Stuttgart area LHCS

[Please Explain]

That's what I was going off- but it seems they've been pressed into service earlier. Not that I'd purposely gone for it- I needed to be on that service anyway to do my silly loop via Cheb, Plzen, and Linz back to Nuremberg! (Which is quite a fun circuit, if a bit tiring!)

If you want some entertainment from Stuttgart to Nuremberg the RE services were running as 114+Dostos (or in my case, 114+Dostos+114)

Enjoy those while you can, Go-Ahead take over in December with plastic crap...

 

[D6700]

I seen those on display at InnoTrans, looked smart but the IC-wagens and 101's will be missed by me..
Do you happen to know how long they have left before the skodas and dostos take over?

Supposed to be starting in the Spring and complete by June, but I'm not holding my breath!

In mid-November, when I last visited the Velim test track, a pair of 102's were testing with a full rake of stock on the inner loop, whilst, Kylop pushed 102004 out to the exchange siding. That is half of the loco fleet!

These trains were ordered in June 2013 for introduction into service in December 2016. Following testing at Velim, main line testing in Germany started in July 2017!