West Germany

Picture of the week: 50-485 Buch West Germany

Alan Ledger December 22, 2016

A class 50 2-10-0 50-485 is crossing a deep valley at Buch with a west bound freight train from Crailsheim to Heilbronn. If you look carefully the engine is attached to a tender with a guards compartment behind the coal space. These were not universal though. The engine also has a covered front valance below the smoke box down to the buffer beam, these were rare on this class in West Germany. We had come here to see the last

Picture of the Week: 001-234 Hof

Alan Ledger November 24, 2016

West German 4-6-2 2 cylinder class 001-234 stands alongside the shed at Hof its home depot in the summer evening sunshine after working the 16.34 from Neuenmarkt Wirzberg. This train was often worked by a 2-10-0 class 50. It will work the 19.12 later to Nurnberg. This was the last strong hold for the remaining few of this large class of engines and this one was the last of the class to be built. They worked all the express trains

Picture of the Week: 012-061 MEPPEN

Alan Ledger May 12, 2016

Another one of those West German 3 cylinder 4-6-2 pacific oil burners, 012-061. One of Rheine’s long standing allocations. It’s looking a bit worse for ware but still in good mechanical condition as the departure testified as always with these engines but not long to go before it will be finished and replace by diesels. lt’s the last time we would see them at work. Here it is standing at Meppen station with the southbound 07.50 Norddeich to Cologne. It

Picture of the Week: 003 131

Alan Ledger September 25, 2015

On one of our first trips to West Germany we managed to sneak round the steam workshops at Linen, closed for the weekend, on the Rhine Emden line in the north of the country and were surprised to see this engine undergoing overhaul and a long way from it’s home depot. We believed at the time they had all finished working in the west, 298 were built in the 1930s. This is a 2 cylinder light Pacific 003-131 which we

Picture of the week: 043-574 Lathen, West Germany

Alan Ledger July 23, 2015

A West German class 43 2-10-0 3 cylinder oil burner 043-574 with that deep distinctive 3 cylinder beat they had heads north for Emden docks with a train of loaded coal hoppers, these were big heavy trains and this one is seen between Haren and Lathen on the busy Munster, Rheine, Emden, Norddiech main line. Double heading was quite frequent on these trains. It was relatively flat in this area with very sandy soil, fir trees along with Oak and

Picture of the Week: 052-399

Alan Ledger March 19, 2015

Thought you might like another winter shot as this years season is drawing to a close although we could still yet have snow! Here is West German 2-10-0 052-399 working the 11.34 local train from Hof to Lichtenfels, west of Munchberg, high up in the eastern hills near to East Germany. This was taken on our cold weeks expedition to West Germany in 1973 mentioned before. Here we are plodding around in the deep snow getting more and more colder.

038-711 Picture of the week

Alan Ledger January 22, 2015

Ex Prussian P8 4-6-0 038-711 one of the last remaining three engines still in service at the time this photo was taken, February 1973. These three would be finished for good three months later in May. They were the last of a once 4000 strong class. The German railways gave them a great send off in the May I believe. Here it is seen leaving Freudenstadt with the 14.11 to Hausach which is near to the French border during an

Picture of the week: 038-039

Alan Ledger December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas! One of my favourite foreign steam engines, not big by any means but they were really photogenic. What lovely proportioned engines they were. Over 4000 were built from 1906. Here is an ex Prussian P8 4-6-0. West German class 038 number 039 (038-039) at rest on it’s over night stay inside the shed safely under cover at Freudenstadt, Wurttemberg deep in the Black Forest region of Germany. It’s fitted with an electric generator behind the chimney, then a

Picture of the week: West German 2-10-0, 052-817

Alan Ledger February 23, 2014

A West German 2-10-0, 052-817 is silhouetted against the late afternoon sunset on a bitter cold winters day, working the 16.43 Neunmarkt Wirsberg to Hof local passenger train. Heavy snow fell later overnight which made it extremely hard going on foot the next day getting out into the country side to take photographs. This is the Schife Ebene the German equivalent to the Lickey incline only with bends and situated in glorious rolling countryside, a walkers paradise. All the heavy

Picture of the Week: West German 012-055 at Rheine

Alan Ledger December 9, 2013

West German 012-055 oil burning 3 cylinder pacific from Rheine taken on a cold winters afternoon with the setting sun silhouetting the train. Here it is not long after passing Lathen, a small rural town in northern Germany, traveling at some speed with the 15.09 Norddeich to Cologne express. It wouldn’t be long before we set off back to our nice warm hotel by Lathen station for the night, having spent a cold winters day walking to different locations out

Picture of the Week: West Germany

Alan Ledger December 9, 2013

2 pictures this week, same train. West German 012-055 oil burning 3 cylinder pacific from Rheine taken on a cold winters afternoon with the setting sun silhouetting the train. Here it is not long after passing Lathen, a small rural town in northern Germany, travelling at some speed with the 15.09 Norddeich to Cologne express. It wouldn’t be long before we set off back to our nice warm hotel by Lathen station for the night, having spent a cold winters

Picture of the Week: West Germany

Alan Ledger November 7, 2013

This is a West German 012 oil burning 3 cylinder 4-6-2 Pacific, these things got thrashed, and they motored. There was no holds barred with these engines. You could here them coming from miles away, I would have loved to have driven one. It must have been full regulator from the very start if the sound was anything to go by. No worries about killing the fireman he just sat there and played with his controls, there was plenty of

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Picture of the week: 50-485 Buch West Germany

Picture of the Week: 001-234 Hof

Picture of the Week: 012-061 MEPPEN

Picture of the Week: 003 131

Picture of the week: 043-574 Lathen, West Germany

Picture of the Week: 052-399

038-711 Picture of the week

Picture of the week: 038-039

Picture of the week: West German 2-10-0, 052-817

Picture of the Week: West German 012-055 at Rheine

Picture of the Week: West Germany

Picture of the Week: West Germany

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