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Fredericia, Denmark, Lyntogs and More, 17 Aug 1984
On Friday eventing, 17 August 1984, I took the bus from Karup air station to Herning after work, and from there took train IC 180 behind MZ 1439 to Fredericia. This was really my first time strictly railfanning in Denmark as the other days I'd been out seeing some of the other sites in the places I visited. In Fredericia, I just hung out on the platforms for a little over an hour.
Fredericia is a city of about 40,000 people. From a railroad perspective, it is an important junction as it is the place where all rail lines in Jutland come together and funnel onto the line across the Little Belt to the island of Fyn and then to Copenhagen.
In the little over an hour I was there, I saw 3 Lyntogs, several Intercity trains, MR DMUs and a few freights with MZ and MX power, plus a couple of MH switchers. Lots of trains and good variety.
The Lyntogs were the DSB version of the German VT11. The VT11s were all first class TEEs, while the Lyntogs had first and second class seating. The Lyntogs had a power car at each end, a first class coach a second class coach, two second class coaches with cabs, a second class coach and a first class coach. The reason for the driving cabs was that the Lyntogs split on Jutland and the 2 sections served different lines, so 2 Lyntogs out of Copenhagen could directly serve 4 destinations on Jutland with one seat service. The Intercity trains offered schedules that were nearly as fast, but did not split en route so an IC ran through to one destination and other lines along the way were served by DMU connections.
Today Fredericia is electrified and the electric trains run through to Copehagen without having to ride a ferry boat across the Great Belt from Fyn to Sjaelland. The fast trains make the 215 km run to Copenhagen in 1 hr 46 min, quite a bit faster than in the days of the ferry crossing.
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Fredericia, Denmark, Lyntogs and More, 17 Aug 1984
On Friday eventing, 17 August 1984, I took the bus from Karup air station to Herning after work, and from there took train IC 180 behind MZ 1439 to Fredericia. This was really my first time strictly railfanning in Denmark as the other days I'd been out seeing some of the other sites in the places I visited. In Fredericia, I just hung out on the platforms for a little over an hour.
Fredericia is a city of about 40,000 people. From a railroad perspective, it is an important junction as it is the place where all rail lines in Jutland come together and funnel onto the line across the Little Belt to the island of Fyn and then to Copenhagen.
In the little over an hour I was there, I saw 3 Lyntogs, several Intercity trains, MR DMUs and a few freights with MZ and MX power, plus a couple of MH switchers. Lots of trains and good variety.
The Lyntogs were the DSB version of the German VT11. The VT11s were all first class TEEs, while the Lyntogs had first and second class seating. The Lyntogs had a power car at each end, a first class coach a second class coach, two second class coaches with cabs, a second class coach and a first class coach. The reason for the driving cabs was that the Lyntogs split on Jutland and the 2 sections served different lines, so 2 Lyntogs out of Copenhagen could directly serve 4 destinations on Jutland with one seat service. The Intercity trains offered schedules that were nearly as fast, but did not split en route so an IC ran through to one destination and other lines along the way were served by DMU connections.
Today Fredericia is electrified and the electric trains run through to Copehagen without having to ride a ferry boat across the Great Belt from Fyn to Sjaelland. The fast trains make the 215 km run to Copenhagen in 1 hr 46 min, quite a bit faster than in the days of the ferry crossing.