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 DB land with the emphasis firmly on new track for Diesel, especially now that 218's had spread their wings a lot further into areas of the former East Germany. # denotes any winner locos gleaned during the trip. 12/11/01 3106           Waterloo International – Brussels   1227 Waterloo Int – Brussels   377km        1601           Brussels – Köln   1544 Ostende – Köln    229km A couple of hours here for food and drink before continuing the leap. 120 131#   Köln – Nürnberg   1910 Brussels Midi - Wien   461km Daily Total   = 1067 KM 13/11/01 101 133#   Nürnberg – Schwäbish Hall Hesenthal    2125 Dresden – Stuttgart   113km 218 360     Schwäbish Hall Hesenthal – Heilbronn    0600 Schwabish H..H. -  Heilbronn  61km I'm sure I'd done Schwabisch H.H. to Heilbronn a few times be...

An outward trip with Neath (Steve Thomas) to Germany, with the main aims for myself of various new track for diesel, before meeting up with Neath again for a day, partly to cover a new class 217 diagram - a Mondays Only pilot turn from Schwandorf to Regensburg, the first time the class had appeared on booked passenger work since we'd started bashing in the Fatherland. # denotes new Locos. Saturday 20/04/91 We did the overnight cross channel ferry, being the usual means of getting to Europe after a Friday at work in the offices above Waterloo station. You normally got into Ostend about 0315 - time for a couple of beers in the hellfire Titanic bar (open 24 hours) just down the road . I then did my normal move in Belgium - catch up on some sleep whilst collecting more mileage behind a rateable 1600 electric. 1603        Oostende - Düren      0532 Oostende - Köln 311km 212 270 at Duren on the 0919 to Neuss.Photo courtesy of Neath (Steve Thomas). ...