Wed 19 October 2011
Wed 19 October 2011
31/07/12 17:02
Off to Germany again to photograph Ludmillas on freights in the hills east of Nürnberg.
I flew with Air Berlin from Gatwick to Nürnberg, arriving about 30 minutes early and had been bussed to the terminal, gone through immigration, collected my bag and the keys for my hire car by the time we should have landed. The car was a Chevrolet Sprint and by 11:30, I’d driven my Chevy to the levee, or at least to the level crossing at Hersbruck Ost, finding it anything but dry. The weather was dull and wet all day without even a hint of a break in the clouds. By mid afternoon it had turned bitterly cold as well.
There was nothing for it but to sit in the car and watch the trains go by. In the five hours I was there, no fewer than six 232 hauled freights passed and I was aware of at least one more on the “links Pegnitz” line across the valley. Only one of the freights I had expected wasn’t seen but if it had been a few minutes early, I’d have missed it. There were also three unexpected westbounds, the first of which could have been a very late 45360 from Cheb as it had about 50% Czech wagons in the consist.
A VBG class 223 worked the afternoon Nürnberg - Praha ALEX as expected. In between the locos there was an almost continuous stream of DMUs of classes 610, 612 and 648, often in double or triple formations. I counted about 40 workings in five hours.
By 16:30 it was clear that the sun wasn’t going to come out so, after clocking freight 45330, I gave up went to find my hotel in the village of Kirchensittenbach, a few km north of Hersbruck.
I flew with Air Berlin from Gatwick to Nürnberg, arriving about 30 minutes early and had been bussed to the terminal, gone through immigration, collected my bag and the keys for my hire car by the time we should have landed. The car was a Chevrolet Sprint and by 11:30, I’d driven my Chevy to the levee, or at least to the level crossing at Hersbruck Ost, finding it anything but dry. The weather was dull and wet all day without even a hint of a break in the clouds. By mid afternoon it had turned bitterly cold as well.
There was nothing for it but to sit in the car and watch the trains go by. In the five hours I was there, no fewer than six 232 hauled freights passed and I was aware of at least one more on the “links Pegnitz” line across the valley. Only one of the freights I had expected wasn’t seen but if it had been a few minutes early, I’d have missed it. There were also three unexpected westbounds, the first of which could have been a very late 45360 from Cheb as it had about 50% Czech wagons in the consist.
A VBG class 223 worked the afternoon Nürnberg - Praha ALEX as expected. In between the locos there was an almost continuous stream of DMUs of classes 610, 612 and 648, often in double or triple formations. I counted about 40 workings in five hours.
By 16:30 it was clear that the sun wasn’t going to come out so, after clocking freight 45330, I gave up went to find my hotel in the village of Kirchensittenbach, a few km north of Hersbruck.
Hersbruck Ost
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 232.252 | WB Freight | 12:14 (Ex Pegnitz line) |
|
| 232.609 | 51657 | Engelsdorf (b. Leipzig) - Nürnberg Rbf Freight | 13:15 |
| 232.618 | 45365 | 12:35 Nürnberg Rbf - Cheb Freight | 13:18 |
| 223.064 | ALX353 | 14:05 Nürnberg Hbf - Praha hl.n. | 14:24 |
| 232.571 | WB Containers | 14:39 (Ex Amberg line) |
|
| 232.457 | WB Coal Hoppers | 15:21 (Ex Amberg line) |
|
| 232.654 | 45330 | Plzen - Nürnberg Rbf Freight | 16:20 |
