Prototype Koln 2011.

[Roger Pound]

Let's hope my second attempt to post this message goes well ................Here goes:=

I came cross these pictures whilst tidying the pictures section on my computer. If I have put them up on WT before, my apologies, but I hope you have not previously seen them and enjoy Koln in September 2011 - good grief - where does time go?

146 007 has just arrived from Bonn after conveying me to Koln. I am the left hand shadow in the right lower foreground.

628 602 on a local turn to Koln Deutz My thanks to Yorkshire Dave for his help on this one,

111- 115 has arrived from the Dusseldorf area with a terminating service which it will propel back to its station of origin.

120 106 arriving with an IC train.

Trusting it all went well this time. Have a good 2021 whatever the pertinent circumstances.

Cheers,
Roger

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Can anyone identify this two-car dmu? I have lost my notes for this picture.

It's 628-602.

 

[Roger Pound]

Thank you Dave, extremely obliged. Picture now edited
Roger

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

No problem, I recognised it immediately as a 628.

My days in Köln go back to the 1990s.

 

[Roger Pound]

Dave,
I like the picture - had quite a number of journeys behind members of this class, but not 1601, strangely enough. Most notable was a return journey from Koln to Oostende when 1602 failed at Bruxelles causing a mass transfer to a service train with a class 26 at the head. Happy days, now long past.

Roger.

 

[Brian Daniels]

My days at Köln go back to 1980 when I first went to Europe spotting/haulage bashing and been a couple of times every year since, bar this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only 2 bridges over the Rhine back then as well.

 

[oldravendale]

I've happy memories of sitting outside a bar next to the station for many years before I retired when I used to go to Photokina. Good colleagues, good company, good sausages, great view.......

Brian