The big return!
When we were finishing our trip in Bavaria, in München Ost we spotted a member of the legendary Olympiazug family and were very surprised to find out that they still exist and run. We had started digging into the topic of the Olympic-trains, and it turned out that they also run in... the S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr and Köln, where we were staying with our family.
More digging was required to find out where and if they actually run. There was one answer - the line S68, from Wuppertal to Düsseldorf Hbf and occasionally to Langenfeld in the Rhineland. A few days later, we set out on an epic journey to the suburbs of Düsseldorf to see the class 420 trainsets. We were afraid, that none of the S68 trains would be the ones we had hoped for, but we were quickly corrected - all of them were the 420!
We visited many different places but none of them were very good for pictures, because of the ultra dense suburbia. Out of all, I like this one the most, and it shows 420 936 (please correct me when it comes to the numbering, I have no idea how the trainsets should be described :p) arriving at Eckrath as one of the morning S68 services from Wuppertal to Langenfeld.
A few days after we had found out that the S68 has started running mere days before, after a very lengthy suspension period of around 2 years (was that due to Covid?).
I was also very surprised to find out that on Thursday 10.10.2024, the last S68 train ran on this route, as I can't see it in any DB timetable since then. What happened to them? And more importantly - what happened to the Olympia trains?
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
The big return!
When we were finishing our trip in Bavaria, in München Ost we spotted a member of the legendary Olympiazug family and were very surprised to find out that they still exist and run. We had started digging into the topic of the Olympic-trains, and it turned out that they also run in... the S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr and Köln, where we were staying with our family.
More digging was required to find out where and if they actually run. There was one answer - the line S68, from Wuppertal to Düsseldorf Hbf and occasionally to Langenfeld in the Rhineland. A few days later, we set out on an epic journey to the suburbs of Düsseldorf to see the class 420 trainsets. We were afraid, that none of the S68 trains would be the ones we had hoped for, but we were quickly corrected - all of them were the 420!
We visited many different places but none of them were very good for pictures, because of the ultra dense suburbia. Out of all, I like this one the most, and it shows 420 936 (please correct me when it comes to the numbering, I have no idea how the trainsets should be described :p) arriving at Eckrath as one of the morning S68 services from Wuppertal to Langenfeld.
A few days after we had found out that the S68 has started running mere days before, after a very lengthy suspension period of around 2 years (was that due to Covid?).
I was also very surprised to find out that on Thursday 10.10.2024, the last S68 train ran on this route, as I can't see it in any DB timetable since then. What happened to them? And more importantly - what happened to the Olympia trains?
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus