2-Feb-2013
Spent an hour hanging around Aachen West today in the freezing cold. Being a Saturday there wasn't much freight traffic, but the overcast weather at least gave me a chance to shoot an angle I had long wanted to try. This is looking southwest towards Aachen Hbf.
The two leftmost tracks are the L24 climbing uphill towards Montzen/B, then there's an engine pocket, the two main tracks towards Aachen Hbf, and on the far right the "hill track" which is a shortcut for trains coming into town on the KBS485 from the north and rejoins the L24 westbound main just around the curve.
Unlikely to win any prizes this shot just shows a bit of the varied infrastructure around town that will be 100 years old next year (construction having begun at the outset of World War I). The church spire in the distance is St. Jakob, itself only finished 25 years previous.
Euregiobahn approaching Aachen West.
Spent an hour hanging around Aachen West today in the freezing cold. Being a Saturday there wasn't much freight traffic, but the overcast weather at least gave me a chance to shoot an angle I had long wanted to try. This is looking southwest towards Aachen Hbf.
The two leftmost tracks are the L24 climbing uphill towards Montzen/B, then there's an engine pocket, the two main tracks towards Aachen Hbf, and on the far right the "hill track" which is a shortcut for trains coming into town on the KBS485 from the north and rejoins the L24 westbound main just around the curve.
Unlikely to win any prizes this shot just shows a bit of the varied infrastructure around town that will be 100 years old next year (construction having begun at the outset of World War I). The church spire in the distance is St. Jakob, itself only finished 25 years previous.
Euregiobahn approaching Aachen West.
2-Feb-2013
Spent an hour hanging around Aachen West today in the freezing cold. Being a Saturday there wasn't much freight traffic, but the overcast weather at least gave me a chance to shoot an angle I had long wanted to try. This is looking southwest towards Aachen Hbf.
The two leftmost tracks are the L24 climbing uphill towards Montzen/B, then there's an engine pocket, the two main tracks towards Aachen Hbf, and on the far right the "hill track" which is a shortcut for trains coming into town on the KBS485 from the north and rejoins the L24 westbound main just around the curve.
Unlikely to win any prizes this shot just shows a bit of the varied infrastructure around town that will be 100 years old next year (construction having begun at the outset of World War I). The church spire in the distance is St. Jakob, itself only finished 25 years previous.
Euregiobahn approaching Aachen West.
Spent an hour hanging around Aachen West today in the freezing cold. Being a Saturday there wasn't much freight traffic, but the overcast weather at least gave me a chance to shoot an angle I had long wanted to try. This is looking southwest towards Aachen Hbf.
The two leftmost tracks are the L24 climbing uphill towards Montzen/B, then there's an engine pocket, the two main tracks towards Aachen Hbf, and on the far right the "hill track" which is a shortcut for trains coming into town on the KBS485 from the north and rejoins the L24 westbound main just around the curve.
Unlikely to win any prizes this shot just shows a bit of the varied infrastructure around town that will be 100 years old next year (construction having begun at the outset of World War I). The church spire in the distance is St. Jakob, itself only finished 25 years previous.
Euregiobahn approaching Aachen West.
See photo in original gallery.