{"id":3730,"date":"2024-02-01T02:29:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T02:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/cross-border-service-coming-soon-4\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T02:29:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T02:29:06","slug":"cross-border-service-coming-soon-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/cross-border-service-coming-soon-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-border Service Coming Soon (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim<\/span><\/p>\n (Land-)Kreise stand at an intermediate level of administration between each state (L\u00e4nder) and the municipalities (Gemeinden) within it.<\/span><\/p>\n So now we know.<\/p>\n For Lankreis, think “County”, for Kreisfrie Stadt think “Unitary Authority”. Between these and the national government are the “Lander” (umlaut missing!) which are “States” with substantial amounts of devolved government – think “Wales”, sort of.<\/p>\n Unusually, the County of Bad Bentheim runs a railway company. It is called Bentheimer Eisenbahn<\/span> – i.e. iron way. i.e. rail way. The County has been tunning trains for about 129 years!<\/p>\n Imagine Devon County owning and running the line between Exeter and Barnstaple; but you would have to add in a busy freight terminal about half way along the route!<\/p>\n So, here follows a summary timeline of the Bentheim County railway company.<\/p>\n 1895 – line opened between Bad Bentheim north to Nordhorn<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n <\/p><\/div>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n No idea really; but something like the above.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n 2026 – passenger service due to be restored to Coevorden.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n After hours on on-line research (actually fbb happend upon it when look for something else!) your uncertain blogger can now reveal that this is shown before a level crossing and means that it is clear for the train to cross. You would assume that it only apples to lightly used lines. To help the driver, there is a warning board which is where the track circuit for the crossing is actuated.<\/span><\/p>\n German railway signalling is fiendishly complicated and well beyond fbb’s pay grade!<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p><\/div>\n There are no boundary fences, of course, except at a bus stop.<\/p>\n The possibly working track veers away from the rain road and swings round to cross it and, at the crossing just stops!<\/p>\n … but none on both sides.<\/p>\n There are some industrial premises away from the eagle eye of Streetview, so maybe a rail link is (or was) preserved to provide for works traffic.<\/p>\n Nothing is traceable at the Gronau end, not helped by the fact that Streetview is incomplete in Germany.<\/p>\n Erstwhile Dutch : Electric? Diesel?<\/p>\n Evidently Extremely Electric!<\/p><\/div>\n A Wonderful Walkway<\/span><\/p>\n The 1973 Hornby old tool has a solid walkway with over scale representation of said giris.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An Old Buffer Looks At New Buffers<\/span><\/p>\n Bachmann has a moulded hook but no dangly bits, it has metal buffers\u00a0 and a smaller coupling; but there is not much other detail.<\/p>\n The buffers are more detailed and there is a mysterious bit of pipe between buffer and coupling. There is the bracket for the tail lamp and a small hole.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n Maybe yes; but if you glue the pin into the hole, the dangling pipes may well foul the coupling. But as fbb’s tank wagon collection is not for use on the working layout, he will maybe fit them.<\/p><\/div>\n And now the buffer pished back agaunst its little spring by fbb’s great podgy thumb!<\/p>\n
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