Gordonwis Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 On 04/10/2022 at 12:49, 31A said: I didn't become aware of the nearby industrial steam until nearly too late! We managed one trip by bus from Aachen, and were lucky enough to find the mine just as this loco was rounding up some coal wagons. After a little shunting, it headed off. We did go to the coke works as well and could see steam in the distance, but couldn't work out how to get to it. At the time I thought it would be the last time I would see revenue earning steam locos, not anticipating the fall of the Iron Curtain soon afterwards! The steam actually lasted until 1991-2 My brother and I made a foray to Alsdorf in December 1983. Despite it being mid winter we were able to hire bikes from a shop pretty close to the DB level crossing crossed every so often by the EBV locos. Cycling to Alsdorf and (especially on the return late in the day ) it was ***** freezing (the weather was snowy with little sunshine . The bikes allowed us to get to the second EBV site at Siersdorf. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Here is the Siersdorf action mentioned earlier 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 On 04/10/2022 at 12:49, 31A said: I didn't become aware of the nearby industrial steam until nearly too late! We managed one trip by bus from Aachen, and were lucky enough to find the mine just as this loco was rounding up some coal wagons. After a little shunting, it headed off. We did go to the coke works as well and could see steam in the distance, but couldn't work out how to get to it. At the time I thought it would be the last time I would see revenue earning steam locos, not anticipating the fall of the Iron Curtain soon afterwards! The steam actually lasted until 1991-2 My brother and I made a foray to Alsdorf in December 1983. Despite it being mid winter we were able to hire bikes from a shop pretty close to the DB level crossing crossed every so often by the EBV locos. Cycling to Alsdorf and (especially on the return late in the day ) it was ***** freezing (the weather was snowy with little sunshine . The bikes allowed us to get to the second EBV site at Siersdorf. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 (edited) Transition era in Germany - 1992 DR 132 (note evidence of recent renumbering to 232) hauling a rake if hired in SNCF Corail stock eastbound at Eisenach Edited October 5, 2022 by Gordonwis 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 The DB Glass train at Worgl (Austria). January 1982 . 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted October 6, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 6, 2022 I still have a huge soft spot for the Br232, an imposing and good looking machine, it is one of those designs that is both utilitarian looking and with a bit of style (in my opinion anyway). 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Saalfeld shed - October 1981.... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 5944 Posted October 6, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 6, 2022 3 hours ago, jjb1970 said: I still have a huge soft spot for the Br232, an imposing and good looking machine, it is one of those designs that is both utilitarian looking and with a bit of style (in my opinion anyway). A few years ago one was used on a diagram around Erfurt. I thought a trip behind it would be pleasant. I photted the inbound working, went to Erfurt station and saw it sitting in the bay with the stock awaiting departure, went downstairs to buy a ticket, and by the time I'd got back to the platform it had gone and a DMU was in its place! 😡 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 On 06/10/2022 at 04:40, jjb1970 said: I still have a huge soft spot for the Br232, an imposing and good looking machine, it is one of those designs that is both utilitarian looking and with a bit of style (in my opinion anyway). Probably the only Soviet machine that was universally accepted and even admired. The Ossies had a sense of humour when they named them Ludmilla. Probably not very PC these days, but big, strong, Russian, and female just about sums them up. I will allways remember them parked in pairs to keep the bridge in Dresden stable during the floods. Bernard 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 (edited) Dresden-Stetzsch, April 2015 Edited October 8, 2022 by Gordonwis 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 They were certainly more popular than the other Russian built diesels - DR Class 120, "Taigatrommel" - which tended to vanish fairly quickly from Germany after Reunification, though some still are in use in other Countries today. Saalfeld 1981..... When they were new they were actually classified as V200's and I've got one of the original side numberplates off of one of the class...... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 (edited) Nurnberg and Treuchtlingen, 1983 Edited October 10, 2022 by Gordonwis 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Jena Paradies, 1979 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 (edited) I grew up in Mansfield, Notts - an English coal mining town - so I was always pleased to visit Mansfeld (Sudharz) - ironically also a mining area. We went to the area as part of our 'little did we know what's about to happen' tour in September 1989... Here is 120 068 in full cry near Klostermansfeld Edited October 10, 2022 by Gordonwis 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Late to this thread, but some lovely photos and memories. Just a small request - could some locations and dates be edited in where absent? Some are obvious (station names), others inferred (Kornwestheim with the withdrawn E93/E94s?) - but helpful to know! Regarding the Dutch 1500 class (ex-BR EM2), I found them rather elusive. As with other NS electric classes, they were allocated nominally to Maastricht, which was where I mostly went looking but only once found one. As is clear from the photos, they tended to work on international trains out of Hoek van Holland! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Those days (1980s), I also tended to shoot mainly in black & white. Here's a couple of "foreign" workings of DB locomotives from May 1981, two classes that I'm surprised haven't featured already. 103 on TEE stock at Basle Hauptbahnhof, Switzerland and 181 at Strasbourg, France. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 One of these hasn't appeared yet either. Bremen 1980.... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flood Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 I went to Germany/Austria via the Netherlands in 1986. I haven't got many of my slides scanned but here's a teaser... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Morgan Posted October 10, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2022 (edited) Ratheim, Germany (near Monchen-Gladbach) probably 1986. It was freight only then, serving the Sophia-Jacoba coal mine and washery, Finally closed in 2009 and currently being turned into a new by-pass road, the station building appears to have survived though. Edited October 10, 2022 by Ian Morgan 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 9 hours ago, EddieB said: 103 on TEE stock at Basle Hauptbahnhof, Switzerland and 181 at Strasbourg, France. A minor point of correction if I may - there is no such thing as "Basle Hauptbahnhof". The main station is called Basel SBB and the separate station serving Germany is Basel Badischer Bahnhof 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 (edited) Another Hoek van Holland EM2! (note the exported British mobile homes) Edited October 10, 2022 by Gordonwis 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 10 hours ago, EddieB said: Late to this thread, but some lovely photos and memories. Just a small request - could some locations and dates be edited in where absent? Some are obvious (station names), others inferred (Kornwestheim with the withdrawn E93/E94s?) - but helpful to know! Regarding the Dutch 1500 class (ex-BR EM2), I found them rather elusive. As with other NS electric classes, they were allocated nominally to Maastricht, which was where I mostly went looking but only once found one. As is clear from the photos, they tended to work on international trains out of Hoek van Holland! The EM2s were mainly confined to Hoek / Den Haag - Rotterdam - Tilburg - Eindhoven - Venlo axis afaik 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 (edited) Hof, 1991 Bad Steben branch Schienenbus to the left . Edited October 10, 2022 by Gordonwis 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 (edited) A 103 at speed near Gross Gerau, 1992 . Edited October 10, 2022 by Gordonwis 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 The start of the 1986 Farewell Tour..... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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