The BeerTrain

 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  ...

This was definitely NOT a single manned trip! Forewarned that the Swiss Railway society were running their special around Greece at the same time as Greek Easter meant a large contingent of 31 bashers / Crompton bashers & a few Peak bashers were all keen to attend. You could pay by the day on the Swiss trip so ideal. Me & Howey had booked our flights while staying in Sibenik on 27th December, the night the flights first came available, thanks to Howey's mate in the UK who did a sterling job for us other the phone. (# = new loco)    Thursday 02/05/02 A positioning move to get us in place for the following days Swiss tour with A206 & A302 . A day of unbelievable hay-fever, especially when we reached Stylis. Not sure who was worse me or Shovel! A483# Athens - Lianokladi 1320 Athens - Stylis 212km A206 at Llianokladi waits to work the Swiss tour of 03/05/02. A302 is in the background. A223 Lianokladi - Stylis 1320 Athens - Stylis 22km A223 at Stylis on the 17...