Well fellow bloggers, sorry its taken so long to get this blog together. Here is one for the steam train fans in our midst!
We were driving along the autobahn number 71 in Germany when we decided to look for somewhere to stop for morning tea. Dorothy mentioned that there was a service area ahead or there was a brown information sign on the autobahn showing interesting things in the town at the next exit including a steam engine. Without much hope I said “Let’s go into the town”. We stopped on the edge of town and whilst looking at the information board to see where the railway station was located heard a steam whistle. This caused us both to look up and comment.
Loco in platform with people (photo 2347)
We drove into the railway station and there was a little 0-8-0 standard gauge steam tank engine on a few carriages and lots of people on the platform. Apparently the train runs once a fortnight and Mellrichstadt is one end of the line where the train comes in and the loco runs around the train and returns. There is cross platform interface to the regional DB (German Railways) services, one of which came past just before the steam engine departed.
Photo number 407, loco 98-886 departing Mellrichstadt
Loconumber 98-886 departing Mellrichstadt (Photo number 407)
All the people got back in the carriages and at 11:10 the train departed for Fladungen, giving quite an impressive smoky and noisy display. Dorothy and Gary were the only people (Gunzels) left watching from the trackside in this nice little town.
As well as this Rhon-Zugle steam train every two weeks, there was a good camping place for mobile homes so Mellrichstadt is quite well rated!
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