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)
There is a single track ahead, so trains stop here when there is red signal





JET A-1

railCare / Coop train

484 018








193 464 and 189 997



484 019 and 484 017




474 018



Mumpf
The section between Mumpf and Stein-Säckingen is single-tracked
484 016




189 999






Rhein river


193 470




185 565




187 007
Traxx AC3 with D, A, CH


Alfa Romeo cars



185 093 and 185 124


475 402

474 002






620 089





189 509


Here is the reason to single track
Eiken once again


193 527


185 584



185 567
193 493



Frick again


"I need Switzerland"