Evening all!

As this Sunday turned out to be quite sunny indeed, I grabbed my camera and went for a round of tram spotting in the afternoon.

I decided to have a look at the outermost northwestern branch of the 11 line, which actually extends beyond Leipzig's city limits at both ends. In the northwest, the line has its terminus in the town of Schkeuditz, which is located roughly halfway between Leipzig and Halle and has about 17,500 inhabitants. As this branch includes a single-tracked section, normal daytime weekday timetables offer only a 20-minute interval for services to Schkeuditz, while the Sunday timetable offers a 30-minute interval. Usually, the line is worked both with NGT12 Flexity XXL type trams, as well as two- or three-car sets of Tatra T4D-M motor cars and B4D or NB4 trailers.

Before changing for the 11 line at the Chausseehaus stop, I snapped NGT8 car 1137 "Otto Mencke" on the 10 line. As a bridge on Bornaische Straße in the south of the city needed to be renewed over the weekend, the line was rerouted to Klemmstraße instead of its regular terminus at Lößnig.

Eventually, I arrived at Schkeuditz - which speakers of English would have to pronounce like "ShCOYdits" - where the 11 line terminates on the town's City Hall Square. There is a small car shed located inside the reversing loop, which is where NGT12 car 1227 is just returning from on its way back to Markkleeberg Ost.

As I now had about thirty minutes to kill, I walked back to the Altscherbitz stop, a few hundred metres from Town Square, where there is a hospital nearby. Here, car 1229 is on its way to the Schkeuditz terminus. This is one of nine such cars ordered in January 2010 in addition to the existing twenty-four cars from the original lot procured in 2005 and 2006. This new batch has coloured destination displays and LED daytime running lights, both of which are being refitted to the NGT8 cars as well - though not necessarily at the same time.

I then made my way back to Leipzig proper, both on foot and by tram. Here, I was in the borough of Lützschena - pronounced like "LYTS-chenah" - where there is a reversing loop which appears to be disused nowadays.

And this was the borough of Stahmeln, with car 1207 "Stuttgart" - one of the original lot - on its way to Schkeuditz.

And the last image for today shows car 1217 "Travnik" on the single-tracked stretch in the borough of Wahren, again headed for Schkeuditz.

Once again, thanks for looking!