Another day on the Stuttgart - Singen line. It should have been an interesting day as two IC trains each way were booked for class 181 electrics, a class not traditionally seen south of Stuttgart. Perhaps the diagrams have changed because three of the four trains in question were seen and all were worked by 120.155. In fact all the ICs were hauled by class 101 or 120 locos, although each class didn’t always appear on the expected trains.

The REs to/from Singen were all worked by 146.2s on push-pull sets while the REs to/from Rottweil were 425 units.

Only two freights were seen, both hauled by pairs of class 185 locos and both seen within 45 minutes of each other at lunchtime.

The weather forecast was poor but there was actually a fair amount of blue sky around in the morning and a couple of shots were bagged in sun in the Neckar Valley between Sulz and Oberndorf.

By late morning the cloud had become fairly solid and I moved north to Eutingen im Gäu where the weather looked better. Three hours there produced nothing in sun although a heavily graffitied class 425 did pass in good light.

Later I moved on to a spot north of Herrenberg where the town’s impressive Stiftskirche dominates shots of trains leaving for the north. The sun was more co-operative there and shots of a 146 and 120 were taken in good light before the sky filled in. At that point I decided to cut and run for my final hotel at Sohren in the Hunsruck.

Grünholz

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
120.155	IC181	05:58 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Zürich HB	08:55
101.111	IC284	07:10 Zürich HB - Stuttgart Hbf	09:09

Sulz am Neckar

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
146.218 propelling	RE19035	08:18 Stuttgart Hbf - Singen (Hohentwiel)	09:33
146.208	RE19040	09:19 Singen (Hohentwiel) - Stuttgart Hbf	10:32

Grünholz

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
120.132	IC183	09:55 Stuttgart Hbf - Zürich HB	10:54

Eutingen im Gau

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
101.100	IC282	09:10 Zürich HB - Stuttgart Hbf	11:27

Eutingen im Gäu

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
101.111	IC185	11:55 Stuttgart Hbf - Zürich Hbf	12:32
185.291 185.094		NB Freight	12:33
146.218	RE19042	11:19 Singen (Hohentwiel) - Stuttgart Hbf	12:54
146.208 propelling	RE19039	12:18 Stuttgart Hbf - Singen (Hohentwiel)	13:09
185.085 185.293		SB Oil Tanks	13:15
120.155	IC280	11:10 Zürich HB - Stuttgart Hbf	13:38
101.100	IC187	13:55 Stuttgart Hbf - Zürich HB	14:33

Affstätt, N of Herrenberg

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
146.207	RE19044	13:19 Singen (Hohentwiel) - Stuttgart Hbf	15:13
120.132	IC186	13:10 Zürich HB - Stuttgart Hbf	15:38
120.132	IC281	15:55 Stuttgart Hbf - Zürich HB	16:22