Trains and other things: Krnjača, Stara Pazova, Eiken, Stein-Säckingen, Mumpf

Friday, October 4, 2024

Krnjača, Stara Pazova, Eiken, Stein-Säckingen, Mumpf

This post will cover Serbia and Switzerland.

I'm at the Крњача Krnjača station, which is on the railway line Belgrade-Vršac

The line is only electrified until Pančevo; it is not electrified further to Vršac and Timișoara in Romania.

There are frequent local services between Batajnica and Pancevo operated by this ŽS series 412

Not all of the trains are painted with graffiti, here is one without

This train type was built by Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca (RVR) between 1980-1990, and there are 50 units of this type.

Small birds

Big birds

At the station Ресник Resnik, I can spot this Romanian locomotive

It's the Class 040

Class ŽS series 444 at Stara Pazova

Station cat

1116 026

The international version of Taurus supporting A, D, H, RO, BG, HR, CH, CZ, SRB

These are precisely the same wagons (TEN SK-VTGCH) I saw recently in Greece, Thessaloniki, so it might be on the way to Greece, passing through North Macedonia

Novi Belgrade

Trams in Belgrade

And now I'm in Switzerland

Frick

Eiken station

Now we're talking, here is the railway with plenty of freight trains

475 403

Pendolino train

Domestic 484 002

De-icing salt

193 833

193 278 and 193 596

International 474 015 and 474 016 supporting CH and I

193 497

Stein-Säckingen

484 016

185 586 and 185 582

RheinCargo GmbH & Co. KG (RheinCargo) operates one of the largest inland port operations in Europe (in Düsseldorf, Neuss, and Cologne) and is also active as a private railway transport company (EVU) in rail freight transport. The company owns six inland ports with a total turnover of 25.4 million tons (2018) on 560 hectares of land. These include four ports in Cologne (Godorf, Deutz, Niehl I, and Niehl II), the port in Neuss, and the Düsseldorf Harbor as well as the port in Düsseldorf-Reisholz. With around 90 own locomotives and around 700 freight cars, the company carries around 20 million tonnes of freight per year. (Wikipedia)