The BeerTrain

A trip to Vienna to do an OBB Nostalgiezug to Keszthely, lots of required track for an Austrian loco and planned to be an OBB 2050 diesel throughout. We flew in on the 5th for 2 nights in Vienna. Friday 06/06/2008 Some pre-breakfast moves: 2016004#  Wien Sud - Wiener Neustadt  0542 Wien Sud - Wiener Neustadt 50km                   (Via Baden) 2016004    Wiener Neustadt - Wien Sud  0632 Wiener Neustadt - Wien Sud 56km                   (Via Ebenfurth & Achau) Some new track under the wires for diesel done there. 1044064    Wien Sud - Wien Meidling 0747 Wien Sud - Passau 4km 2016043#  Wien Meidling - Wien Sud 0640 Aspang Markt - Wien Sud 4km A day with the wife doing the more touristy side of Vienna, taking in some castles and gardens along the way. Followed by a night at the Theatre to watch Ben Elton's Queen epic "We will Rock You", very good fun it was t...

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...

 A two pronged attack of various Countries, with a main aim of M61 madness followed by another visit to the Oktoberfest in Munich.Me (Poodle) & Betty (David Icke - no not THAT David Icke - the other one!). # again denotes New Loco. Wednesday 25/09/96 90009  Crewe - Euston 1245 Liverpool Lime Street - Euston 158miles   Eurostar set 3005 at Waterloo International on the 0953 to Paris 07/09/1994. This was an invite only trial run, one of a series to ready the operators & onboard staff before the start of the passenger services in November 1994. 3006 was on the rear, we had a very nice free breakfast enroute.                                  3206#) Waterloo International - Paris Nord 1715 Waterloo Int. - Paris Nord 494km 3205#) No Tunnel riots today so able to make our booked overnight 72048# Paris Est - Belfort 2237 Paris Est - Buchs 443km A Compo to ourselves that'll do nicely ...

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  ...