Fri 20 Sep 2013
Fri 20 Sep 2013
17/10/13 21:45
Another difficult day with lots of rain and only one brief sunny break. Once again, the whole day was spent in the Wiesau / Pechbrunn area, failing to get a Ludmilla in the sun as usual.
Passenger services produced no surprises with the additional, Fridays only, ALEX services producing as expected. The REs are slightly different on Fridays as well but all were worked by DB class 610 DMUs, with Vogtlandbahn class 642 DMUs on the locals as always.
Freights were a bit less predictable than usual. The early Nürnberg - Cheb ran but I didn’t see the Zwickau, usually an excellent timekeeper, although a 232 did go south light engine around the right time. The empty car carriers went north again and a loaded train of car carriers came south, the first I’ve seen this year. The afternoon freight from Cheb, also usually reliable, didn’t run but the northbound did. There was also an Altenschwand (near Schwandorf) - Cierna nad Tisou (on the Slovakia/Ukraine border) freight in the timetable but nothing appeared.
The day’s most interesting working was also the only one to get any sort of light, although it wasn’t full sun by any means. Rennsteigbahn’s (no I hadn’t heard of them either) 213.339 went south with a rake of empty timber wagons in the late afternoon. This was the same loco I’d seen yesterday. Another interesting loco was 223.152, which went north light engine during the afternoon. The loco carried IntEgro branding (another new one to me) although it had a Pressnitztalbahn EVN. I may have seen the loco on Wednesday on a southbound container train somewhere around Weiden in the early evening - the livery looked similar but it wasn’t logged as I didn’t recognise anything about the loco then.
Passenger services produced no surprises with the additional, Fridays only, ALEX services producing as expected. The REs are slightly different on Fridays as well but all were worked by DB class 610 DMUs, with Vogtlandbahn class 642 DMUs on the locals as always.
Freights were a bit less predictable than usual. The early Nürnberg - Cheb ran but I didn’t see the Zwickau, usually an excellent timekeeper, although a 232 did go south light engine around the right time. The empty car carriers went north again and a loaded train of car carriers came south, the first I’ve seen this year. The afternoon freight from Cheb, also usually reliable, didn’t run but the northbound did. There was also an Altenschwand (near Schwandorf) - Cierna nad Tisou (on the Slovakia/Ukraine border) freight in the timetable but nothing appeared.
The day’s most interesting working was also the only one to get any sort of light, although it wasn’t full sun by any means. Rennsteigbahn’s (no I hadn’t heard of them either) 213.339 went south with a rake of empty timber wagons in the late afternoon. This was the same loco I’d seen yesterday. Another interesting loco was 223.152, which went north light engine during the afternoon. The loco carried IntEgro branding (another new one to me) although it had a Pressnitztalbahn EVN. I may have seen the loco on Wednesday on a southbound container train somewhere around Weiden in the early evening - the livery looked similar but it wasn’t logged as I didn’t recognise anything about the loco then.
Pechbrunn
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 232.618 | EZ45367 | 05:19 Nürnberg Rbf - Cheb Freight | 08:36 |
Oberteich, N of Wiesau
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 232.609 | SB Light Engine | 09:37 | |
| 223.071 [VBG] | ALX84102 | 06:44 München Hbf - Hof Hbf | 09:41 |
| 232.527 | NB Car Carriers | 09:54 | |
| 223.065 [VBG] | ALX84111 | 09:40 Hof Hbf - München Hbf | 10:16 |
| 223.072 [VBG] | ALX84124 | 09:01 München Hbf - Hof Hbf | 11:54 |
| 223.071 [VBG] | ALX84113 | 11:40 Hof Hbf - München Hbf | 12:16 |
| 232.xxx | GA49996 | 10:05 Cheb - Zeebrugge Freight | 12:23 |
| 223.065 [VBG] | ALX84106 | 10:44 München Hbf - Hof Hbf | 13:42 |
| 223.072 [VBG] | ALX84115 | 13:40 Hof Hbf - München Hbf | 14:15 |
| 233.373 | EZ45369 | 11:39 Nürnberg Rbf - Cheb Freight | 15:07 |
| 223.xxx [VBG] | ALX84135 | 14:43 Hof Hbf - Regensburg Hbf | 15:18 |
| 223.064 [VBG] | ALX84108 | 12:44 München Hbf - Hof Hbf | 15:55 |
| 223.152 [PRESS] | NB Light Engine | 16:25 (IntEgro loco) |
|
| 294.599 | 56960 | 16:42 Marktredwitz - Wiesau Pick Up | 16:27 |
| 213.339 [RSBG] | SB Timber Empties | 16:59 (Rennsteigbahn loco) |
|
| 223.072 [VBG] | ALX84110 | 14:44 München Hbf - Hof Hbf | 17:44 |
