Construction work continues at Wendlingen in preparation for extending the S-Bahn system to Kirchheim. This is part of a major package of investment by Deutsche Bahn which will see a number of extensions and new trains replacing the 1960’s built units that are still used here. The old units are in pretty good condition having [...]
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Stuttgart S-bahn Construction
Posted in Geography, Prototypes, Stuttgart, travelling on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rural Railway.
Posted in Br650, Geography, Prototypes, travelling on September 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Our first night on the bike tour was in Mühlen am Neckar, a tiny village which nonetheless has a railway station. Here you can see the 0703 service to Horb departing in the form of a ‘Kulturbahn’ branded class 650 unit. Taken from this distance you could almost imagine that this is a smaller station [...]
Driving to Altensteig…
Posted in Geography, Location, Prototypes on June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Former Terminus at Altensteig, now a bakery
Long ago the people of the Nagold valley (about 20km south of the fictional Körsch valley) transported their logs in rafts on the river, in similar style to American loggers. Here, river pilots would build a wooden dam with gates, wait until there was enough water, then open the [...]
Körschtalbahn Route map.
Posted in Geography, Location, Map on March 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Today’s post was to be about the ISO container that’s (Just) visible in the last post, but unfortunately that isn’t happening because (1) The weather is foul and I haven’t got enough light, and (2) I haven’t had time to finish the container so it’s equally foul and I didn’t want to spoil your evening. [...]
Location.
Posted in Geography, Körschtalbahn, Location, Map on March 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Or: More learning The Gimp…
Here is the location of the KÖB, just on the northeast corner of the Black Forest. All the railways apart from the KÖB are real, if rather inaccurately drawn. Spitzenwald is fictional, but the other towns all exist although Dachsburg is moved slightly. If you are so inclined, you can even [...]
Körschtalbahn history 1: 1891 to 1901
Posted in Alternative History, Geography, Körschtalbahn on October 25, 2006 | 1 Comment »
This is the first part of the history of the Fictitious Körschtalbahn. The Körschtal is a real valley that passes our village- but sadly it never contained a narrow gauge railway. All the details in this history are based on real railways somewhere local to the Körschtal, both standard gauge and narrow; and although the [...]
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