VISIT TO RUGEN AND THE RUKB (RASSENDER ROLAND) DECEMBER 2022

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I have just returned from a holiday to North Germany which included a day visit to Rugen. The last time I was there was 14 years ago and I was interested to see what changes had been made. Looking at the timetables I decided that the best option was to take the mainline train from Stralsund to Binz rather than to Bergen auf Rugen. This meant that I had the choice of taking the narrow gauge train from Binz to either Putbus or Gohren. I decided to go to Putbus first largely due to the weather conditions. It was a pretty grey day and I wanted to take photos in as much daylight as possible. The RUKB were running 2 trains on a 2 hourly schedule with the trains in both directions arriving and departing together at Binz. I was delighted to find that I would be travelling behind 994632 especially as I have the LGB model of this loco. The other loco was the green 52H. So here with the photos:

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Locos and rolling stock at Putbus including the snow plough wagon and a blue diesel that I have not previously heard about:

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The rolling stock was in imaculate condition and looked like it had just come out of the workshops
 
Major infrastructure work is being undertaken at Putbus. Unfortunately, I did not have enough time to take any photos of the work being carried out. There are new platforms for the Narrow gauge trains. Here is a picture I took at Binz which may be of interest.

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Nice to see that the Roland is doing well, it did go through a bad patch. That green DR clerestory coach (1st pic in Post3) could be almost right out of the LGB cat as could many of the other bits n bobs. I suspect that blue Standard Gauge 345 will have been bought by the Roland to use on PW trains to the coast station on the SG branch as I believe they took ownership of that bit of the line when it was dual gauged some years back.
 
I believe they need the diesel because there is no run-around at the Lauterbach terminus so they run steam/diesel top and tail on the dual gauge section from Putbus.
 
Nice photos Martin, thanks for posting....
 
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