Afternoon, everyone…

In spite of the unappealing weather that's come across Saxony today, I felt like trying to shoot another couple of photos in order to recover much needed strength. My offering for today but is something of a mixed bag of railway and tram images as poor lighting conditions weren't terribly suitable for my usual freight spotting location at Thekla.

?At Bayerischer Bahnhof, the southernmost stop on the Leipzig trunk line tunnel, 1442 104 was taking on passengers on the S 1 short turn working S 37620 from Stötteritz to Trade Fair Centre…

…and 1442 108 was working the S 5 service S 37563 from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Altenburg.

Inside the Crystal Palace that is Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz Station, 1442 118 was stopping on the S 4 line S 37422 service from Borna to Eilenburg.

Having ridden down on this formation, I then captured the pair of NGT8 car 1101 "Johann Sebastian Bach" and NB4 trailer 906 returning to the route out of the Klemmstraße loop near Connewitz Station. Due to engineering work on the Bornaische Straße bridge and the Dölitz depot being refurbished too, the Line 11E short turn workings out of Wahren have been temporarily pulled back to this location for their southern terminus.

This is currently the only pair of a NGT8 car and NB4 trailer, serving as an evaluation unit for several years by now. The idea had been to explore alternative formations in preparation for the withdrawal of the Tatra T4D-M cars, which but seems to be off the agenda again for the foreseeable future.

?There is only one track available through the bridge engineering site on Bornaische Straße. Here, NGT12 car 1217 "Travnik" is on Turn 1146 bound for Markkleeberg Ost…

…and 1227 "Düsseldorf" is northbound on Turn 1145 for Schkeuditz.

And at MDR Station, 1442 103, working the S 1 line S 37626 short turn from Stötteritz to Trade Fair Centre, was meeting 1442 118 on the S 4 line S 37427 service from Eilenburg to Borna.