When French Army was in Germany

[popol]

Hi all

A few years ago, France had a few military camps all over Germany.
Every week end, numbers of trains brought back soldiers to France for a few days off in family.
These services were generally composed of all coaches.

Today, we'll follow one of these trains. The loc is a class 218 and coaches are old French USI/UIC. The route is Rübelandbahn.











Hope you liked the shots

Cheers

Paul

[jbilton]

Hi Paul
Nice shots.
The British ran trains through the Berlin corridor too.
Cheers
Jon

[popol]

Hi Jon

Thanks for the comment. Actually, these shots are not that old. The period is more around the end of the nineties, and the train is typical of that time. France still had a few camps in Germany then, even if the WWII was over long ago.
I think these camps were mainly for training purpose, and I think that there are now all closed. At least, such trains doesn't exist anymore.

Cheers

Paul

[jtiffin]

Excellent photos.

[777fred]

Excellent photos.

Screenshots . Nice to see something differrent, well done repo.

[popol]

Thanks all

Here's another bunch of shots on the first leg of the trip.


Here is our train waiting the departure time.




And we leave the station...








Through the countryside




A road crossing




First stop








We leave the train here. It will continue its trip to Strasbourg during the evening and will leaving the soldiers in the middle of the night in their hometown.

Cheers

Paul