Van Lake, Turkey.

Interesting how many wagons they need to use to keep the locos off the drawbridge between ship and shore.

A Youtube video of shunting in Trelleborg harbour.

The ferry is M/S Mecklenburg-Vorpommern operated by Stena Line on the Trelleborg to Rostock route. It has got 6 tracks and a total track length of 1,048 metres and can take onboard a train of up to 945 metres. The crossing of the Baltic takes 6 hours and 30 minutes and this train ferry route is operated with this ferry and M/S Skåne.

M/S Mecklenburg-Vorpommern was delivered to Deutsche Fährgesellschaft Ostsee in Rostock, Germany, in 1996. It was transferred to Scandlines Deutschland GmbH in Rostock a year later and sold to GEFA Leasing GmbH in 1998 and in 2012 when Scandlines sold the ferry routes from Trelleborg to Germany to the Swedish ferry company Stena Line, the lease was taken over by Stena Line. The ferry has in addition to deck 3 with the railway tracks two additional decks for lorries and cars. Deck 4 is loaded/unloaded via a ramps in the harbours and deck 5 can be reached via a ramp inside the ferry.

The photo below (from Wikimedia) shows the ferry att Rostock Überseehafen and in the livery it had when operated by Deutsche Fährgesellschaft Ostsee.



It could noted that the ferry operations of Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Reichsbahn was transferred to Deutsche Fährgesellschaft Ostsee in conjunction with the merging of the two railway operations into Deutsche Bahn after the German re-unification.

Here is some videos of SF Ammonia and MF Storegut, on the Rjukan line. The ferries were in traffic until 1991. The ferry SF Hydro was the target of a Norwegian operation on 20 February 1944, when resistance fighters sank the ferry in the deepest part of Lake Tinn in order to prevent Nazi Germany from receiving heavy water.

Ammonia is claimed to be the world’s only surviving steam-powered rail ferry. She also portrayed Hydro in the 1965 film The Heroes of Telemark






Last day of official traffic, 1991


Norwegian tv 1981, https://tv.nrk.no/serie/norge-rundt/1981/FREP42005181/avspiller#t=24m55s

My own picture of Ammonia, taken 2015


The DF Ammonia and MF Storegut is also produced as 1:87 models, by Selco.no (sold out)
Picture from selco.no

Thank you very much. It is so interesting and substantial, don't you think we should open an separate thread about "seaside resorts railways at the Baltic Sea"? Because this thread is about "train ferries and barges" as you wrote in your first post. This thread here is also very interesting too. It should not be mixed up with the railroad system in Germany beside the Baltic Sea. 2 threads are worthwhile for these trains and ferry topics.

The only train ferry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, I know about, is the Wittower ferry on the island Rügen. But indeed between Wolgast and Usedom was a train ferry with scheduled trains on it too - ended Dec 1st, 1990! Come back to this subject in an extra post.

Not instead. I crossed both bridges several times purposely. Both (at that time) were the only ways to go onto the island Usedom by car. And the distance between the bridges (way over Usedom) is about 50 km. But my first destination on Usedom was the first spaceport in the world: Peenemünde. Beside the spaceport is a harbour. At these days filled up with the complete marine vessels of the just died DDR. I think in the harbour were about 50 or 60 all kinds of warships free for boarding by everybody. You could walk all around without any restrictions or limitations. I went inside in every room and see all techniques, weapons, etc. no restrictions, nothing. Was very interesting and unique. Probably a situation which never comes back. So the trains were not my first interest. Also I talked with people from the island about the train lines on the island. I only remember they mentioned an island network without any connection to the mainland. Even to Poland / Swinemünde the border was only open for pedestrians and bikes. So this train transportation on the picture was not a scheduled ones but certainly in Wolgast. This must have been just a special single transportation by whatever reason. For this transport they have taken the old prior ferry as a trail bridge.

But where I was looking for and could not find an answer: on top of this picture (half cutted off) stands:
"Wolgast, Hotel zum alten Fährhaus vor 1945". By your historic pages this Fährhaus was destroyed in 1945 and never rebuilt. But very strange this railbus on this pictures. I think I see the red logo from the DB AG on the bus. Then it must have been a single transport after 1994 (and yes possibly in 1995), when the DB AG was founded already. But also the riverside and the houses behind looks more like 1945 instead of 1995. Where did you get this strange picture from? It seems to by a mystically ones.

Lake Constance train ferries:
https://en.wikipedia.org..._Constance_train_ferries


http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch...59749338#1595359754583_1


http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch...2952&r=1595359859404

More pix:
https://www.google.com/s...amp;biw=1280&bih=800