9th February 2012 - SchienenersatzverkehrThursday 9th February 2012 The target for today was to get one of the former Austrian Railways 2143 class locos that are used on the Oberstdorf portions of the Allgäu Express from Immenstadt, the other portion of the train continuing to Lindau with the loco that worked from München. Another new class 223 for haulage took to us to Immenstadt where we eagerly peered out of the window to see which 2143 would be working today (there is a blue one and a red one) and the answer…………….neither! It was another Eurorunner “Hercules” diesel, a Dispolok hire loco – at least it was one of the few that we needed for haulage. ER20-007 at Oberstdorf A quick whizz round the ski resort of Oberstdorf then back to Immenstadt for yet another new 223 which was scooped in to Kempten where we decided to finally go and cover the line to Reutte in Tirol. This was one of those lines that we kept saying “must go and do that one day” but, having been unit only for years, we had kept putting it off as there always seemed to be something else more pressing to do. A further complication was that the line actually goes through to Garmisch-Partenkirchen on the München to Innbruck line but runs through Austria en route thus causing problems with ticket validity if using a Germany only ticket. No such problems today having a global Interrail so we set off on this scenic route to Reutte, where we would join up with track previously covered a good few years ago when it was worked by class 139 electric locos. Expecting to see a modern electric unit waiting at Reutte (the line is electrified from here), we were slightly surprised by the absence of any other trains; after freezing on the platform for a few minutes an announcement was put out about it being around twenty minutes late due to “bauarbeiten”, engineering works. Damn, don’t remember seeing anything about that when we checked through the DB website before departure. Our delight at seeing required 111.003 pulling into the platform was dampened by the news that there was a bus connection from Ehrwald Zugspitzbahn, bang goes the connection back to München at Garmisch then. The bus transfer was fairly painless and the road followed the railway down the valley but we could see no obvious signs of any work, it has since been suggested that the line was, in fact, closed due to avalanche risk but we find this slightly strange as it didn’t look as if much snow had fallen recently though there was a fair amount lying on the ground from previous falls. During the wait at Garmisch, we wandered over to have a look at the Zugspitzbahn, required track but we won’t be rushing to do it – it ain’t cheap! Once back at Nürnberg there was just time for a quick trip out to Feucht to get one of the hired class 185 locos working on S3, not long before they are replaced by some shiny new EMUs so it was a case of get them whilst we could.
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