Neuburg Heumarkt

In the top right hand corner of Germany is the town Neuburg. It has two terminal stations, unusually. The main one serves all through trains for the cities such as Leipzig, Hamburg and Berlin.

Neuburg Heumarkt is much more mundane than that. Its services are mainly to the coastal towns serving some of the islands and the outlying parts of Neuburg itself. It does have a Mitropa servicing depot, which means that parts of the trains from the HBf appear here. The dining cars are replenished and sleeping cars have their bedding etc renewed.

Its minor league status does have benifits from the EisenbahnFreunde point of view. The services you are watching are involved in a DieselLokFest week. To celebrate the opportunities recently availed by the falling of the Wall, some locos from the West may be seen on services to the coast in particular. It helps improve ridership, if nothing else.

Okay, so what you have just read is fiction. It is not too far from the truth. DB/DBAG are not want for excuses to use their Muesemsloks on services during the summer. It can catch the unwary enthusiast by surprise to see a streamlined pacific glide into the platform adjacent to the modern double deck car you are currently sitting in. Another reason for the fiction is the availability of the Berlinnerbahn/Tillig models themselves. All you see on the layout were manufactured in the 1980’s-90’s and were bought here. The scale is still popular over on the mainland but not as common as HO or N.

If you have any questions about the model or modelling in general do please ask the operator.