiden 16km
232 617#  Weiden - Marktredwitz 1047 München - Gorlitz 51km
211 317    Marktredwitz - Weiden 1353 Hof - Weiden 51km
217 003 at Weiden on the 1541 to Neukirchen
Excellent, a winner and the first of our group to do the line - until a couple of minutes before departure when Trog also rolled up for it. Oh well.....
217 003#  Weiden - Neukirchen 1541 Weiden - Neukirchen 52km
217 003 at Neukirchen off the 1541 from Weiden, not overtaxed on Load 1 ! 
218 227#  Neukirchen - Nurnberg 1640 Weiden - Nurnberg 45km
111 210    Nurnberg - Bamberg 1528 München - Coburg 62km
As usual we would often try to arrange evening beers in Bamberg when there were a few of us in the country. Tonight was no exception!
141 050#  Bamberg - Nurnberg 2250 Bamberg - Nurnberg 62km
Daily Total = 746km

Tuesday 01/09/1992

218 420#  Nurnberg - Hof 2220 Stuttgart - Leipzig 166km
Always a good idea to have a skinful after a few overnights & try to leap somewhere in the middle of the night - yes I woke up the wrong side of the former border with East Germany, how do I get back to the UK from here?
??? ???    Hof - Plauen 2220 Stuttgart - Leipzig 49km
218 003   Plauen - Reichenbach 2328 München - Dresden 24km
232 656# Reichenbach - Plauen 0500 Zwickau - Karlovy Vary 24km
232 182# Plauen - Hof 0535 Zwickau - München 49km
218 212# Hof - Nurnberg 0734 Hof - Nurnberg 167km
120 117# Nurnberg - Frankfurt 1018 Nurnberg - Kiel 238km
103 ???   Frankfurt - Koln Hbf 1018 Nurnberg - Kiel 224km
And relax.
1806       Koln Hbf - Ostend 1517 Koln Hbf - Ostend 350km
Daily Total = 1242km

Total KM = 4821 Total Moves = 55

Daily Average = 1205km Average Per Move = 87km

A rather short trip, I think the lure of another gathering in Bamberg for an evening of superb beer swung me into action, plus the chance to cover some more required track and a few more 217's. I also proved that you can over-doss but still make work the next day (unlike a couple of times previously.....) even if it is straight off the overnight Ferry!

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