Mon 09 May 2011
Mon 09 May 2011
31/07/12 17:08
The day started well with a couple of hours photography near Strba in superb light. IC501, which should have been 350 hauled, was worked by a 362. Where have all the Gorillas gone?
A very pleasant surprise was getting 140.058 and 753.324 double heading an eastbound coal train. After more than 10 years taking photographs in the former Czechoslovakia, my very first shot of a Bobina! The train couldn’t have gone any further than Svit as both locos returned light 37 minutes later.
By 10:30 the light was getting too head on so I drove south to Stratena on the Banska Bystrica - Cervena Skala - Margecany line for R811. This was the same spot I’d tried on Saturday but this time the sun stayed out for supershine 754.055.
The afternoon was spent on the Zvolen - Kosice line between Hrhov and Tornala. There was a lot of cloud around and not too many trains but I was unusually lucky and got all but one of my shots in full sun. This included three shots of 751.118 on the westbound pick-up, which obliged by stopping to shunt Jablonov nad Turnou and Lipovnik. The afternoon passenger from Kosice was hauled by a spotless and rather noisy 750.221, vice a 754, and made a superb picture leaving Roznava.
All in all an excellent day. Hopefully, I haven’t used up all my good luck for the year.
A very pleasant surprise was getting 140.058 and 753.324 double heading an eastbound coal train. After more than 10 years taking photographs in the former Czechoslovakia, my very first shot of a Bobina! The train couldn’t have gone any further than Svit as both locos returned light 37 minutes later.
By 10:30 the light was getting too head on so I drove south to Stratena on the Banska Bystrica - Cervena Skala - Margecany line for R811. This was the same spot I’d tried on Saturday but this time the sun stayed out for supershine 754.055.
The afternoon was spent on the Zvolen - Kosice line between Hrhov and Tornala. There was a lot of cloud around and not too many trains but I was unusually lucky and got all but one of my shots in full sun. This included three shots of 751.118 on the westbound pick-up, which obliged by stopping to shunt Jablonov nad Turnou and Lipovnik. The afternoon passenger from Kosice was hauled by a spotless and rather noisy 750.221, vice a 754, and made a superb picture leaving Roznava.
All in all an excellent day. Hopefully, I haven’t used up all my good luck for the year.
Strba
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
131.048 131.047 banked by 183.020 |
WB Iron Ore | 09:12 | |
131.015 131.016 banked by 183.043 |
WB Iron Ore | 09:21 | |
362.005 | IC501 | 05:52 Bratislava hl.st. - Kosice | 09:37 |
362.008 | R604 | 05:26 Humenne - Bratislava hl.st. | 09:38 |
131.017 131.018 |
EB Freight | 09:45 | |
140.058 (RailTrans) 753.324 (Lokorail) |
EB Coal | 09:53 | |
131.036 131.035 banked by 183.006 |
WB Iron Ore | 10:16 | |
362.016 | R601 | 05:57 Bratislava hl.st. - Kosice | 10:26 |
753.324 (Lokorail) 140.058 (RailTrans) |
WB Light Engines | 10:29 | |
183.006 | EB Light | 10:31 |
Stratena
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
754.055 | R811 | 06:37 Bratislava hl.st. - Kosice | 12:19 |
Hrhov
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
751.059 751.173 |
WB Stone Hoppers | 14:25 | |
751.118 | Mn81160 | 11:10 Velka Ida - Plesivec Pick-Up Goods | 15:02 |
Lipovnik
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
751.118 | Mn81160 | 11:10 Velka Ida - Plesivec Pick-Up Goods | 15:38 |
Jovice
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
751.118 | Mn81160 | 11:10 Velka Ida - Plesivec Pick-Up Goods | 16:13 |
Roznava
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
750.221 | R934 | 15:27 Kosice - Zvolen os.st. | 16:26 |
Gemer
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
751.125 | WB Freight | 17:01 |
Roznava
Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
754.053 | R933 | 15:53 Zvolen os.st. - Kosice | 18:19 |