The aim of the trip was to get photos of class 110/115 and class 181 locos on the Stuttgart - Zürich ICs but I hadn’t expected to get both classes on the same train. The first southbound, IC181, passed Grünholz with 115.459 leading a dead 181.213. It took a while to figure out but the only reason to send the two locos down to Singen was to bring two trains back. Sure enough, the 115 returned almost immediately with IC282, booked for a 101, while the 181 came back on its booked train, IC280, two hours later. That still left Stuttgart short of a 101 and it was no great surprise when the 115 took IC187 south and then IC182 north, later in the day.

Saturdays should be the least interesting of the weekend days on the Gäubahn with 101s working the majority of trains, only a handful of workings for classes 120 or 181 and no 110s or 115s at all. When one of the 101s falls into the Bodensee, seeks asylum in Switzerland, gets kidnapped by aliens, or whatever else could have happened to it, the 110/115s appear and a dull day suddenly becomes very interesting.

It was just as well that the 115 was working as my original plan for the afternoon rapidly fell apart. From my position, on the Singen line south of Tuttlingen, I could see the Tuttlingen - Immendingen line across the valley. As expected a 218 went west propelling three coaches around 10:20. I wasn’t expecting it to come back at 11:40 but that’s what happened. It seems that there’s engineering work west of Immendingen this weekend and the Ulm - Neustadt trains are turning round at Immendingen and returning east. No point in trying to get shots of the 218 working from Neustadt to Rottweil and back in the afternoon when it had already given up and gone home.

This was the only day of the trip forecast to have good weather and, for once, the forecast was accurate with all but a couple of shots being taken in good light.

Grünholz, N of Oberndorf

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
146.208	RE19038	07:21 Singen(Hohentwiel) - Stuttgart Hbf	08:40
115.459 181.213	IC181	05:56 Frankfurt(Main) Hbf - Zürich HB	08:54
120.134	IC284	07:10 Zürich HB - Stuttgart Hbf	09:07

Möhringen (KBS755)

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
218.xxx propelling	IRE3220	08:10 Ulm Hbf - Neustadt(Schwarzw)*	10:20
218.xxx	IRE3211	10:32 Neustadt(Schwarzw) - Ulm Hbf*	11:38

*Services terminated at Immendingen due to engineering work between there and Donaueschingen

S of Tuttlingen

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
146.221 t & t with 146.207	RE19035	08:18 Stuttgart Hbf - Singen(Hohentwiel)	10:20
115.459	IC282	09:10 Zürich HB - Stuttgart Hbf	10:33
185.137		NB freight	11:06
101.121	IC183	09:56 Stuttgart Hbf - Zürich HB	11:32
Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
146.207 t & t with 146.221	RE19042	11:19 Singen(Hohentwiel) - Stuttgart Hbf	11:41
146.xxx	RE19037	10:18 Stuttgart Hbf - Singen(Hohentwiel)	12:19
181.213	IC280	11:10 Zürich HB - Stuttgart Hbf	12:32
120.154	IC185	11:56 Stuttgart Hbf - Zürich HB	13:32
146.208	RE19044	13:19 Singen(Hohentwiel) - Stuttgart Hbf	13:40
146.202 propelling	RE19039	12:18 Stuttgart Hbf - Singen(Hohentwiel)	14:22
101.121	IC186	13:10 Zürich HB - Stuttgart Hbf	14:30
115.459	IC187	13:56 Stuttgart Hbf - Zürich HB	15:31

S of Rottweil-Saline

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
120.154	IC184	15:10 Zürich HB - Stuttgart Hbf	16:46
101.055	IC281	15:56 Stuttgart Hbf - Zürich HB	17:12

Dettingen, S of Horb

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
146.207 t & t with 146.221	RE19048	17:19 Singen(Hohentwiel) - Stuttgart Hbf	18:37
101.121	IC283	17:57 Stuttgart Hbf - Zürich HB	18:45
115.459	IC182	17:10 Zürich HB - Stuttgart Hbf	19:17