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Germany - From Berlin and Saxonia
to Bavaria
The line from Berlin passes through the
Prussian flat land and soon reaches the cities Halle, Leipzig or
Dresden. Then the line becomes more and more hilly, and finally
near Saalfeld the mountain range of the "Thuringer
Wald" or near Hof the "Frankenwald" is passed.
After that, the line enters Bavaria and is flat again. After
passing Nuernberg the line reaches Muenchen, where most of the
train end.
Since 2002, the very comfortable ICE3 express trains have been
introduced and are running on this line from Berlin to Muenchen.
The coaches are very quiet and make the journey to a pleasure. In
the direction towards Berlin the second class compartment is at
the front of the train, and passengers can sit just behind the
driver and enjoy the view from the front window.
Line Berlin-Leipzig
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Class 142, a former east German railway locomotive, in
Halle/Saale Hbf. The picture is from 1992-05-04 and the
locomotive has just been assigned to the West-German number
systems, so the number is painted on the body replacing the iron
number-plate, which it had before. In the background the nice
station building and on the right the huge water supply tower.
Photo Rail-Fan World
Line Dresden - Chemnitz - Plauen - Hof
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Nostalgic-train with 012 100 passes the Elstertal bridge in
1992-09-19
In 1985 the German railways celebrated their 150 anniversary with
a large locomotive parade in Nuremberg. After that, riding such
long-distant nostalgic train became popular for about ten years.
Photo Rail-Fan World
Class 232 with freight train passing the even larger Goetztal
bridge in 1992-09-19
Photo Rail-Fan World
A90FussballOberwiesen.jpg (136kb)
Youngsters enjoy playing football and posing in front of the
bridge, close to the station of Oberwiesenthal.
This is a one of the five remaining narrow gauge lines in Saxony
(in German: Sachsen), all with 100% steam traction.
Date around 1995
Photo Masato Tsuzuki published in "World Steam
Locomotives" Can Books JTB Tokyo, 1996, ISBN 4-533-02585-4
C2026
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The steam train is approaching the endpoint of the line in
Oberwiesenthal. This line starts in Cranzahl, between Dresden and
Chemnitz and is popular for rail fans and for tourists as well.
Oberwiesenthal is close to the border of Czeck Republic and a
famous ski area.
Date: 1995-05 Photo Hiroshi Wada
published in "Far Whistles - Rail Graphic Gallery" by
http://www.hikaris.com Tokyo 1998 ISBN 4-938951-62-2
The express train Berlin-Munchen has foreign passenger cars from
many different countries, the first from Germany, the second, a
dining car and five others from Poland, and the last one is a
sleeper from Russia.
Date: 1992-10 near Hof
Photo published in Eisenbahn-Kurier, EK-Verlag Freiburg
Line Saalfeld - Sonneberg
The Thuringer Wald is a beautiful area for skiing, hiking and
relaxing. In 1979 the class 95 was running almost all trains
along this line, which has two turnings, one in the famous
village called Lauscha.
Date: 1979-02-26 Photo Rail-Fan World
Line Saalfeld - Nuernberg and towards South
Two locomotives 01.5 on different lines in Graefenroda, near the
small town Saalfeld, which was in the late 70's and 80' the East
German city Saalfeld the destination for steam enthusiasts.
Date: around 1982 Photo Rainer Albrecht
published in 'Lokomotiven - a Postcard-book' by Admos Verlag,
Leipzig, 1999 ISBN 3-934042-27-9
Former East German locomotives class 143 has been repainted for
the sub urban trains in Nuremberg, but the color of the coaches
in this regional train RB 20428 Neumarkt - Bamberg does not match
at all.
Date: 2001-05-01
Photo DL, downloaded from http://www.eurorailpics.com/ in 2003-01
