A journey to Sweden, 1989: Rendsburg High Bridge and Flensburg

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The next twenty or so postings will contain about 300 pictures from 1989 from a journey by train to Sweden. There will be a number of "locomotives and stuff" snapshots, but also signals and interlockings.

This first posting, however, contains some pictures I shot in northern Germany. At Reinbek near Hamburg, I took a photograph of two semaphores and the well-known signal box in the background:

Starting signals N3 and N1, sigal box Rf, Reinbek, 15.7.1898

DB's class 103 was still a common sight throughout Germany—here is one behind the Alster in Hamburg:

Alster and class 103, Hamburg, 15.7.1898

All the following pictures of the Rendsburg High Bridge were taken from our train:

Rendsburg High Bridge, 15.7.1989

The following enlargement from the previous photograph shows the two class 218 locomotives pulling their train over the center span:

Two class 218 locomotives with a goods train on the Rendsburg High Bridge, 15.7.1989

Rendsburg High Bridge, 15.7.1989

Rendsburg High Bridge, 15.7.1989

At Flensburg, I took two images of a shunting signal:

Shunting signal 9a, Flensburg, 15.7.1989

It is amazing how much metal and levers are necessary to convey a single bit of information:

Shunting signal 9a, Flensburg, 15.7.1989

And here is our connecting train to Padborg on the Danish side of the border. In the background, just to the right of the signal box, one can discern the two arms of the cleared semaphore:

DSB MR 4256, Flensburg, 15.7.1989

The next posting will then show a few pictures from Padborg.