Afternoon all!

 

While SWMBO and SiL were on a shopping round through Leipzig, me and my camera rode out for a little photo session at Engelsdorf Station in the east of Leipzig. As those of you familiar with the German railway scene will probably know, Engelsdorf is the location of a marshalling yard also, though it doesn't seem terribly busy on Saturday afternoons. However, I did collect some snapshots from both the passenger station and the yard...

 

 

 

Double unit of Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn class 650 diesel railcars, headed by VT 015 or 650 547 on the MRB80223 working to Wurzen...

 

 

 

 

...followed by 642 015 on the RB 26370 service to Meißen-Triebischtal Station.

 

 

 

 

This was 642 044 returning from Grimma on the RB 26369 service...

 

 

 

 

...followed by 650 538 or VT 006 on the MRB80220 service from Wurzen.

 

 

 

 

And two pieces of DB Regio's newest pride and joy of EMUs: 442 313 and 116 returning from Dresden Central Station on the RE 17068 service. The Leipzig-Dresden RE line is also marketed as Saxonia-Express.

 

 

 

Over in the yard, 290 505 was on shunting duty...

 

 

 

 

...as was 294 663.

 

 

 

 

Next, 101 090 was shooting through the station at the head of the IC 2037 service to Dresden.

 

 

 

 

185 045 was preparing to leave the yard at the head of a string of empty wagons.

 

 

 

 

The same formation we've seen before from the other end, with 442 116 in the lead on the RE 17073 service to Dresden.

 

 

 

 

And this was MRB's VT 016 or 650 548 in the lead on the MRB80225 working to Wurzen.

 

 

 

 

Back at Central Station, I found 181 215 stabled to the east side of the station outside the shed.

 

 

And to echo my earlier posting on ERs:

 

 

VT 137 225, a Hamburg type Deutsche Reichsbahn class VT 137 express DMU. The diesel-electric Hamburg type sets were built in 1935 and 1936, and were capable of 160 kph running. The Jacobs bogie, set underneath the gangway between the two body halves, was powered by two electric motors, while the two 302 kW prime movers were located behind the cabs.

 

 

 

 

Express loco E 04 01 - one of my favourite classes of vintage electrics, I might add.

 

 

 

 

E 44 046 – one of a class of 187 locos which pioneered the fundamental layout for all future bogie electrics with individually powered wheelsets.

 

 

 

And E 94 056 – this class having been nicknamed "Iron Pig" by the GDR's Deutsche Reichsbahn.

 

 

 

 

This memorial at the inner end of the "heritage track" was set up to commemorate the last deportation of 169 Jewish persons to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on 14 February 1945.

 

Lest we forget.