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A Viist to Skagen, 22 Aug 1984
In 1984, my USAF reserve unit sent several of us to Karup, Denmark to support a NATO exercise. We had a lot of time off because EVERYONE wanted to go to Denmark and we had 200-300% coverage for most jobs.
21 Aug would have been a Tuesday and I must have had to "work" (sit around the dorm and chow hall area in case something broke) that day and did not get out and about.
On 22 August, I went to the northern tip of Jutland at Skagen, a fishing and tourist town that was reached via the Skagensbanen, a private railway that connected DSB's northern terminal at Frederikshavn with Skagen. I decided to try to ride all 5 of Jutland's private railways on my visit and after the Odderbanen on 20 Aug, the Skagensbanen was my next goal.
The Skagensbanen is a 40 km line that was originally built as narrow gauge in 1890 and converted to standard in 1924. It is still very much alive and well as part of the Nordjyske Jernbaner and now uses Siemens Desiro railcars for its services.
Skagen turned out to be quite photogenic and I spent some time wandering around town in addition to seeing what I could of the SB's facilities. SB used the Ym and Ys railcars that were the standard Danish private lines at the time, but they had some older equipment stashed on side tracks.
The Ys set that I took south back to Frederikshavn had a boxcar behind the railcars, a mixed train.
After looked around Frederikshavn a bit, my train back home was an MZ one coach and a mail car. I noted the train as the 1916 to Arhus, where, I presume, the mail car would have been added to another train en route to Copenhagen. The timetable says this was train 878, for those keeping score at home.
The DSB line to Frederikshavn goes north to Hjorring then due east to Frederikshavn. At Hjorring, the Hirsthallsbanen goes north the 16 km to Hirtshals on the coast. For whatever reason, I did not try to do both the Hirtshals and Skaen lines this trip....perhaps a late start in the morning would not have allowed me time for both.
My trip to and from was probably bus Karup-Viborg, local MR railcar train Viborg-La, MZ hauled train Langa-Frederikshavn and SB to and from Skagen, and then back to Karup via the same route.
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A Viist to Skagen, 22 Aug 1984
In 1984, my USAF reserve unit sent several of us to Karup, Denmark to support a NATO exercise. We had a lot of time off because EVERYONE wanted to go to Denmark and we had 200-300% coverage for most jobs.
21 Aug would have been a Tuesday and I must have had to "work" (sit around the dorm and chow hall area in case something broke) that day and did not get out and about.
On 22 August, I went to the northern tip of Jutland at Skagen, a fishing and tourist town that was reached via the Skagensbanen, a private railway that connected DSB's northern terminal at Frederikshavn with Skagen. I decided to try to ride all 5 of Jutland's private railways on my visit and after the Odderbanen on 20 Aug, the Skagensbanen was my next goal.
The Skagensbanen is a 40 km line that was originally built as narrow gauge in 1890 and converted to standard in 1924. It is still very much alive and well as part of the Nordjyske Jernbaner and now uses Siemens Desiro railcars for its services.
Skagen turned out to be quite photogenic and I spent some time wandering around town in addition to seeing what I could of the SB's facilities. SB used the Ym and Ys railcars that were the standard Danish private lines at the time, but they had some older equipment stashed on side tracks.
The Ys set that I took south back to Frederikshavn had a boxcar behind the railcars, a mixed train.
After looked around Frederikshavn a bit, my train back home was an MZ one coach and a mail car. I noted the train as the 1916 to Arhus, where, I presume, the mail car would have been added to another train en route to Copenhagen. The timetable says this was train 878, for those keeping score at home.
The DSB line to Frederikshavn goes north to Hjorring then due east to Frederikshavn. At Hjorring, the Hirsthallsbanen goes north the 16 km to Hirtshals on the coast. For whatever reason, I did not try to do both the Hirtshals and Skaen lines this trip....perhaps a late start in the morning would not have allowed me time for both.
My trip to and from was probably bus Karup-Viborg, local MR railcar train Viborg-La, MZ hauled train Langa-Frederikshavn and SB to and from Skagen, and then back to Karup via the same route.