Thu 15 Sep 2011
Thu 15 Sep 2011
31/07/12 17:04
The day started red and blue, turned hideously green and yellow in the middle but then ended magnificently red and blue again.
I took a gamble that the 06:07 from Ceske Bud would be a railbus again and went looking for the Cicenice - Volary pick-up goods instead. Red and blue 751.316 soon appeared at my chosen location near Blanice on two empty wagons and two vans, a long train for the line these days. Then it was off to Stozec, between Cerny Kriz and Nove Udoli where the railbus that had worked the 06:07 from CB was seen returning. Phew, I’d have been pig sick if it had been a loco and I’d missed it.
After photographing 749.254 approaching Nove Udoli on the 08:07 from CB, I headed east, stopping briefly at Cerna v Posumavi to see which loco was on the 10:07. The train eventually showed up 20 minutes late with an 814 instead. Never mind, on to Horice na Sumave to photograph 749.254 returning east. Then there was a very long wait before anything else of interest happened.
By that stage my list of six critical shots had been whittled down to one. I’d got two during the morning, another two were impossible unless the 06:07 was loco, which it wasn’t, and as I’d found out yesterday, another wasn’t lit at this time of year. That left the 14:07 approaching Horice to get. After seeing the 814 on the 10:07 I did even wonder whether it would be loco hauled.
Fortunately it was. The depot must have realised that this might be my last ever shot of a passenger train booked to be worked by a 749 and turned out their smartest engine, 749.051, looking magnificent in clean red and blue livery. The light was touch and go but the train passed in full sun. Gotcha! I hadn’t planned to do another shot but raced to Nova Pec to get another pic of this previously unphotographed loco at the best location on the line, again in superb light.
A wonderful day overall, despite only taking 5 shots and an 814 taking out a third of the loco hauled service at one fell swoop. I left for Germany well satisfied.
I took a gamble that the 06:07 from Ceske Bud would be a railbus again and went looking for the Cicenice - Volary pick-up goods instead. Red and blue 751.316 soon appeared at my chosen location near Blanice on two empty wagons and two vans, a long train for the line these days. Then it was off to Stozec, between Cerny Kriz and Nove Udoli where the railbus that had worked the 06:07 from CB was seen returning. Phew, I’d have been pig sick if it had been a loco and I’d missed it.
After photographing 749.254 approaching Nove Udoli on the 08:07 from CB, I headed east, stopping briefly at Cerna v Posumavi to see which loco was on the 10:07. The train eventually showed up 20 minutes late with an 814 instead. Never mind, on to Horice na Sumave to photograph 749.254 returning east. Then there was a very long wait before anything else of interest happened.
By that stage my list of six critical shots had been whittled down to one. I’d got two during the morning, another two were impossible unless the 06:07 was loco, which it wasn’t, and as I’d found out yesterday, another wasn’t lit at this time of year. That left the 14:07 approaching Horice to get. After seeing the 814 on the 10:07 I did even wonder whether it would be loco hauled.
Fortunately it was. The depot must have realised that this might be my last ever shot of a passenger train booked to be worked by a 749 and turned out their smartest engine, 749.051, looking magnificent in clean red and blue livery. The light was touch and go but the train passed in full sun. Gotcha! I hadn’t planned to do another shot but raced to Nova Pec to get another pic of this previously unphotographed loco at the best location on the line, again in superb light.
A wonderful day overall, despite only taking 5 shots and an 814 taking out a third of the loco hauled service at one fell swoop. I left for Germany well satisfied.
N of Blanice
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 751.316 | Číčenice - Volary Pick-Up Freight | 08:31 |
Stožec
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 749.254 | Os8109/8108 | 08:07 České Budějovice - Nové Údolí | 10:44 |
Hořice na Šumavé
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 749.254 | Os8115/8114 | 11:17 Nové Údolí - České Budějovice | 12:48 |
| 749.051 | Os8121/8120 | 14:07 České Budějovice - Nové Údolí | 15:26 |
Nova Pec
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 749.051 | Os8121/8120 | 14:07 České Budějovice - Nové Údolí | 16:16 |
