Simbach , Sessions & too many Possessions!
With 8 Rest Days looming on the horizon and the December 14th Timetable change fast approaching,
a trip to the Fatherland to rake in any required track for diesel seemed the only option.
As I would be travelling single manned I decided to take it easy & only do overnights every other night and not be as desperate as normal! To this end I obtained as much brewery gen as I could gather for the areas I would be visiting and off I set for the airport.
As usual, # indicates a required loco. All moves in KM’s (except in UK indicated m for miles).
Thursday 21/11/02
91104 Doncaster – Peterborough 0526 Newcastle – Kings Cross 80m
Unit Peterborough – Ely 0642 Nottingham – Norwich 30m
Unit Ely - Stansted Airport 0636 B’ham New St – Stansted A. 39m
EI-xxx Stansted Airport – Frankfurt Hahn 1125 Stansted - Frankfurt Hahn
Bus Frankfurt Hahn – Kirn 1430 Frankfurt Hahn - Kirn
218367# Kirn – Idar Oberstein 1435 Mainz – Saarbrucken 14
218363# Idar Oberstein – Gensingen Horrweiler 1502 Saarbrucken - Mainz 59
218369# Gensingen Horrweiler – Bad Kreuznach 1635 Mainz – Saarbrucken 8
(141224 DIT)
Cart Bad Kreuznach – Mainz 1617 Idar Oberstein – Mainz 41
218411 Mainz – Nieder Olm 1817 Mainz – Alzey 18
218420 Nieder Olm – Mainz 1827 Alzey – Mainz 18
120152# Mainz – Karlsruhe 1530 Munster – Karlsruhe 146
(Via Darmstadt & Heilbronn)
Cart Karlsruhe – Stuttgart 2317 Karlsruhe – Stuttgart 91
Peterborough was cold and draughty so I cut down the fester by doing the Norwich unit as far as Ely, not realising someone had built a Safeway’s outside the station since I had last alighted there ( how many years ago?) so a quick fried breakfast was caned in.
A couple of pints of Guinness to follow whilst waiting in the new Ryanair lounge at Stansted Airport for a right-time departure.
Frankfurt Hahn’s website shows a bus route to Kirn on the Mainz – Saarbrucken line but no departure times so the first move was to view the bus stops outside, yielding a very handy 1430 bus, so back into the Airport Bar for a half litre of wheat beer.
I had decided to cover some Kaiserslauten 218 diagrams as I’ve never had much luck with them and still needed quite a few, with the added bonus of not having to suffer the bus journey into Frankfurt.
I could not believe needing the first loco to roll in – needing three on the trot finished me completely!
I then dropped down to Karlsruhe to position myself for the Orient Express overnight (EN263) and walked into town to sample a few beers. I was unable to find any of the brewpubs but did come across a tied house for one local brewery, four different beers on and top nosh.
This was all a prelude to a disaster – the overnight was stuck somewhere in France! So we were all put onto a crappy 425 unit to Stuttgart for two single car shires to Plochingen where the Dortmund – Wien West (EN213) overnight was stopped additionally to pick us up. Cheers, two hours sleep!
Friday 22/11/02
Cart Stuttgart – Plochingen 0045 Stuttgart – Tubingen 22
101043# Plochingen – Munchen Ost 1902 Dortmund – Wien West 227
S-Bahn Munchen Ost – Munchen
120114# Munchen – Augsburg 0523 Munchen – Dortmund 62
218443} Augsburg – Munchen 0605 Augsburg – Munchen 62
218439}
218231 Munchen – Buchloe 0719 Munchen – Obertsdorf 68
218226 Buchloe – Kaufering 0701 Fussen – Munchen 12
218318 Kaufering – Buchloe 0751 Munchen – Leutkirch 12
Cart Buchloe – Geltendorf 0644 Lindau – Munchen 26
218202 Geltendorf – Buchloe 0851 Munchen – Fussen 26
218225 Buchloe – Kaufering 0808 Obertsdorf – Munchen 12
218341 Kaufering – Buchloe 0919 Munchen – Obertsdorf 12
218464 Buchloe – Kaufering 0905 Fussen – Munchen 12
Cart Kaufering – Geltendorf 0845 Lindau – Munchen 14
218237 Geltendorf – Weilheim 1042 Augsburg – Weilheim 33
218237 Weilheim – Schongau 1228 Weilheim – Schongau 24
218237 Schongau – Weilheim 1303 Schongau – Weilheim 24
218237 Weilheim – Geltendorf 1343 Weilheim – Augsburg 33
218232# Geltendorf – Munchen 1308 Fussen – Munchen 42
111173 Munchen – Freising 1527 Munchen – Passau 42
218311# Freising – Neufarn 1638 Freising – Straubing 57
111199# Neufarn – Regensburg 1626 Munchen – Regensburg 39
Todays main aims were to do three pieces of new track for diesel, Augsburg – Munchen,
Weilheim – Schongau & Muhldorf – Simbach. Neither loco was required on the Augsburg – Munchen, this being followed by NO new locos on any of the turns covered around Buchloe!
A quick beer was caned in over the road from Geltendorf station after a quick Spar shop visit, only to see 218232 (required!) in the station on my return. I couldn’t do it as the track to Schongau was more pressing, however I noticed it was diagrammed back into Munich at 1507 so I decided to have it later. A plus two from one side of Munich Hbf station to the other was never going to make so I decided Simbach would have to wait for another day!
So I texted Betty for accommodation & brewery directions in Regensburg and went out to cover the Freising to Straubing diesel turn. This was a great bonus move as not only was the 218 required, when I got home I found I also required the track for diesel from Freising to Landshut!
After checking into the hotel Zum Frohlichen Turken it was a short walk to the Joh Albrecht brewery where the wheat beer was sampled. A bit further (in what was now a downpour) to the Spittal brewery (founded AD1226!) where several fine beverages and a top meal were consumed. A final drop of Ale in the Kneitinger brewery and a slow wobble back to the digs. Very merry, however no early start to worry about!
Saturday 23/11/02
218189 } Regensburg – Hof 0922 Regensburg – Hof 179
218275#}
218212} Hof – Marktredwitz 1007 Leipzig – Nurnberg 42
218183}
218407 } Marktredwitz – Zwickau 1322 Regensburg – Zwickau 96
218245#}
218245} Zwickau – Reichenbach 1712 Zwickau – Regensburg 23
218407}
218183} Reichenbach – Leipzig 1535 Nurnberg – Leipzig 97
218212}
112174# Leipzig – Halle 2125 Dresden – Munchen 38
101054# Halle – Nurnberg 2125 Dresden – Munchen 330
An uninterrupted day bashing pairs of Rabbits (nickname for 218's), only the required track from just outside Zwickau to Leipzig to worry about. An excellent start, 218275 (new) on the rear!
I was supposed to do the Leipzig based pair through to Nurnberg and back for the kliks but decided the Nothhaft brewery in Marktredwitz was a better way of spending a couple of hours!
Quick gen text to Betty as I couldn’t find it, then the beers flowed. It also meant I could cover the second Regensburg pair – and another required bunny produced! Far from expected but I wasn’t going to say no.
So a fill-in move to Zwickau before picking up the Leipzig train for the new track.
A few texts flew to and thro between myself & all those merrily doing a Bathams pub crawl around the Black country, before I made my way to the Bayerischer Bahnhof brewery in Leipzig housed in the old Bayerischer Bahnhof station, as the name suggests, for more beers & a schweinhaxe (sorry Betty!).
All capped off with a nicely empty overnight through to Stuttgart.
Sunday 24/11/02
364510# Nurnberg shunt 2125 Dresden – Munchen 1
120105 Nurnberg – Stuttgart 0425 Nurnberg – Stuttgart 203
(Via Ansbach)
110400# Stuttgart – Ludwigsburg 0705 Stuttgart – Wurzburg 14
110242# Ludwigsburg – Stuttgart 0654 Heilbronn – Stuttgart 14
101098# Stuttgart – Karlsruhe 0538 Nurnberg – Karlsruhe 101
(Via Bruchsal)
101041# Karlsruhe – Freiburg 0722 Wiesbaden – Brig 135
218480 Freiburg – Gunzenhausle 1008 Freiburg – Elzach 14
218388# Gunzenhausle – Freiburg 1008 Elzach – Freiburg 14
ICE Frieburg – Karlsruhe 1202 Basel – Hamburg Altona 135
Cart Karlsruhe – Worth 1535 Karlsruhe – Worth 20
Bus Worth – Winden
218411 Winden – Monsheim 1633 Wissembourg – Mainz 80
(Via Neustadt, Freinsheim & Bad Durkheim)
Cart Monsheim – Worms
A day leading me to believe that someone in the Karlsruhe area had it in for me!
I dropped down to Freiburg to cover the two 218 turns as I need half the Haltingen allocation, one new rabbit producing. I then went for a stroll around the towns three breweries. The Kleines Freiburger Brauhaus didn’t open until 17:00 so I continued on to Hausbrauerei Feierling where I sampled two of their three brews (too early in the day for their Bock beer!). I stayed until I had fully dried off as once again the heavens had opened, then made my way to Martins Brau (underground, just through the gate in the city wall by Mcdonalds!) where the beer and food were both excellent.
Then the move was to get to Winden in time for the 218 shuttle to Wissembourg, various bits of new track Wissembourg to Monsheim. However we were all sat on the cart at Worth when the driver shut it down. Somewhat concerned I asked a DB bod what was going on – bus from outside the station!
Leapt outside with the rest of the passengers in hot pursuit – bus already gone! The air was blue.
Winden to Wissembourg now still required, cheers then.
Deep depression. No pubs in Monsheim (50 min fester!). Most hotels shut in Worms.
Then I found the hotel Kriemhilde right next to the Dom, booked in and off on my toes to the Hagenbrau brewpub on the river. The evening was loads better than the afternoon!
Monday 25/11/02
218365# Worms – Mainz 0640 Worms – Idar Oberstein 46
101055# Mainz – Wurzburg 0547 Koln – Budapest 176
218271 Wurzburg – Lauda 0955 Wurzburg – Bad Murgetheim 43
110307# Lauda – Wurzburg 0905 Stuttgart – Wurzburg 43
120126# Wurzburg – Munchen 0640 Dortmund – Munchen 277
218358 Munchen – Simbach 1509 Munchen – Simbach 124
2043022# Simbach – Neumarkt Kalham 1707 Simbach – Neumarkt Kalham 64
1016015# Neumarkt Kalham – Wels 1820 Riedau – Wels 43
101055# Wels – Nurnberg 1916 Wien – Brussels 301
First move of the day was required track under the wires for diesel between Worms & Mainz Sud – finished straight away by the new bunny!
Then to Wurzburg for new track for diesel to Lauda (although I nearly ended up in Hamburg as I watched 103167 (new) attach to the 0641 IR from Karlsruhe to Hamburg Altona at Frankfurt Hbf!) but I just managed to avoid leaping onto it! Lots of action at Lauda, a 212 came in on a freight and ran round, lots of photos of it & another 218 on an Aschaffenburg train.
Then a fast IC to Munchen for a quick Erdinger Weissbier then the 218 to Simbach. Last branch for diesel in the Muhldorf area (unless a diesel ever goes to Rosenheim!) and a required 2043 forward to boot.
Then a walk around Wels to find the Gerstl brewery, beer not as tasty as some but a top meal.
That was followed by a nice Austrian compo to myself to Koln, finishing the day off nicely.
Tuesday 26/11/02
101089# Nurnberg – Koln 1916 Wien – Brussels 461
101044# Koln – Essen Hbf 0609 Karlsruhe – Hamburg Altona 83
218247# Essen Hbf – Essen Holthausen 0710 Essen – Wuppertal 8
218138# Essen Holthausen – Essen Hbf 0714 Langenberg – Essen 8
Cart Essen Hbf – Essen Kupferdreh 0750 Essen – Langenberg 11
218149 Essen Kupferdreh – Essen Hbf 0806 Langenberg – Borken 11
218138 Essen Hbf – Essen Kupferdreh 0850 Essen – Langenberg 11
218126 Essen Kupferdreh – Nierenhof 0832 Borken – Langenberg 6
Cart Nierenhof – Langenberg 0950 Essen – Langenberg 2
218142 Langenberg – Wuppertal Hbf 1010 Essen – Wuppertal 25
111009# Wuppertal Hbf – Hagen 0934 Duren – Munster 27
111007# Hagen – Koln 1112 Munster – Duren 73
101102# Koln – Koblenz 0933 Hamburg Altona – Basel SBB 94
215139 Koblenz – Wetzlar 1508 Koblenz – Giessen 104
141277 Wetzlar – Giessen 1625 Dillenburg – Giessen 13
215120# Giessen – Wetzlar 1750 Koblenz – Limburg 13
111098 Wetzlar – Giessen 1718 Siegen – Frankfurt 13
The main aim of today was to try to get new bunnies on the Langenbergs, there were three winners out but the third went into its burrow rather than stick to diagram. And the unit stayed out just to increase the punishment. Sad moves I know but I still need several Hagen rabbits!
Steam heat out of Koblenz was once again sampled, prior to the rabbit take-over on the Trier turns.
Checked in to the Park hotel just up from the Bahnhof, then straight down the road to the Alt Giessen brewery for a session of beer and food.
Wednesday 27/11/02
103217 Giessen – Marburg 0641 Karlsruhe – Hamburg Altona 30
212023 Marburg – Giessen 0800 Erndtebruck – Giessen 30
111098 Giessen – Wetzlar 1049 Frankfurt – Siegen 13
111194# Wetzlar – Giessen 1118 Siegen – Frankfurt 13
141140# Geissen – Wetzlar 1225 Giessen – Dillenburg 13
111111# Wetzlar – Giessen 0941 Krefeld – Giessen 13
141161# Giessen – Wetzlar 1325 Giessen – Dillenburg 13
215060# Wetzlar – Giessen 1108 Koblenz – Giessen 13
215096# Grossen Buseck – Bad Saschliff 1500 Grossen Buseck – Fulda 76
215059# Bad Saschliff – Lauterbach Nord 1556 Fulda – Alsfeld 7
215062# Lauterbach Nord – Alsfeld 1627 Fulda – Alsfeld 19
215048 Alsfeld – Fulda 1700 Grossen Buseck – Fulda 46
112166# Fulda – Leipzig 1823 Frankfurt – Leipzig 273
112153# Leipzig – Halle 2125 Dresden - Munchen 38
(112174 & 101089 DIT)
112174 Halle – Nurnberg 2125 Dresden – Munchen 330
Up for breakfast for 07:00 to cover a few turns on the Fulda line, only to find a possession was on with buses to/from Grossen Buseck. Cheers.
However all was not lost as 103217 rolled in on the IR to Hamburg. Once again I couldn’t go through to Hamburg – the lure of a 212 back to Geissen was too great. The 103 was delayed departing Marburg so a few photos, then a few of the 212 & finally one of a private owner ex DR 118 on an engineers train! A few memories of past small engine bashes went through my mind whilst I was bellowing out the front window on the run back to Geissen.
The next 6 moves might look like ned leaps (!) but I was actually covering the 1325 to Dillenburg (required track for diesel Wetzlar – Dillenburg) and knew should it be electric, required 215060 was coming back in from Koblenz. (It was withdrawn about 4 days later!).
So nothing for it but a bus to the other side of the blockade. For a unit to be sat in the platform.
A quick Erdinger for half an hour, to find no less than THREE hauled sets had arrived!
Four required 215’s later and a quick leap to a garage to get a couple of bottles of locally brewed beer and I was well pleased. I was quite content to relax for a few hours en-route to Leipzig.
Thursday 28/11/02
120113# Nurnberg – Augsburg 2125 Dresden – Munchen 137
(112174 DIT)
218422#}Augsburg – Munchen Pasing 0605 Augsburg – Munchen 54
218444 }
218233 Munchen Pasing – Munchen 0546 Marktobersdorf – Munchen 8
218471 Munchen – Kempton 0719 Munchen – Obertsdorf 131
218470# Kempton – Memmingen 0745 Lindau – Ulm 35
218229 Memmingen – Leutkirch 0751 Munchen – Leutkirch 32
Bus Leutkirch – Kisslegg
Cart Kisslegg – Hergatz 1007 Aulendorf – Hergatz 19
218444}Hergatz – Lindau 0820 Munchen – Lindau 23
218422}
218167 Lindau – Freidrichshafen 1204 Lindau - Ulm 24
EI-CSY Freidrichshafen – Stansted 1425 Freidrichshafen – Stansted
Unit Stansted – Peterborough 1620 Stansted Aiport – Liverpool 69m
91xxx Peterborough – Doncaster 1803 Kings Cross – Leeds 80m
A good start to the day, 218422 in the book. This was followed by a good run down to Kempton, front compo in a proper ex IC coach. This proved to be a good move, 218470 appearing, for a choice of two moves: a) 218 back to Kempton for the pair on the 0820 Munich to Lindau
b) 218 over to Aulendorf and another down to Freidrichshafen
Move a) would give me an hour in Freidrichshafen for a beer in the Max Leibinger brewery, move b) would give me two hours in Freidrichshafen, time for food and beer.
Move b) was opted for, that was until another possession appeared before me! So a bus to Kisslegg for a unit to Hergatz, then the pair, resulting in a loss of kliks and only time for one beer in Freidrichshafen. The last thing I viewed at the airport prior to boarding the plane was a required Ulm 218 flying through the station!
Conclusion: A very good trip for both new track for diesel and new 218’s, slightly heavier on the pocket than normal due to visiting breweries most evenings!
Brewery Information
Brauhaus Joh Albrecht Brauerei Kneitinger Spittal Brewery
Schwarze Baren Strasse 6 Kreuzgasse 7 Next to far end of old stone river bridge
Regensburg Regensburg, (in grounds of old
www.brauhaus-joh-albrecht.de St Katherinspital hospital).www.kneitinger.de
Brauerei Nothhaft Bayerischer Bahnhof Hagenbrau
Ottostrasse 30 Bayerischer Platz 1 Am Rhein 3 , Worms
Marktredwitz Leipzig www.hagenbraeu.de
www.brauerei-nothhaft.de www.bayerischer-bahnhof.de
Kleines Freiburger Brauhaus Hausbrauerei Feierling Martins Brau
Moltkestrasse 27 Gerberau 46 Fressgassle 1
Freiburg Freiburg Freiburg
www.freiburger-brauhaus.de www.inselbrauerei.de www.freiburger-markthalle.de
Hausbrauerei Alt-Giessen Max Leibinger Brewery Gertl Brau
Westanlage 30 Freidrichshafen Frieung 9-11, Wels,
Giessen www.leibinger.de Austria www.welsheute.at
www.altgiessen.de
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