Sat 02 Jun 2012
Sat 02 Jun 2012
31/07/12 16:55
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.
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 |