Monday 28 August Rainy Monday

 

Picture of the day. It is a very rainy day but the plants are now flourishing after the heatwave. I found this weed with pink flowers at Killwangen.
We set out this morning to see if we could find evidence of the SBB running in the Zurich streets near Escher Wyss. We found some cars of cereal that had been delivered but saw no SBB locomotive.

We then wanted to sample the new Limmatalbahn, taking the number four tram to the terminus at Altstetten, walked along the underground walkway to ride the Limmatalbahn tram line 20. It starts out running along the streets and then onto an existing Zurich tram system and then it sets out on its own to go all the way to the Dietikon and finally Killwangen. At the Dietikon we changed to the local tram which runs down through to Bremgarten where we got off and then went on to Wohlen, the end of the tram line.

Limattalbahn Tram

Dietikon-Wohlen tram at Wohlen

From Wohlen we took the tram directly back to the Dietikon and transferred back to the Limmatalbahn to go on to Shoppi  Tivol. This is a new, incredibly large extremely well appointed shopping center on two levels built on about four levels of parking but also with access to the trams and the buses. It took a little while for us to find the Migros restaurant which was very well laid out and contained the same basic type of food as we've been used to elsewhere. The toilets were immaculate and one of the problems I found was all the instructions for operating the doors etc. are in German, anyway I managed. From there went on to Killwangenbahnhof to watch a succession of main line trains come through at top speed along with a number of freights entering and leaving the yard.
We took the Limmatalbahn then tram 4 to get back to Zurich HB.
The seven section Zurich trams are very long indeed

Supper that evening was Zurich Meat Loaf with a fried egg and fries




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  1. MarkAugust 28, 2023 at 9:02 PM

    Very nice Colin. The top photo with the weed and tie plate in the background is interesting. I had assumed all railroads had switched to concrete sleepers and some type of clip to hold the rail, so presume the wood sleeper indicates this is an old installation. Interesting that it uses a large lag screw with a spring locking washer, that is definitely an improvement over spikes.

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