Fri 01 Apr 2011
Fri 01 Apr 2011
31/07/12 17:09
After several days of excellent weather and rewarding photography, a dull day provided the opportunity to do some travelling, specifically to try to find more photo positions in good scenery.
I left Roznava on R930, just after 07:00, and travelled to Zvolen. Once again, the stock was in appalling condition with windows so dirty it was difficult to see out. The next leg of the journey took me via Banska Bystrica, Brezno, Cervena Skala and Margecany to Kosice over one of Slovakia’s most scenic lines, seen from the luxury of a clean, comfortable, first class coach. The train was composed almost entirely of CD stock, including the coach I was in, and the first leg of the journey, to Banska, was behind a CD loco. The red beast was on the front from Banska to Margecany where a ZSSK 163 took over.
Two surprises en-route concerned pick-up freights. The first surprise was seeing a 742 on one at Cervena Skala - I didn’t think the pick-up from Brezno worked beyond Helpa these days. The second surprise was seeing the pick-up that works the east end of the line out of Margecany, hauled by a 721. This train has been booked 731 for years. Photographically the line has tremendous potential but more than 90% of the prospective shots are ruined by a line of telegraph poles that runs along the south side most of the way from Banska to Margecany.
From Kosice I travelled back to Roznava on a railbus rather than jostle with the crowds fighting to get on every long distance train. By the time we arrived at Roznava, the sun was coming out and, after a quick dash down the road, the cameras came out for the first time all day to record 751.118 leaving Slavec Jaskyne with the pick-up to Plesivec. I hung around in case something else turned up but the cloud filled in again before anything of interest came.
I left Roznava on R930, just after 07:00, and travelled to Zvolen. Once again, the stock was in appalling condition with windows so dirty it was difficult to see out. The next leg of the journey took me via Banska Bystrica, Brezno, Cervena Skala and Margecany to Kosice over one of Slovakia’s most scenic lines, seen from the luxury of a clean, comfortable, first class coach. The train was composed almost entirely of CD stock, including the coach I was in, and the first leg of the journey, to Banska, was behind a CD loco. The red beast was on the front from Banska to Margecany where a ZSSK 163 took over.
Two surprises en-route concerned pick-up freights. The first surprise was seeing a 742 on one at Cervena Skala - I didn’t think the pick-up from Brezno worked beyond Helpa these days. The second surprise was seeing the pick-up that works the east end of the line out of Margecany, hauled by a 721. This train has been booked 731 for years. Photographically the line has tremendous potential but more than 90% of the prospective shots are ruined by a line of telegraph poles that runs along the south side most of the way from Banska to Margecany.
From Kosice I travelled back to Roznava on a railbus rather than jostle with the crowds fighting to get on every long distance train. By the time we arrived at Roznava, the sun was coming out and, after a quick dash down the road, the cameras came out for the first time all day to record 751.118 leaving Slavec Jaskyne with the pick-up to Plesivec. I hung around in case something else turned up but the cloud filled in again before anything of interest came.
Roznava
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
751.126 | NB Freight | 06:55 | |
754.035 | R930 | 06:06 Kosice - Zvolen os.st. | 07:04 |
Plesivec
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
721.028 736.004 736.006 |
Stabled | 07:17 |
Filakovo
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
742.311 742.352 |
Stabled | 08:20 |
Zvolen os.st.
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
240.121 | R830 | 08:48 Banska Bystrica - Bratislava hl.st. | 09:30 |
242.274 (CD) | R811 | 06:37 Bratislava hl.st. - Kosice | 09:39 |
Sliac
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
240.103 | Os7321 | 09:28 Banska Bystrica - Zvolen os.st. | 09:50 |
Vlkanova
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
736.020 736.023 |
SB Freight | 09:55 |
Banska Bystrica
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
240.081 240.096 736.002 736.010 742.634 |
Stabled | 10:15 | |
754.054 | R811 | 06:37 Bratislava hl.st. - Kosice | 10:15 |
Brezno
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
742.267 | Stabled | 11:02 |
Cervena Skala
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
742.021 | WB Pick-Up Freight | 11:51 |
Nalepkovo
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
721.099 | EB Pick-Up Freight | 12:46 |
Margecany
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
731.035 | Stabled | 13:25 | |
163.055 | R811 | 06:37 Bratislava hl.st. - Kosice | 13:28 |
363.145 | R603 | 07:57 Bratislava hl.st. - Kosice | 13:31 |
Kysak
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
131.058 131.057 |
Light Engine | 13:51 |
Kostolany nad Hornadom
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
131.031 131.032 |
NB Freight | 13:57 |
Kosice
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
110.023 721.049 |
Station Pilots | 14:14 | |
121.004 (SZDZ) 131.039 131.040 150.215 (CD) 163.049 163.059 163.104 163.105 460.042 460.043 460.057 754.082 |
Various | 14:14 |
Haniska pre Kosiciach
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
131.069 131.070 |
EB Freight | 15:11 |
Turna nad Bodvou
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
754.082 | R934 | 15:27 Kosice - Zvolen os.st. | 16:03 |
Lipovnik
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
751.076 751.173 |
EB Freight | 16:32 |
Slavec Jaskyna
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
751.118 | Mn81160 | 11:10 Velka Ida - Plesivec Pick-Up Freight | 16:57 |