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...

Another single manned trip, new track Diesel hauled and trying to get my last required narrow gauge route for service train, Gmund to Gross Gerungs (due to close the following week) being the main aims. N ew engines marked with # Although never having anything out of Gmund on the narrow gauge I only needed 1 of their 3 locos, 2095 012 (my last one to clear the class) as I'd quite jammily had both the other 2 on Ober Grafenburg - Wieselburg running in turns (a year apart) after they had received overhauls. I had decided to base myself for 2 nights in a B&B in Schwarzenau, a major junction with 2 branch lines 24km south of Gmund - just in the hope that something might drop, all booked narrow gauge services in the hands of single car Dmu's. Thursday 24/05/01 91107#     Doncaster - Peterborough  1137 Bradford F.S - Kings Cross 80miles Unit         Peterborough - Stansted Airport Shuttle 1  Stansted Terminal - Stansted Departur...