St Blasien Hbf: Part 2
Leaping forward a couple of years from Part 1, we come to a point where it was time to start some serious planning. Having sketched dozens of potential trackplans and station arrangements, I decided that it had to be a through station rather than a terminus. Sometimes I just like to watch trains running while I'm doing other jobs and that wouldn't have been possible with a dead-end station.
Working on a model railway magazine exposes you to all sorts of people with wonde
Introducing St Blasien - Part 1
This all started in 1997 when I went to visit a friend who was at university in Germany. Rather than fly, I decided to go by train, via Eurostar to Brussels and then the famous 'Ost-West Express' on to Cologne. When that international train formed of Polish, German and even Russian coaches (complete with enormous-hatted Russian army officers in one compartment) pulled in it was like being in a spy film - I was hooked.
The year after I spent two happy months Inte
