The BeerTrain

A single manned trip including my first ever visit to Austria. New locos again denoted by #. The trip began with the Crompton roadshow on a Gonad charter to Folkestone Harbour behind 33114, I leapt off this then went via Dover for a ferry to Ostend. Saturday 07/12/1991 33114         Finsbury Park - Folkestone Harbour 0613 Potters Bar - Finsbury Park 90miles These were run every Xmas by a Surgeon & were always wedged with drunk nurses (normally on the return leg!) you cannot believe how they festooned the insides of the coaches with all manner of Xmas decorations - they were on their way to do a drunken out & back ferry move. There was also a disco in the Brake van... Boulogne crossed out as I told them I was leaving at Folkestone! 33114 at Folkestone Harbour 2127#       Ostende - Brugge 1604 Ostend - xxxxx * 2719#       Brugge - Brussels Zuid 1634 Ostende - xxxxx * 2554#       Brussels Zuid - Br...

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  ...

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 - Saarb...