Münster Central Station on Sunday afternoon, about 17:00. It is the blue hour, in a few minutes it will be pitch dark: only the snow is perhaps reflect a little moonlight - when he looks at all by the snowing clouds.
I'm waiting for a delayed IC to Hamburg. The long-distance trains in the north always drive by track 12 from the opposite strangely from the track 9 on the same platform. On track 9, the drive ICs in the other direction, and in Münster intersect most trains heading north and south.
Because of this snowy afternoon, both have a similar delay, she will cross well anyway.
our train arrives. According scoreboard, it is a Ersatzzug, which does not surprise me, because all the ICs are more prone to failure than the ICEs and drop out completely if you only see a snow cloud. At the IC replacement trains on the route I am used stagnated recently: few cars usually shorter, often without Control cars, and sometimes (from today's perspective) more adventurous color combinations for interior design.
In the other direction at the same time, 'is replaced by the IC 2717 late entry to Cologne', as stated in the web announcement German, if a train arrives late. This is also a Ersatzzug: And what for one!
because it does not drive any one Ersatzzug, but: The Rhine Gold! (Hintendran and three lost-looking RB-car)
In original finish, with the corresponding old electric locomotive and the observation car.
How cool is this please?
past I've always said friends from the old country over that Germany was better organized than Great Britain. In my country had the car it's not like on it with punctuality and reliability, and already in falling leaves in the fall it would start with the delays, failures, and funny excuses. Since the Germans had succeeded, as we have to face the trains.
Now, after years of true austerity and IPO preparation, the zero. But I can still point out that the replacement class trains are still here.
for the photos, I thank the Flickr users and Gregory Mundus kbs478.
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