Bayerisch, Germany.

Wittenberg Railway Station, Germany

Hello and I hope you have stayed safe and healthy during the past few months. 2020 was going to be a great year for train travel for me with a few planned railway journeys in New Zealand. unfortunately it was not to be. The post has now resumed and I hope to start receiving my usual stuff from many friends. 

This is the first of many post cards that I hope I will receive this year.

In the meantime, please take care of your self during the travels.

Halle Railway Station, Germany.

Brockenbahn, Germany

Bremen Railway Station, Germany.

Leipzig Railway Station, Germany

Harz Mountain Railway, Germany

Mainz Rail Bridge, Germany.

Fichtelberg Railway, Germany

The Fichtelberg Railway is a narrow gauge railway that leads from the standard gauge international line at Cranzahl to the ski resort of oberwiesenthal in the Erzebirge mountains in eastern Germany. It takes its name from the Fichtel Mountain near Oberwiesenthal.  The railway operates only steam powered passenger trains. Steam engines of the DR Class 99.77-79, serial 099 772, 099 773, 099 785, 099 786 and 099 794 are the steam locomotives on this line. This postcard shows locomotive 99-794

Steam Locomotive 03 - 131, Germany.

Photo: M. Pohlmann

 

Preserved steam locomotive from 1933, nr 03-131. Photographed in 2005, the locomotive is on display at German Steam Locomotive Museum at Neuenmarkt. Known as The Little 01, in 1972 the tender of this locomotive was painted with the Olympic Rings and was stationed at the Munich Main Railway Station during the Summer Olympics  of 1972.

Electric Locomtives in Germany.

 

Electric Locomotives Re 4/4' 10034 and 103184-8 at the St. Magrethen Station in Switzerland.

Guterzugdampf Locomotive with a Passenger Train, Germany.

This is Locomotive Number 86 549 (Guterzugdampf Locomotive) with a passenger train in Crottendorf, Germany in January 1969.

DR Class 132 / DBAG Class 232 Locomotive, Germany

DR Class 132 or DBAG Class 232 Locomotives built in 1972, and entered the service in 1974.

They were produced in the Soviet Union in Luhansk, Ukraine from the 1970s onwards, and were imported into the GDR. After the reunification of Germany the Deutsche Bahn (DBAG) inherited them and continue to make use of them - mainly as heavy freight locomotives.

Here Locomotive Number 232 457 is hauling a heavy freight train loaded with coal through the country side of Germany near Narsdorf in 2006.

Trams of the Past in Cologne, Germany.

Different types of Trams used in Cologne between 1912 - 1921.

Steam Locomotive in Germany.

A steam locomotive in Germany. If I do find any information about this locomotive, I will update this post. I will be happy to hear from any one who may have some information about this locomotive.

Painting of an Old Steam Locomotive in Germany.

Giessen Railway Station, Germany.

 

Giessen Railway Station is the main railway station in Hesse, Germany. The station is a Category 2 station is used by 20,000 passengers daily. The station was opened on 25^th  August 1850 and is located on the Main –Weser Railway (Kassel – Frankfurt (Main)) and Dill Railway (Siegen – Gießen). The current station reception building was built between 1904 and 1911. The main original station building is a historic landmark and is listed under the Hessian Monument Protection Act

Lehrter Railway Station (S Bahn), Berlin, Germany.

Berlin’s Lehrter Railway Station has been in operation since 1882 serving the suburban and freight trains passing the city in east – west direction. In 1930 the rail system was converted to the operation of a light rail system on the S-Bahn and thus became the Lehrter Bahnhof S-Bahn station.  During the period of East Germany, the station lost much of it’s importance as it was now in East Germany divided by the wall. In 1984 the station was transferred to the S Bahn to the West.  This landmark station remains even today in it’s original condition.