Tue 05 Apr 2011

Another frustrating day, this time at the west end of line 160. The forecast was poor and it was raining when I left Lucenec. The weather looked brighter to the north and by the time I’d checked out a couple of spots around Krivan and Detva the sun was breaking through.

There should have been a couple of freights during the morning but nothing appeared. After yesterday’s performance I wasn’t too surprised. It was only when two loco hauled passenger trains due around midday failed to appear that I realised that something was wrong.

A quick check of the timetable revealed that there should have been a couple of railbuses during the morning but they hadn’t run either. Down at Krivan station a fleet of buses was leaving the station in the direction of Zvolen and all became clear. I’d been waiting for a train on a line that was closed for engineering work!

Trains were operating east of Krivan but the cloud was still pretty solid in that direction. I found the sun again south of Lucenec but had just missed a couple of trains and had an hour to wait for the next one. In the meantime, I checked out the line from Filakovo to the Hungarian border at Somoskoeujfalu, where the daily freight is booked for double headed, double banked 751s, but it looked next to impossible to photograph in the early afternoon when the trains are booked to run.

By the time I’d got back to the main line between Lucenec and Filakovo, the sun had gone. I continued to Mytna and spent the afternoon there. Most trains passed in cloud and I managed to screw up photographing the couple that passed in sun. There was an extra loco hauled passenger, Os6217, normally a railbus, but that passed in cloud as well.

The day ended with a shot of R934 at Podrecany. The sun was out and I managed to get the shot right but the stock was so disfigured by graffiti that it’s far from ideal.

The engineering work continues tomorrow between Zvolen and Krivan from 09:10 to 16:00 and between Jesenske and Rimavska Sec from 07:30 to 16:00.

After the difficulty getting a hotel in Lucenec, I went back to the Polana in Zvolen for the next few nights.

Holisa

Loco Train
No.
Train Details Notes
754.033 Os6214 14:22 Filakovo - Zvolen os.st. 14:35

Mytna

Loco Train
No.
Train Details Notes
754.033 Os6214 14:22 Filakovo - Zvolen os.st. 15:10
750.148 Os6215 14:42 Zvolen os.st - Filakovo 15:43
754.072 R933 15:53 Zvolen os.st - Kosice 16:31
750.032 Os6216 14:42 Rimavska Sobota - Zvolen os.st. 16:51
754.070 Os6217 16:05 Zvolen os.st - Filakovo 16:52
746.008
banked by
736.009
Mn83302 16:06 Lucenec - Zvolen nakl.st. Pick-Up Freight 17:17

Podrecany

Loco Train
No.
Train Details Notes
754.082 R934 15:27 Kosice - Zvolen os.st. 18:09