Another clear start and this time it stayed that way all day, without even a single cloud to spoil the party. With no freight booked to go east on the Schwandorf line I spent the first hour or so at Hohenstadt where the only freight seen was a distant view of one crossing over the valley to go east on the Schwandorf line. Oops!

Then it was up the Pegnitz Valley to Alfalter where three freights went north at hourly intervals and another came south. I assumed the third northbound was the train due an hour later and left for Penzenhof on the Schwandorf line where the eastbound ALEX was booked to be followed by an eastbound freight. The ALEX was late and the freight came first, followed almost immediately by an unexpected westbound.

That was basically it for the day. I went back to Alfalter for the only other potential working, a southbound “as required” freight that didn’t show up. Sundays look very quiet in the Hersbruck area so I left to spend the last day of the trip in Altmühltal where there should be regular 111 worked push-pulls and hopefully some freight as well.

Hohenstadt (on link line)

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
232.xxx		EB Freight	09:24

Alfalter, N of Hohenstadt

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
233.511	51504	München Nord - Engelsdorf (b. Leipzig) Freight	10:24
232.609	51748	10:45 Nürnberg Rbf - Engelsdorf (b. Leipzig) Freight	11:24
232.461	49278	Kolin - Woippy Freight	12:05
232.388		EB Freight	12:27

Penzenhof, W of Etzelwang

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
232.654	56901	13:42 Nürnberg Rbf - Schwandorf Freight	14:30
232.589		WB Freight	14:38
223.072	ALX353	14:05 Nürnberg Hbf - Praha hl.n.	14:50