Jon WorthWelcome to #CrossBorderRail Day 12
Heading home to Berlin today, but there are a few things to see first!
PeerTube
And I’m on a double track mainline *that’s not electrified* AGAIN. This time Lichtenfels - Kulmbach - Hof
When @schienenallianz says Germany needs to electrify main lines, they could just basically put “Bavaria” instead. Because apart from 1 line in each of Schleswig Holstein and Thüringen, the rest of the priority projects are ALL here!
Mechanical points at Stammbach. Yep, someone in a signal box still has to shift levers by hand here.
Sod #CrossBorderRail
I need to start #CrossBayernRail
There’s so much you could do *comparatively easily* to improve regional rail here. All these non electrified main lines are absurd
Ok, the re-planning meant I have only now calculated everything for the train assessments!
#CrossBorderRail Train 46
RE 10 (58226)
17:05 Nürnberg Hbf - Fürth (Bay) Hbf 17:11
DB Regio AG Bayern
Distance: 8 km
Average speed: 76 km/h
Train type: Alstom Coradia, older version, 2x4 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (but badly designed narrow entry, although step free if platform allows)
🛜: ⛔️
🧳: 🤔 (I really dislike the design of these trains - everything is cramped)
🧽: 🤔 (a bit grimy)
#CrossBorderRail Train 47
RE 42 (4994)
17:46 Fürth (Bay) Hbf - Bamberg 18:20
DB Regio AG Bayern
Distance: 55 km
Average speed: 96 km/h
Train type: Bombardier Talent 2 EMU, 2x4 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if platform allows)
🛜: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (decent multi use spaces, overhead racks)
🧽: 🤔 (bit grimy)
#CrossBorderRail Train 48
RE 42 (4916)
21:36 Bamberg - Lichtenfels 22:00
DB Regio AG Bayern
Distance: 32 km
Average speed: 80 km/h
Train type: Bombardier Talent 2 EMU, 4 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if platform allows - but Lichtenfels station has a major problem with the main platform lift!)
🛜: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂 (cleaner than the earlier one)
#CrossBorderRail Train 49
RE39 (59303)
08:01 Lichtenfels - Hof Hbf 09:21
DB Regio AG Bayern
Distance: 95 km
Average speed: 71 km/h
Train type: 🐳 Class 641 railbus, 1 carriage
⛽️
🚲: ✅ (lots of space)
🦽: ✅ (but some stations not accessible!)
🛜: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (surprisingly good)
🧽: 🙂
These railbuses also have smooth acceleration and a smooth ride - good
#CrossBorderRail Train 50
RE3 (74013)
09:28 Hof Hbf - Dresden Hbf 12:06
Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn
Distance: 224 km
Average speed: 85 km/h
Train type: Alstom Coradia, more modern version, 5 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if platform allows)
🛜: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (decent overhead racks, and some extra space for large luggage at carriage ends)
🧽: 🙂
(Good seats fitted in this train - welcome given it’s a long journey! But Coradia trains have small and badly aligned windows)
And look what I stumbled across this morning!
Trans-Europ-Express
DB-Baureihe VT 11.5, parked up at Lichtenfels
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB-Baureihe_VT_11.5
It doesn't look in the best condition though, so this can't be the DB Museum's one
Feòrag@jon That Wikipedia article suggests that it’s part of a set the DB Museum wants to get running, currently in various places. The set the DB Museum has for display is, as of last December, in Koblenz.
@feorag it’s not. The DB Museum one is spotless. This was knackered.
@jon The article you linked to, the last couple of paragraphs of the section entitled “Einsatz für die Deutsche Reichsbahn und musealer Erhalt”, explains what this set is. There are parts of it all over the place. The DB Museum set is in the annex in Koblenz.
@feorag i literally saw the DB Museum one last autumn when it was in Berlin at the Technikmuseum. Either the paint has notably worsened (unlikely) or these end locomotives aren’t the same ones. Wikipedia doesn’t explain how many locomotives exist.
@jon I’m not trying to argue that this is *the* DB Museum set. I’m pointing out that the article you linked to mentions this particular set at Lichtenfels, says what it is, and what the plans for it were.
The set that was in Koblenz in December isn’t this one. If VT11 5008 = 601008, then it’s the one from Horb am Neckar that Wikipedia claims was scrapped in 2020!
The DB Museum set wasn’t in Nuremberg in December, that’s why I thought the one in Koblenz was it. Presumably it’s still in Berlin.