Today I'm in Germany. I will be traveling along Main-Spessart railway between Frankfurt and Würzburg.
Frankfurt Flughafen railway station is connecting the busiest airport in Germany and the 4th busiest in Europe with a long-distance railway network throughout all of Germany.
This station opened in 1999 together with the first real high-speed railway Cologne-Frankfurt (300km/h) in Germany
Main station hall
The station has everything you need including Bavarian food restaurant
Some regional trains are using the long-distance station. Otherwise, there is an S-Bahn station nearby which opened in 1972, it was the first railway station built at an airport in West Germany.
Alstom Coradia Continental at Hösbach station
Inside the train
Later on I will be taking the double deck Twindexx train, here is a photo from inside
This part of the railway is shared between all type of trains
Class 185 Traxx
Class 403 ICE
Class 407 ICE
193 811
More of class 185, both Traxx AC1 and AC2
Langenprozelten, where I have arrived with a Twindexx train. Class 152 is passing by
ES 64 U2 - 034
Wenzel logistics train
Hanover-Würzburg high speed railway is passing by here
Changing trains at Gemünden am Main
193 234, TXL Logistik
193 708, Mercitalia
The locomotive for D, A, CH, I, NL
185 576, Lokomotion Gesellschaft für Schienentraktion mbH
My next train is heading to Bamberg
Wernfeld
185 251
193 536, boxXpress.de
193 990, ecco-rail GmbH
Ekol logistics
193 760, ecco-rail GmbH
Nordic Bulkers AB
Himmelstadt
185 365
Cargo wagons from Sweden
185 610, RTB Cargo
187 139
193 609, boxXpress.de
Somebody is living here, the best view but a bit noisy
Heavy train
193 999, RTB Cargo
Györ livery
1293 183
193 264, TX Logistik
"Born to Rail" livery
Finally, I can spot something new (for me)
159 235, MEG - Mitteldeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH
Eurodual - the new locomotive on european railroads
I've already seen one in Norway (Green Cargo) and two in Germany (BSAS, VTG), and I will see more of them in the coming months
186 423, RTB Cargo
185 596, LTE
193 555, TX Logistik at Thüngersheim
One of the more beautiful locos, and this is the best photo I get
193 857
I think I got a jackpot in terms of the amount of cargo trains today
The line is busy connecting southeast with western and northern Germany
193 241, ecco-rail
185 614, Crossrail
Veitshöchheim
Right next to the station is the Schloss Veitshöchheim
After seing 100's of trains today, it is time for some culture
This summer palace of the Prince-Bishops of Würzburg was built in 1680–82, and was enlarged to its present appearance in 1753 by Balthasar Neumann. The gardens were redesigned for Prince-Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim (1755–1779), with lakes and waterworks, and filled with hundreds of allegorical sandstone sculptures from the workshops of the court sculptors Ferdinand Tietz and Johann Peter Wagner. (Wikipedia)
Back to rail
185 574, RTB Cargo
The map of Main-Spessart Express line
Würzburg
From Würzburg to Frankfurt by ICE train
ETR 610 at Frankfurt
The train is used for ECE service Frankfurt-Basel-Milano
2G+ or booster requirement to use restaurants
Boarding my plane to Stockholm (via Copenhagen)
