Location:
Rodopoli Serres

Line:
Thessaloniki - Alexandroupoli

Locomotive:
A-453 & Α-455

Train ID:
40877 Kulata(BG) - Thessaloniki

Date:
27/4/2024

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM5FDjQQDWE

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As mentioned previously, the second part of our trip to Bavaria was spent on the line between München and Mühldorf am Inn. Once again we came here to see the 218 locomotives of DB RegioNetz (which we hadn't known existed as a subsidary of DB before). An additional attraction was, what the Germans reffer to as, the 'Formsignalparadies' - stations fully equipped with mechanical semaphore signals. We were appearently very lucky with the amount of 218 locomotives working here, however not as lucky, because 218 in the DB Reise & Touristik scheme was not active at the time.

Nevertheless, all that together created an amazing local line feeling, reminescent of times long gone, which we hadn't really had the possibility to experience in Germany thus far. We also had had very few encounters with the class 218 locomotives working regional stopping trains and regional expresses.

Here DB RegioNetz's 218 452 is seen arriving at Thann-Matzbach with the RB 40 line train RB 27023, at 9:45 on the 23.08.2024. In the background is the main semaphore with a mechanical destant signal. Sadly, obstructed by a protective structure, which was set up there to prevent high-voltage cables falling on the tracks during maintenance works, which were taking place.

What this picture also presents really well, is how the line used to be prepared for a double track layout. The embankments and even bridges are already prepared to fit in two tracks, bu the idea seems to have been abandoned.

Photo by Piotrek/Toprus

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... mit dem planmäßigen IC nach Gera Hbf.

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