Heerlijke video met de Etoile du Nord en de verbijsterende hoeveelheid ertstreinen. We zijn ruim 30 jaar later maar het is er niet beter op geworden, probeer nu maar eens van Amsterdam naar Brussel te reizen zonder een reservering te moeten maken op de Thalys, en de staalindustrie is zo goed als geheel gestorven in België.
At 13:21 a HLE 25.5, on what looks like a Capitol train to Paris, via Brussel-Zuid. The Mistral by any chance? I thought once the 25.5's lost their Benelux duties, they were cast aside to just freight duties. Lovely Capture Geert.
That train with the Inox coaches was the EC (Eurocity) 82/87 'Etoile du Nord' Amsterdam to Paris-Nord and back, the coaches were very similar to the type used in the Mistral but specifically built for service to the Benelux countries, they were named Inox-PBA and had some differences. The Mistral did run from Paris to the Mediterranean coast, the Capitole did run on the Paris-Toulouse stretch. The other train behind a 25.5 with the Corail/UIC/Eurofima coaches was a train from the series 281-89, all from Amsterdam to Paris. The 25.5 had been withdrawn from the Benelux trains, the new train in this video was in service for about a year when this was shot, but the 25.5 remained regular visitors to the Netherlands for other international traffic, even including freight.
Heerlijke video met de Etoile du Nord en de verbijsterende hoeveelheid ertstreinen.
We zijn ruim 30 jaar later maar het is er niet beter op geworden, probeer nu maar eens van Amsterdam naar Brussel te reizen zonder een reservering te moeten maken op de Thalys, en de staalindustrie is zo goed als geheel gestorven in België.
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At 13:21 a HLE 25.5, on what looks like a Capitol train to Paris, via Brussel-Zuid. The Mistral by any chance? I thought once the 25.5's lost their Benelux duties, they were cast aside to just freight duties. Lovely Capture Geert.
That train with the Inox coaches was the EC (Eurocity) 82/87 'Etoile du Nord' Amsterdam to Paris-Nord and back, the coaches were very similar to the type used in the Mistral but specifically built for service to the Benelux countries, they were named Inox-PBA and had some differences.
The Mistral did run from Paris to the Mediterranean coast, the Capitole did run on the Paris-Toulouse stretch.
The other train behind a 25.5 with the Corail/UIC/Eurofima coaches was a train from the series 281-89, all from Amsterdam to Paris.
The 25.5 had been withdrawn from the Benelux trains, the new train in this video was in service for about a year when this was shot, but the 25.5 remained regular visitors to the Netherlands for other international traffic, even including freight.
Mazel tov!