The day got off to a good start with three trains photographed in the sun at Velka Luka between Zvolen and Banska Bystrica. After about 40 minutes, a huge raft of cloud moved in rapidly from the west. I headed east, to Brezno and beyond, but couldn’t catch the blue sky as it retreated eastwards.

Plan B, section 14, subsection C, clause 5 allows for a change of direction southwards in such circumstances, so I returned to Brezno then drove down to Mytna on line 160, where the sun soon came out. By this time the afternoon passenger service was getting underway and I’d made sure I was on a section of line that was actually open today! Although there were some fairly substantial wodges of cloud around, everything was photographed in good light until almost 17:00 when the sun gave up and went home to bed.

Just after the sun finally disappeared, Humenne’s wandering grotbox 754.014 turned up on Os6216. This loco was seen heading east, coupled inside the train engine on a Zvolen - Kosice fast train when I was at Roznava last Wednesday, then turned up on Humenne - Banovce trains when I was around Humenne on Saturday. Now it was back at Zvolen. I wouldn’t mind but it’s probably the dirtiest loco in Slovakia and dirty grey green engines don’t photograph well.

Velka Luka

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
754.054	Zr1847	05:47 Zilina - Zvolen os.st.	07:38
736.020 736.011		SB Freight	07:56
750.273	Os6210	08:02 Banska Bystrica - Zvolen os.st.	08:22

Mytna

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
750.032	R932	09:05 Presov - Zvolen os.st.	12:47
750.181	Os6211	12:11 Zvolen os.st. - Filakovo	13:11
754.070	Os6212	13:17 Filakovo - Zvolen os.st.	14:03
750.032	Os6213	13:41 Zvolen os.st. - Filakovo	14:41
750.181	Os6214	14:22 Filakovo - Zvolen os.st.	15:13
754.070	Os6215	14:42 Zvolen os.st. - Filakovo	15:41
746.008	Mn83302	16:06 Lucenec - Zvolen nakl.st. Pick-Up Freight	16:22
754.082	R933	15:53 Zvolen os.st. - Kosice	16:29
754.014	Os6216	14:42 Rimavska Sobota - Zvolen os.st.	16:50
736.023 736.003		WB Freight	17:03