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Germany July 2011 Part One

I've been meaning to sample the railways of Deutschland for a while, and July 25th saw me board G-EUUJ at Heathrow to head for Munich.  This was a planes/trains joint trip and the aircraft shots are to be found here.

After landing at MUC, I spent a while at the excellent Besucherplatz logging the aircraft, before taking an S-Bahn to Munich Hbf, a journey that took 40 minutes.  I then headed off to my Hotel, the Ibis in Central Munich with no thanks to Google Maps for the duff directions!  After checking in, I returned to the station to attempt some handheld nightshots with a prime lens. 



July 25th Munich Hauptbahnhof

After all that excitement, it was back to the Ibis for a well-earned beer!  The next day dawned bright and sunny.  Clearly this was going to be a photo day, and I quite liked the idea of spending the middle part of the day on the Besucherplatz at Munich Airport when the sun would be perfect.  To kill time, I spent the first part of the morning at Munich Ost, where there were a number of morning freight trains passing, in addition to the odd 218-hauled passenger service.

July 26th Munich Ost

With that, I headed for the Airport on the S-Bahn, before returning to Munich in the evening.  Not having any knowledge of where to go for sunny afternoon shots in the Munich area, I arrived at Munich Ost to find the sun straight down the track.  Grrrr!  I elected to take a spin on 111031 back to the Hauptbahnhof on RE79028.  Upon arrival, I nipped outside the station to grab some food and fotted a handful of trams while I ate.

Munich Trams 26/07/11

Whilst on the train from Ost-Hbf, I noticed a station where the sun angle would be perfect for any westbound freights.  It was called Heimeranplatz, and was reachable from the Hauptbahnhof by S-Bahn.  It wasn't as busy as I'd hoped, and a Munich Hbf-bound pair of Rabbits were bowled by a freight train in a lovely sunny spell which may have caused the German photographers assembled here to become accustomed to some traditional Anglo-Saxon language, but I still managed to come away with a decent haul of shots.



Munich Heimeranplatz 26/07/11

With the sky starting to fill in, it was back to the Hauptbahnhof on the S-Bahn and off to a fine establishment just down the road from the Ibis for a Steak and beer.

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