I really enjoyed this video, I'm from Germany and my favorite era of the Bundesbahn are the late 1960s and early '70s, my childhood when I first became a railway fan. I would like to mention, however, that the suspended monorail in Wuppertal is not known as "Wuppertalbahn" but "Schwebebahn" (elevated railway). The term "Wuppertalbahn" stands for a branch line that ran between Wuppertal and Radevormwald, partially dismantled due to the building of a water dam in the 1980s. Although no longer in service, the tracks up to that point still exist, one of the few remaining relics from the past in the area.
Thank you for the wonderful video, which reminds me of many scenes from my childhood. My father was a railway official, so we always took the train for all our journeys. The route along the Rhine was always particularly exciting for us children. There was so much to see there, the ships on the river, and the many castles, every tunnel passage a little adventure. I was particularly pleased that the journey also went through Wuppertal. I was born and grew up there. I took the beloved suspension railway through the valley every day. Even today, a trip on the train is part of my schedule when I visit the city. I lived in Hamburg for a few years later, but there hadn't been a tram there for a long time. I was surprised that the journey then took me to Copenhagen, but I was also very happy. I visit Denmark every year, and will be moving to North Jutland in a year or two. Your video describes many things that are very dear to my heart, and I watched it with great joy. Thank you very much.
another great movie. Nice to see lots of areas from my childhood. Me and my parents used to travel from sweden to denmark, copenhagen, on those white ships at 26.37, The flying boats where around up to year 2000 when the bridge between sweden and Denmark was finished. Lots of railroad equipment seen here has been around and in some cases is still running. The silver passenger cars at 37.07 are still around in some places in germany. There was built 5000 of them starting in 1958, they were named silberling as in silverfish. . and great film quality .
00:00 Germany 1967 (Heidelberg - River Rhine with Loreley - 03:50 Wuppertal - 04:30 Hamburg 10:00 HH-S-Bahn 14:00 HH Trolleys 15:55 Puttgarden, Ferry to Denmark 20:50 Rødby and Copenhagen ( 24:20 trolleys) 26:00 Ferrys to Malmö. 31:00 Germany 1971 Frankfurt ( 41:00 trolley FfM) Part 1 is amazing, but part 2 is sensational! Thank You very much.
The newly renovated round building at minute 13:15 is a bomb shelter from the Second World War, Zombeck design. Eleven of these were built in Hamburg at the beginning of the war, nine are still preserved. The core and the roof are made of concrete, the facade is clad with clinker bricks and the roof with roof tiles. These bunkers provided protection for up to 500 people during air raids.
A very good and interesting film from the 60s and 70s and in a very good condition, this is very rare today, the colours from the film are very naturly and clear and this is rare too. Thank you for upload.
And the traffic in the street scenes is absolutely fascinating! You can have endless fun seeing how many cars you can identify (other than VWs of course; they're easy)
Very good! Great film with just the right amount of narration! I have just driven from Avignon in France (where I live) to Hamburg where I saw the overhead railway still going strong and I saw many examples of the locomotives, now considered classics, in the science museums at Speyer and Sinsheim. Thanks for posting.
The locomotives in Denmark were mostly European versions of the famous American EMD F7, they were class My, the one with different cooling arrangement was a Mx with a smaller 12 cylinder instead of a 16 cylinder 567 engine, having less weight and less power it was for the lightly laid branch lines. During your visit to Frankfurt several E03 or then 103 in the new numbering system were visible which are recognisable by the double row of grilles. These are the more powerful series machines of 10,580 hp hourly rating. The one you mentioned in the first video as being a E03 but wasn't one is visible at 33:15and 37:35 in this video, an E10 or 110 "Bügelfalte" which means something like a pressed crease when ironing a shirt, this because of the clear crease in the nose of the locomotive. The other blue liveried 110s had flat fronts. At 40:06 a class 150 is visible, a freight engine with over 110,000 lbf tractive effort. And indeed the four wheeler trolleys, we call them trams in most of Europe or "Straßenbahn" in German speaking countries are already over 50 or 60 years old when they were filmed. The kid on the chopper bicycle at the end is a nice touch, these bikes were the thing to have to be cool as a kid then, unimaginable to have a kid go trough traffic on a busy city road like that nowadays, but there are bike lanes on such roads nowadays to make things safer.
34:43 A version for Danish State Railways (DSB) was produced of the Intercity Train (VT 11.5). Modified for the ferry service across The Great Bealt. MA460 (in service 1963 - 1990) is preserved with DSB. Initially in bright red colours, but in 1984 they were overhauled and painted in silver hence the nickname "the tinfoil express". Besides the MY and MX locomotives, DSB aquired MZ locomotives also from NOHAB in Sweden. MZ was powered by EMD type 16-645E3. MZ1401 is still operational with DSB Museum. Some MY, MX and MZ are still roaming the tracks in both Denmark, Norway, Sweden and some MZ's has even been sold to Australia.
2:49ff: St. Goar; 2:55ff: MS Deutschland (later Wappen von Mainz; scrapped); 3:01ff: Burg Maus; 3:15ff: Sterrenberg & Liebenstein= "Die feindlichen Brüder"; 3:28ff: Kamp-Bornhofen und RD Rüdesheim;
an E32 in Frankfurt !! I never heard of any coming that far north. Usually they could only be found hauling empty coaches between Munich Hbf and its sidings.
The diesel locomotives in Denmark were class My (and one Mx), built in Sweden and powered American. You might have recognised the EMD sound when you filmed it.
Great video. I'm really enjoying those memories and also the ideas for 60s/70s DB train make-up. Cheers.
I really enjoyed this video, I'm from Germany and my favorite era of the Bundesbahn are the late 1960s and early '70s, my childhood when I first became a railway fan. I would like to mention, however, that the suspended monorail in Wuppertal is not known as "Wuppertalbahn" but "Schwebebahn" (elevated railway). The term "Wuppertalbahn" stands for a branch line that ran between Wuppertal and Radevormwald, partially dismantled due to the building of a water dam in the 1980s. Although no longer in service, the tracks up to that point still exist, one of the few remaining relics from the past in the area.
Thank you for the wonderful video, which reminds me of many scenes from my childhood.
My father was a railway official, so we always took the train for all our journeys. The route along the Rhine was always particularly exciting for us children. There was so much to see there, the ships on the river, and the many castles, every tunnel passage a little adventure.
I was particularly pleased that the journey also went through Wuppertal. I was born and grew up there.
I took the beloved suspension railway through the valley every day. Even today, a trip on the train is part of my schedule when I visit the city.
I lived in Hamburg for a few years later, but there hadn't been a tram there for a long time.
I was surprised that the journey then took me to Copenhagen, but I was also very happy. I visit Denmark every year, and will be moving to North Jutland in a year or two.
Your video describes many things that are very dear to my heart, and I watched it with great joy. Thank you very much.
Amazing footage. Thank you so much for sharing.
Brilliant footage ! Amazing scenes from the disuded tramways in Hamburg (1978) and Kopenhagen (1972) !
What a wonderful and valuable document from a bygone era.
Really wonderful Memorys in good old Railrodtimes. ❤❤❤❤❤
another great movie. Nice to see lots of areas from my childhood. Me and my parents used to travel from sweden to denmark, copenhagen, on those white ships at 26.37, The flying boats where around up to year 2000 when the bridge between sweden and Denmark was finished. Lots of railroad equipment seen here has been around and in some cases is still running. The silver passenger cars at 37.07 are still around in some places in germany. There was built 5000 of them starting in 1958, they were named silberling as in silverfish. . and great film quality .
Fantastic very interesting never covered Italy 🇮🇹 or the UK.
00:00 Germany 1967 (Heidelberg - River Rhine with Loreley - 03:50 Wuppertal - 04:30 Hamburg 10:00 HH-S-Bahn 14:00 HH Trolleys 15:55 Puttgarden, Ferry to Denmark 20:50 Rødby and Copenhagen ( 24:20 trolleys) 26:00 Ferrys to Malmö.
31:00 Germany 1971 Frankfurt ( 41:00 trolley FfM)
Part 1 is amazing, but part 2 is sensational! Thank You very much.
Thank you!
For footage shot in the late 60's and 70's the quality is astounding! Lovely footage of Frankfurt with a lot of variety!
Great video. These were the good times of the Deutsche Bundesbahn. Thanks for sharing.
34:50ff: The Legend: From 1957 till the 1980s as Trans Europ Express one of the most famous trains in germany
The newly renovated round building at minute 13:15 is a bomb shelter from the Second World War, Zombeck design. Eleven of these were built in Hamburg at the beginning of the war, nine are still preserved. The core and the roof are made of concrete, the facade is clad with clinker bricks and the roof with roof tiles. These bunkers provided protection for up to 500 people during air raids.
23:45ff: Eine NOHAB AA16 (schwedischer Lizenzbau einer US EMC Lok)
the real railway!!!!! A M A Z I N G ....thank you for sharing!!!!
A very good and interesting film from the 60s and 70s and in a very good condition, this is very rare today, the colours from the film are very naturly and clear and this is rare too. Thank you for upload.
And the traffic in the street scenes is absolutely fascinating! You can have endless fun seeing how many cars you can identify (other than VWs of course; they're easy)
This is wonderful. Deutsche Bundesbahn´s most glorious years recorded in color and American comments.
Very good! Great film with just the right amount of narration! I have just driven from Avignon in France (where I live) to Hamburg where I saw the overhead railway still going strong and I saw many examples of the locomotives, now considered classics, in the science museums at Speyer and Sinsheim. Thanks for posting.
Great - Thank you for sharing these wonderful impressions!
The locomotives in Denmark were mostly European versions of the famous American EMD F7, they were class My, the one with different cooling arrangement was a Mx with a smaller 12 cylinder instead of a 16 cylinder 567 engine, having less weight and less power it was for the lightly laid branch lines.
During your visit to Frankfurt several E03 or then 103 in the new numbering system were visible which are recognisable by the double row of grilles. These are the more powerful series machines of 10,580 hp hourly rating.
The one you mentioned in the first video as being a E03 but wasn't one is visible at 33:15and 37:35 in this video, an E10 or 110 "Bügelfalte" which means something like a pressed crease when ironing a shirt, this because of the clear crease in the nose of the locomotive. The other blue liveried 110s had flat fronts.
At 40:06 a class 150 is visible, a freight engine with over 110,000 lbf tractive effort.
And indeed the four wheeler trolleys, we call them trams in most of Europe or "Straßenbahn" in German speaking countries are already over 50 or 60 years old when they were filmed.
The kid on the chopper bicycle at the end is a nice touch, these bikes were the thing to have to be cool as a kid then, unimaginable to have a kid go trough traffic on a busy city road like that nowadays, but there are bike lanes on such roads nowadays to make things safer.
Even in the 1960s Hamburg's rail system was just astounding.
Lovely views at Hamburg with V200s and 01 Pacifics.
very nice - thanks :-)
Glad you liked it!
1:23ff: Lorch; 1:32ff: Bacharach; 1:40ff: Burg Pfalzgrafenstein (Kaub); 2:07-2:30: Oberwesel; 2:30ff: Loreley; 2:42ff: Burg Katz (Goarshausen);
34:43 A version for Danish State Railways (DSB) was produced of the Intercity Train (VT 11.5). Modified for the ferry service across The Great Bealt. MA460 (in service 1963 - 1990) is preserved with DSB. Initially in bright red colours, but in 1984 they were overhauled and painted in silver hence the nickname "the tinfoil express".
Besides the MY and MX locomotives, DSB aquired MZ locomotives also from NOHAB in Sweden. MZ was powered by EMD type 16-645E3. MZ1401 is still operational with DSB Museum. Some MY, MX and MZ are still roaming the tracks in both Denmark, Norway, Sweden and some MZ's has even been sold to Australia.
2:49ff: St. Goar; 2:55ff: MS Deutschland (later Wappen von Mainz; scrapped); 3:01ff: Burg Maus; 3:15ff: Sterrenberg & Liebenstein= "Die feindlichen Brüder"; 3:28ff: Kamp-Bornhofen und RD Rüdesheim;
an E32 in Frankfurt !! I never heard of any coming that far north. Usually they could only be found hauling empty coaches between Munich Hbf and its sidings.
at last time of their life two of E32 and E52 do the same job in Frankfurt between 1969 and 1971
@givepastachance Thank You very much. I only knew about E52s. They where also used around Mannheim before being retired.
The diesel locomotives in Denmark were class My (and one Mx), built in Sweden and powered American. You might have recognised the EMD sound when you filmed it.
excellent!!!