Roast goose and lentil soup in the authentic Mitropa wagon
Muldental / Großsteinberg. “Step back from the edge of the platform!” was the motto last Saturday between Borsdorf and Coswig outside the regular Deutsche Bahn schedule. The background to this was the 150th anniversary of the so-called BC Line, which also connected the towns of Grimma, Döbeln, Roßwein, Nossen and Meißen. For the Eisenbahnfreundeskreis Westsachsen Böhlen / Großsteinberg around Reinfried Polter from Parthenstein, that was reason enough to put a special train on the tracks, which departed from Borsdorf at 8:24 am
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Stepping back from the edge of the platform: The anniversary special train pulls into Großsteinberg station.
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Getting up early was the order of the day for the nearly 60 passengers, which should have been all the easier for them, as the menu in the elegant Mitropa dining car included, among other things, Erzgebirge lentil soup and a goose with red cabbage and dumplings. For true railroad enthusiasts, however, the culinary offerings should be just a nice side effect of such a special trip. “If the old Reichsbahn technology is in such a remarkable state, then you should show it off, just like classic car owners do with their vehicles,” says Torsten Mundri from Altenburg. And the Eisert family from Kahnsdorf cannot escape the charm of old railway technology. “The special trips are always an experience for us, we ourselves haven’t seen this technology in action and we’re glad that there are actors who engage in that,” says 35-year-old Susann Eisert.
Hard core of nearly a dozen like-minded people
Actors like Reinfried Polter, according to whom the group Railway Friends includes a hard core of nearly a dozen like-minded people. For the special trip the day before yesterday they rented a diesel locomotive of class 112/565 from the railway construction and operating company Preßnitztalbahn, plus two high-speed wagons from the 1980s and, as a highlight, the Mitropa wagon, which, according to Reinfried Polter, is mainly used in transit traffic between the two German states was in use.
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The last section was published on October 25, 1868
Trains were first used on the entire Borsdorf – Coswig route on December 22, 1868, after the last section between Nossen and Meissen had been officially delivered two days earlier. In the previous eight years, the sections Coswig-Meissen (December 1, 1860), Borsdorf – Grimma (May 14, 1866), Grimma – Leisnig (October 27, 1867), Leisnig-Döbeln (June 2, 1868) and Döbeln Nossen (October 25, 1868) .1868) was opened for traffic. “The construction of the railway line was a pioneering event and, among other things, was of great importance for the development of the economy in this region, as it connected the industry that settled along the Mulde,” explains Reinfried Polter and regrets that the line is now closed is no longer continuously used in personal traffic in the Dresden area. “But there seems to be some movement in politics in that regard,” says the Großsteinberg iron enthusiast.
By Roger Dietze