The BeerTrain

Sorry for the heading, just trying to use some of the winner destinations for diesel hauled on this trip together as no pithy title came to mind! Anyway a single-manned trip, I'd been going through the Kursbuch with Graham Belton (Peckham) we had been working out current loco hauled routes that might be finishing with the upcoming Summer timetable so the above 3 were my main objectives (along with Reinheim which I couldn't work into the title!). # = winning loco. Thursday 23/05/91 Flight to Frankfurt to get me in position for the 1517 out of Wiesbaden on what turned out to be the penultimate day that the routes to Westerburg & Au were available. 103 152# Frankfurt Flughafen - Mainz 0729 München - Hannover 29km 218 366# Mainz - Bad Kreuznach 1235 Mainz - St.Wendel 41km 218 362# Bad Kreuznach - Bingerbruck 1312 Bad Kreuznach - Bingerbruck 16km 141 199# Bingerbruck - Mainz Hbf 1323 Oberwesel - Mainz 30km 141 230# Mainz - Wiesbaden Hbf 1438 Mainz - Wiesbaden 10km 216 219# Wiesb...

My first ever single manned trip to Germany, my 3rd trip overall. I had decided to avoid having to watch The Great Escape again on Xmas day or being sardined in a pub on New Years Eve. New track for diesel (in daylight) & of course winning locos being the main aim.(New locos again denoted by #.) Thursday 27/12/1990 No messing today a daytime channel crossing straight onto an overnight. 1603           Ostend - Koln             1702 Ostend - Frankfurt 350km 103 193#    Koln - Mainz              1702 Ostend - Frankfurt 185km 110 461#    Mainz - Frankfurt       1715 Amsterdam - Wien 38km Daily Total = 573km Friday 28/12/1990 103 177#    Frankfurt - Gottingen  1922 Basel - Hamburg Altona 241km A quick leap here to head back south I had a couple of diagrams to cover at Geissen. 103 190#    Gottingen - Geissen   ...

Monday 03/12/18 Down to the Smoke Unit  Barnsley – Sheffield    1238 Barnsley – Sheffield  16miles Unit  Sheffield – St.Pancras 1329 Sheffield – St.Pancras  165miles After recent travel “blips” we decided not to risk the very early start Tuesday that would be required to make our booked Eurostar departure so travelled down today instead. I booked accommodation in Travelodge Kings Cross (356-364 Grays Inn Road WC1X) at late notice so a Super Room cost £124. On arrival at the Hotel about 15:50 I was told that the room won’t be ready for another ten minutes; even though check in starts at 3pm. My wife was not happy with this, however another member of staff told me the room previously ready for us had a lighting fault (flashing on & off) and rang the cleaners upstairs to get a room number, he then checked us in & gave us room cards so we could go up as soon as they got the nod our room was ready. He then wrote a Free Breakfast voucher f...