 Joined: 16/11/2011(UTC) Posts: 5,842 Location: Hybrid Home
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Good evening, Maybe news for people unfamiliar with Northern Germany. There is a train link from the German mainland to the popular North Sea island of Sylt, offering long distance passenger service from Hamburg. Trains with diesel traction are passing the sea on a more than 10 km long causeway, which was constructed in 1927 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburgdamm ).The only possibility to reach the island by automobile from the Geman coast is to board a train near the Danish border, the so called Sylt Shuttle. The latter is operating dedicated trains with double deck units for automobiles and flat cars for lorries and buses plus special units for motorbikes. Before the era of privatisations, this used reportedly to be the only profitable line of the German Bundesbahn. Alternatively, there is a car ferrry running from Denmark. Below websites are in German, but the pictures say more than a thousand words. Official Sylt Shuttle website with photographs: http://www.syltshuttle.d...ugpark/fahrzeugpark.htmlhttp://www.syltshuttle.d...schichte/geschichte.htmlFinally, a remarkable collection of historic post cards - some dramatically edited, showing consists pulled by steam and diesel engines: http://www.maerklinist.d...gdamm/hindenburgdamm.htmEnjoy. |
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Thank you for sharing this with us. I had no idea that there were islands off the coast of Germany. The island does not seem very big - so why do people need to take so many cars over there? |
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Originally Posted by: xxup  Thank you for sharing this with us. I had no idea that there were islands off the coast of Germany. The island does not seem very big - so why do people need to take so many cars over there? Because in most areas of the Island it is forbidden to wear clothes.  Or if forbidden clothes are optional. NN |
NOt wearing the Pink Pinny, which is hard to see and now I have a white Pinny which also is hard to see against MY pure white Skin Still have 2 new shiny tin Hips that is badly in Need of Repair matching rusting tin shoulders
and a hose pipe on the aorta
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Here some pix from my re-enactment three years ago (The layout does not exist any more  ). Greetz Alsterstreek attached the following image(s): |
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