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Railways through Europe |
maps and interoperabilty |
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Venlo (Netherlands - Germany)
Venlo consists of two parts, the passenger section is equipped with switchable tracks,
whereas the freight section is divided into two parts.
As the trains from Germany don't run to Eindhoven anymore, only few use of the
passenger section is made. Hourly push-pull-trains change their direction
under 15 kV 16 2/3 Hz.
With the increasing number of services by private freight operators (e.g. R4C and DLC),
the fraction of diesels running through has also raised.
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various impressions from Venlo, taken on 20. August 2004
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former times at Venlo
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DB class 155 at
Venlo, 29. May 1999
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On 29. May 1999 the international services Cologne-Einhoven were discontinued due
to a lack of passengers, as the official explanation was.
For this special occasion the last "D-trains" were hauled by historic locos on
the Dutch part of their service. The interested trainspotters saw NS 1202 (blue livery),
NS 1301 (yellow livery) and NS 1501 (black livery).
In the fifties and sixties there was a need for 1500 DC locos in the Netherlands.
Because they had become superfluous in Britain, NS bought some locos of BR class
27000. They have been repainted yellow and grey livery and have been mainly in use
between Den Haag - Venlo.
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Despite of this one, two other locos of the same class are exhibited British museums:
One is Manchester (in yellow/grey NS-livery), the other one is coloured in British
Rail Blue and was back - temporarily painted green - to the continent in 1989 to
celebrate the 150th birthday of
Dutch railways. NS 1501 has been repainted in yellow/grey NS-livery a couple of years
ago.
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Thanks to Rian van der Borgt and Richard Krol
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page last updated: 26. March 2018 |
©1998-2013 Thorsten Büker |
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