Germany & Austria 07/12 to 15/12 1991 "Where have all the Krocodiles gone?"
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 - Brussels Nord 1754 Brussels Zuid - Amsterdam *
1604# Brussels Nord - Aachen 1657 Ostende - Koln 350km * (* = total km for all 4 moves)
110 245# Aachen - Monchengladbach 2008 Aachen - Paderborn 62km
110 259# Monchengladbach - Krefeld 2052 Monchengladbach - Krefeld 24km
215 130 Krefeld - Nieukirk 2018 Koln Deutz - Kleve 23km
215 032 Nieukirk - Krefeld 2115 Kleve - Koln Deutz 23km
141 223# Krefeld - Duisburg 2137 Aachen - Duisburg 21km
332 183# Shunt D205 onto D203
110 463 Duisburg - Dortmund 2300 Duisburg - Zwickau 53km
103 147# Dortmund - Kassel Hbf 2300 Duisburg - Zwickau 212km
Daily Total = 768km
Sunday 08/12/1991
A second visit to the Harz mountains steam network but this time in the snow.
132 579# Kassel Hbf - Nordhausen 2300 Duisburg - Zwickau 120km
99 7222# Nordhausen Nord - Elend 0640 Nordhausen Nord - Wernigerode 42km
99 892# Elend - Eisfelder Talmuhle 0730 Wernigerode - Nordhausen Nord 25km
99 7231 Eisfelder Talmuhle - Drei Annen Hohne 0852 Nordhausen Nord - Wernigerode 29km
(199 871 dit)
99 7238 Drei Annen Hohne - Schierke 1100 Drei Annen Hohne - Schierke 5km
99 7238 Schierke - Drei Annen Hohne 1123 Schierke - Wernigerode 5km
99 7222 Drei Annen Hohne - Benneckenstein 1030 Wernigerode - Benneckenstein 16km
99 7222 Benneckenstein - Elend 1235 Benneckenstein - Wernigerode 12km
99 7239 Elend - Steinerne Renne 1335 Benneckenstein - Wernigerode 13km
99 7238 Steinerne Renne - Benneckenstein 1412 Wernigerode - Benneckenstein 25km
99 7231 Benneckenstein - Nordhausen Nord 1451 Wernigerode - Nordhausen Nord 30km
216 172# Nordhausen - Northeim 1855 Nordhausen - Northeim 70km
114 491# Northeim - Hannover 2011 Gottingen - Hamburg Altona 88km
218 263# Hannover - Sarstedt 1959 Soltau - Bad Harzburg 18km
218 266# Sarstedt - Hannover 2045 Bad Harzburg - Hannover 18km
103 194 Hannover - Neumarkt Kalham 2023 Hamburg Altona - Wien 769km
Daily Total = 1285km
Monday 09/12/1991
A new country - I was starting by covering the Linz 1018 diagrams.
2043 052# Neumarkt Kalham - Wels 0516 Branau am Inn - Wels 31km
1018 004# Wels - Salzburg 0708 Linz - Salzburg 102km
Unfortunately this was the only 1018 out today so did a fill-in move back into Germany
111 227# Salzburg - Freilassing 0918 Salzburg - Munchen 6km
218 393# Freilassing - Muhldorf 0927 Freilassing - Muhldorf 65km
218 349 Muhldorf - Freilassing 0933 Landshut - Freilassing 65km
111 208# Freilassing - Salzburg 0606 Karlsruhe - Salzburg 6km
1044 012# Salzburg - Saalfelden 0840 Wien Wstbf - Innsbruck 114km
1044 007# Saalfelden - Zell am Zee 1225 Innsbruck - Wien Wstbf 13km
2095 001# Zell am Zee - Krimml 1449 Zell am Zee - Krimml 54km
2095 001 Krimml - Zell am Zee 1637 Krimml - Zell am Zee 54km
2095 002#) Zell am Zee - Bruckberg Golfplatz Hu 1819 Zell - Bruckberg G.Hu 5km
2095 001) Top & Tail
2095 001) Bruckberg Golfplatz Hu - Zell am Zee 1831 Bruckberg G.Hu - Zell 5km
2095 002) Top & Tail
4010 012 Zell am Zee - Worgl 1440 Graz - Innsbruck 94km
1044 079# Worgl - Innsbruck 1540 Wien Wstbf - Bregenz 60km
1044 124# Innsbruck - Worgl 1817 Bregenz - Salzburg 60km
4010 017 Worgl - Innsbruck 1640 Graz - Innsbruck 60km
1044 073# Innsbruck - St.Polten 2325 Innsbruck - Wien West 512 km
Daily Total = 1306km
Tuesday 10/12/1991
As advised by Graham Belton (Peckham) more narrow gauge fun today - up into the mountains to Mariazell behind an electric loco built in 1909.
1099 009# St.Polten - Mariazell 0730 St.Polten - Mariazell 85km
1099 011# Mariazell - Kirchberg a.d.Pielach 1100 Mariazell - St.Polten 54km
1099 016# Kirchberg a.d.Pielach - Schwarzenbach 1130 St.Polten - Mariazell 8km
1099 003# Schwarzenbach - Ober Grafendorf 1226 Laubenbachmuhle - St.Polten 27km
2091 011# Ober Grafendorf - Ruprechtshofen 1353 Ober Grafendorf - Weiselberg 28km
2095 004# Ruprechtshofen - Ober Grafendorf 1420 Weiselberg - Ober Grafendorf 28km
1099 012# Ober Grafendorf - St.Polten 1426 Laubenbachmuhle - St.Polten 27km
What a fantastic route, winding its way up through mountain passes to Mariazell. Plus electric locos with Rods that also Clag - amazing!
2143 037# St.Polten - Herzogenburg 1617 St.Polten - Sigmundsherberg 11km
2143 004# Herzogenburg - St.Polten 1603 Krems - St.Polten 11km
1042 667# St.Polten - Boheimkirchen 1422 St.Valentin - Wien West 11km
1042 015# Boheimkirchen - St.Polten 1612 Wien West - St.Valentin 11km
1044 027# St.Polten - Wien West 1025 Innsbruck - Wien West 60km
1044 121# Wien West - Innsbruck 2210 Wien West - Bregenz 572km
Daily Total = 918km
Wednesday 11/12/1991
The purpose of this overnight was to cover the class 1020 Krocodile diagram on the Arlberg, booked on a load 1 stopper. I leapt off at St Anton, viewed a 1044 on the single coach, then bailed back onto the overnight. A couple more 1020's were in the diagrams on Brennero - Innsbruck commuter trains I will cover those.
1044 088# Innsbruck - Vols 0517 Innsbruck - Otztal 8km
4020 106 Vols - Innsbruck 0423 Landeck - Innsbruck 8km
Not impressed by the unit on the 1020 diagram
1044 123# Innsbruck - Steinach in Tirol 0603 Innsbruck - Brennero 23km
1110 004)# Steinach in Tirol - Innsbruck 0614 Brennero - Innsbruck 23km
1042 567)#
That's a bit better two locos but still no 1020! Of course the new winter diagrams had started on Monday & it turns out the 1020 workings had finished! No internet groups letting you know these things back then........
Next was the main reason for being in Innsbruck anyway - the corridor-zug via Italy to Lienz, a 3 hour diesel run through the mountains.
2043 075#Innsbruck - Lienz (via San Candido) 0703 Innsbruck - Lienz 80+km (missing the Italian bit!)
1042 637# Lienz - Villach 1043 Lienz - Villach 104km
2043 010# Villach - Arnoldstein 1252 Villach - Kotschach Mauthen 18km
2043 077# Arnoldstein - Villach 1132 Kotschach Mauthen - Villach 18km
1044 117# Villach - St.Veit 1108 Salzburg - Wien Sud 58km
1042 546# St.Veit - Klagenfurt 1222 Bruck - Arnoldstein 20km
2043 009# Klagenfurt - Bleibach 1521 Klagenfurt - Wolfsburg 39km
2043 556# Bleibach - Klagenfurt 1527 Wolfsburg - Klagenfurt 39km
1042 502# Klagenfurt - Villach 1422 Bruck - Arnoldstein 38km
1042 629)# Villach - Klagenfurt 1515 Schwarzach St.Veit - Freisach 38km
1042 649)#
2043 004# Kagenfurt - Maria Rein 1856 Klagenfurt - Rosenbach 7km
I was on this train, intending to go to Rosenbach, trying to re-work my planned bash next day due to the obvious lack of 1020 workings, when I decided it was bloody cold (I didn't bring a big enough coat) and there was plenty to be getting on with in Germany - sod it I'm leaving!
I didn't even write down my "Escape" moves but the Bregenz overnight must have featured again tonight as I next surfaced in Lindau!
Daily Total = 521km
Thursday 12/12/1991
Back "home" at last.
215 063# Lindau Hbf - Wasserburg 0806 Lindau - Ulm 6km
218 475) Wasserburg - Lindau 0757 Freidrichshafen - Lindau 6km
218 437) (Load 1 !)
218 437) Lindau - Freidrichshafen Stadt 0852 Lindau - Saarbrucken 24km
218 475)
The route from here to Basel Bad via Radolfzell, Singen, Thayngen & Waldshut had so many hauled trains it was unbelievable - including some Ulm 211 diagrams. Let the fun commence.
215 105# Freidrichshafen Hafen - Freidrichshafen Stadt 0925 Freidrichshafen Hafen - Ulm 1km
215 145# Freidrichshafen Stadt - Kressbronn 0812 Ulm - Lindau 14km
218 447# Kressbronn - Thayngen 0935 Lindau - Basel Bad Bf 94km
218 290 Thayngen - Radolfzell 1016 Basel Bad Bf - Lindau 21km
139 316# Radolfzell - Reichenau 1127 Engen - Konstanz 14km
218 282# Reichenau - Radolfzell 1230 Konstanz - Singen 14km
211 335# Radolfzell - Uberlingen 1306 Radolfzell - Freidrichshafen 25km
218 301 Uberlingen - Radolfzell 1256 Freidrichshafen - Radolfzell 25km
111 104# Radolfzell - Singen 1351 Konstanz - Kassel 10km
139 309# Singen - Radolfzell 1356 Engen - Konstanz 10km
218 406# Radolfzell - Schaffhausen 1327 Lindau - Basel Bad Bf 29km
11394# Schaffhausen - Singen 2100 Lecce - Stuttgart 19km
215 053# Singen - Thayngen 1616 Singen - Schaffhausen 11km
211 333 Thayngen - Singen 1606 Erzingen - Singen 11km
218 395# Singen - Thayngen 1537 Lindau - Basel Bad Bf 11km
218 396 Thayngen - Freidrichshafen 1615 Basel Bad Bf - Lindau 80km
218 301 Freidrichshafen - Uberlingen Ost 1856 Freidrichshafen - Radolfzell 32km
211 355# Uberlingen Ost - Freidrichshafen Stadt 1906 Radolfzell - Lindau 32km
I saw the ECS go into the Hafen station to connect with the next boat to arrive on the Bodensee, it was Gronk-tastic - I think I will walk round there & do it back in!
335 149# Freidrichshafen Hafen - F.Stadt 2023 F.Hafen - F.Stadt 1km
218 416#) Freidrichshafen Stadt - Ulm 2003 Lindau - Ulm 103km
218 442)
218 426# Ulm - Vohringen 2207 Ulm - Kempton 18km
218 451# Vohringen - Ulm 2102 Obertsdorf - Ulm 18km
111 014# Ulm - Stuttgart 2207 Munchen - Amsterdam 94km
Daily Total = 743km
Friday 13/12/1991
Unlucky for some - would my plans go awry on Friday the 13th?
103 232 Ulm - Koln Hbf 2207 Munchen - Amsterdam 383km
103 239 Koln Hbf Shunt
111 134 Koln Hbf - Koln Hansaring 1km
111 134 Koln Hansaring - Koln Hbf xxxx Koln Hansaring - Essen Hbf 1km
The reason for being at Cologne this early - new track for diesel on the 0519 to Dusseldorf which was booked to run the long way round, under the wires to Horrem then via Bergheim & Bedburg.
212 328 Koln Hbf - Grevenboich 0519 Koln Hbf - Dusseldorf (via Horrem & Bedburg) 46km
212 232 Grevenboich - Neuss Hbf 0655 Grevenboich - Neuss Hbf 15km
103 144# Neuss Hbf - Dortmund Hbf 0703 Koln Hbf - Leipzig 88km
212 290 Dortmund Hbf - Dortmund Westfalenhalle 0851 Dortmund Hbf - Iserlohn 5km
212 306# Dortmund Westfalenhalle - Dortmund Hbf 0816 Iserlohn - Dortmund Hbf 5km
141 300# Dortmund Hbf - Gutersloh 0934 Dortmund Hbf - Bielefeld 81km
103 157# Gutersloh - Dortmund Hbf 0510 Leipzig - Koln 81km
212 299# Dortmund Hbf - Dortmund Westfalenhalle 1136 Dortmund Hbf - Neunerade 5km
212 273# Dortmund Westfalenhalle - Schwerte 1151 Dortmund Hbf - Iserlohn 13km
218 147 Schwerte - Frondenberg 1103 Essen Hbf - Kassel Wilhelmshohe 15km
Six class 212 diagrams covered so far - now for a further 4 on the Neunerade branch workings:
212 291 Frondenberg - Bosperde 1207 Unna - Neunerade 1km
212 293# Bosperde - Unna 1240 Menden - Dortmund Hbf 14km
212 298# Unna - Frondenberg 1307 Unna - Neunerade 13km
212 284# Frondenberg - Unna 1324 Menden - Unna 13km
6 winner 212's out of ten is worth a celebration - I know I once went for a beer outside Unna station, this must have been the occasion as I've never been back since!
141 285 Unna - Dortmund 1313 Lipstatt - Dortmund 23km
Now for the main track bash of the day - a 212 to Gronau.
212 290 Dortmund Hbf - Gronau 1454 Dortmund Hbf - Gronau 96km
Unusually no photo's taken at Gronau or any for 48 hours - back then you sometimes had to make a choice between buying a film or eating!
Unit Gronau - Munster 1747 Gronau - Munster
140 698 Munster - Haltern 1910 Munster - Essen Hbf 42km
A nice move, a bit more new track as Haltern was the limit for the 216 hauled services out of Essen.
216 104# Haltern - Essen Hbf 1953 Haltern - Langenberg 45km
216 084 Essen Hbf - Essen Borbeck Sud 1939 Langenberg - Haltern 3km
216 035 Essen Borbeck Sud - Essen Hbf 2001 Bottrop - Wuppertal Oberbarmen 3km
111 148# Essen Hbf - Mulheim Hbf 1739 Kassel - Aachen 9km
110 144# Mulheim Hbf - Koln Deutz 2016 Dortmund Hbf - Aachen 73km
218 134# Koln Deutz - Koln Hbf 2040 Gummersbach - Koln Hansaring 1km
103 139# Koln Hbf - Dortmund Hbf 2335 Koln - Kiel 117km
103 191) Dortmund Hbf - Hamburg Altona 2335 Koln - Kiel 362km
103 208#)
Daily Total = 1564km
Saturday 14/12/1991
From a day doing small diesels to a day doing big diesels - it's a Rabbit Hunt! No new track to slow me down.
218 122# Hamburg Altona - Elmshorn 0545 H.Altona - Neumunster 37km
218 121 Elmshorn - Hamburg Altona 0524 Kiel - H.Altona 37km
218 260 Hamburg Altona - Elmshorn 0724 H.Altona - Kiel 37km
218 119 Elmshorn - Hamburg Altona 0602 Husum - H.Altona 37km
218 114# Hamburg Altona - Neumunster 0824 H.Altona - Kiel 73km
218 112#) Neumunster - Rendsburg 0500 Kassel Hbf - Flensburg 39km
218 125)
218 122 Rendsburg - Hamburg Altona 0724 Frederica - H.Altona 112km
103 217 Hamburg Altona - Hamburg Hbf 1133 H.Altona - Gottingen 7km
218 427) Hamburg Hbf - Hamburg Harburg 1144 Hamburg Hbf - Cuxhaven 12km
218 113#)
103 180# Hamburg Harburg - Hamburg Altona 0943 Gottingen - Flensburg 19km
218 103#) Hamburg Altona - Neumunster 0943 Gottingen - Flensburg 37km
218 114)
218 161 Neumunster - Elmshorn 1324 Kiel - H.Altona 36km
218 179# Elmshorn - Witzler 1400 H.Altona - Husum 43km
218 123# Witzler - Elmshorn 1402 Husum - H.Altona 43km
218 485# Elmshorn - Tornesch 1552 Elmshorn - Pinneburg 8km
218 336 Tornesch - Elmshorn 1554 Pinneburg - Elmshorn 8km
218 190 Elmshorn - Hamburg Altona 1524 Kiel - H.Altona 37km
471 181 Hamburg Altona - Hamburg Hbf 6km
218 259#) Hamburg Hbf - Lubeck Hbf 1716 Hamburg Hbf - L.Travelmunde Strasse 63km
218 495#)
218 256#) Lubeck Hbf - Bad Oldsloe 1804 Lubeck Hbf - Hamburg Hbf 23km
218 325)
218 461) Bad Oldsloe - Lubeck Hbf 1816 Hamburg Hbf - Lubeck Hbf - 23km
218 195)
Now there was some new track available but obviously in the dark.
218 197#) Lubeck Hbf - Luneburg 1740 Kiel - Luneburg 79km
218 107#)
103 217 Luneburg - Hannover 1933 Hamburg Altona - Kassel Hbf 129km
218 269# Hannover - Sarstedt 1959 Soltau - Bad Harzburg 18km
218 272# Sarstedt - Hannover 2045 Bad Harzburg - Hannover 18km
218 902# Hannover - Wolfsburg 2325 Hannover - Wolfsburg 75km
28 different 218 Rabbits for the day of which 16 were winners, for a total of 1402km (including the pairs). Quite a haul, don't know if that makes me the Poacher or the Gamekeeper?
Daily Total = 1173km
Sunday 15/12/1991
Final day of the trip and apart from scratching a few 215's around Koln todays main aim was new track for diesel on the Gummersbach branch.
132 140(!) Wolfsburg - Hannover 1933 Dresden - Koln Hbf 75km
103 234# Hannover - Koln 1933 Dresden - Koln Hbf 325km
215 129# Koln Hbf - Weilerswist 0627 Koln Deutz - Trier 29km
215 136 Weilerswist - Koln Hbf 0656 Euskirchen - Koln Deutz 29km
215 041# Koln Hbf - Koln Sud 0807 Koln Deutz - Gerolstein 5km
215 046 Koln Sud - Koln Hbf 0703 Junkerath - Koln Deutz 5km
218 143 Koln Hbf - Koln Hansaring 0740 Gummersbach - Koln Hansaring 1km
111 120 Koln Hansaring - Koln Hbf - 0858 Koln Hansaring - Essen Hbf 1km
218 151 Koln Hbf - Gummersbach 0907 Koln - Gummersbach 58km
218 151 Gummersbach - Koln Hbf 1040 Gummersbach - Koln Hbf 58km
1605# Koln Hbf - Oostende 1217 Koln Hbf - Oostende 350km
(2383 Liege banker)
2104 Oostende - Brugge
2719 Brugge - Oostende
Daily Total = 936km
Total KM = 10004 Total Moves = 161
Daily Average = 1111km Average Per Move = 62km
A varied trip and even though I made a hasty retreat from Austria I was back that spring doing lots of new track for diesel, the OBB timetable was such that you always made your connections so trips were very easy to plan back then, I never did have a 1020 Krok on a service train though..... Even German trains were reliable timekeeping wise in those days so all objectives were met.
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