The BeerTrain

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...

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 1...

A two person trip to Germany with a day-trip to Prague thrown in, Me (Poodle) & Betty (David Icke - no not THAT David Icke - the other one!) We would be joining up with Neath (Steve Thomas) and Bonty (Clive Muspratt) for most of the trip. # again denotes New Loco. Saturday 20/09/1997 87 033   Crewe - Euston  0945 Liverpool - London Euston 158miles 3102)     Waterloo International - Brussels Midi 1227 Waterloo I - Brussels 377km 3103) 2721       Brussels Midi - Aachen 1654 Brussels Midi - Köln 159km 110 454  Aachen - Köln  1654 Brussels Midi - Köln 70km Rather than the usual scratch moves around Cologne prior to the overnight we met up with Neath & Bonty then headed to the Früh brewery tap where we had arranged to meet Chris Fudge and a group of his fellow 47 Bashers who were embarking on a German beer trip. We certainly kept the Kobes busy as the beer comes in 0.2litre "Test Tubes" & we are more used to drinkin...

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  ...