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"Excuse me - is this a private party?" or A long awaited revisit to Franconia. 16/04/2024 to 20/04 2024.

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Over 5 years since my last visit to Bavaria, with a little bit of Franconia thrown in (last visited over 17 years ago!), it was going to be a pub outing (from Heaven & Ale, Barnsley) but striking Railway workers (both here & in Germany), added to a Lufthansa ground-crew dispute put paid to that. Single manned then! Tuesday 16th April 2024 To avoid the above disputes I would have to travel down to Stansted Airport to get a (Ryanair) flight to Nuremberg, this added an additional overnight stay in Cambridge so involved an extra hotel, luckily my Priv railway passes meant this was the only additional cost involved. Unit  Barnsley - Wakefield Kirkgate 1717 Nottingham - Leeds 11miles Unit   Wakefield Kirkgate -  Wakefield Westgate 1840 Knottingley - Leeds 1mile I'd spotted that the 1945 ex Leeds was consisted with the booked class 91 so headed to Wakefield. I killed the 50 minute wait with a pint in the excellent Harrys Bar, followed by another in the quirkily...

Germany 18/05 to 24/05 2006 "Simon Brazel's 50th Birthday"

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A trip to celebrate Simon Brazels birthday - his Fiftieth. A large drinking party of the 3 Brazels Simon, Sean & David, with at least Trog, Betty, Howey (armed with an advance copy of Neath's Good Beer Guide Germany) & myself. Not for the feint hearted! (New locos again denoted by #). Thursday 18/05/2006 I actually flew to Linz as required track had appeared as the Krems - Linz now ran direct instead of via St.Valentin. 1144 270#  Hörsching - Linz       1559 Attnang Pucheim - Linz 10km Unit            Linz - Grein Stadt     1706 Linz - St Nikola Studen 62km 2043 016    Grein Stadt - Linz     1701 Krems - Linz 62km Quite a few hours here I wonder what I did - of course Beers (& a little food) in the brewpub! 101 090#    Linz - München Ost  2030 Budapest - München 280km Daily Total = 414km Friday 19/05/2006 A whole morning in Munchen to kill - Rabbits! Increase my Klik...