Hellas-Express

Photo Balkanmodels: Spring 1984. Unidentified single car AA in Line 5 at NES Thessaloniki. The electricity masts are not yet there.


Photo Balkanmodels: April 1995, eleven years later. AA85 retired, but still in good condition, between Engine Shed and Carriage Shed Thessaloniki. Its revenue days are over. It is coupled next to an older 1950 Fiat AA. Behind it is a Sekgss-v car carrier.

christo.

To greek railway model maker. .make this model for us..as a favor,and I will buy ten pieces. .with different numbers..even as dummy behind alco A201

The ''survivors'':

AA 72 - Alexandroupoli's port



AA 74 - Nea Magnisia



AA 76 - Lachanokipi



AA 81 - Gefira



AA 88 - Lachanokipi (crashed)



AA 90 - Lachanokipi

theo wrote:To greek railway model maker. .make this model for us..as a favor,and I will buy ten pieces. .with different numbers..even as dummy behind alco A201

I agree, let's have a good model of one of these with a trailer instead of those horrible Ganz-Mavag things!

Tim

Many people are interested in a Ferrostaal model.

a FERROSTAL archive photo, posted by facebook user Christos Triantafyllopoulos

Hi Everyone,

To follow my favourite tradition of adding anecdots, it was common practice in the late 60s and early 70s to see a Ferrostaal trailer added to the Athens-Thessaloniki daytime passenger consists; this trailer was detached in Larissa and continued to Volos, most of the times behind an A200 or a V60 (!!!)

I can also recall having seen a number of times a Ferrostaal trailer (or even a dead motor unit) behind a V60 doing Athens-Khalkis; difficult to say if this was a standard or exceptional composition, but it is well in line with the standard practice of the Peloponnese network of using Mitsubishi (usually with one engine running...) + Ferrostaal trailer for local services (e.g. Olympia).

Cheers,

Iossif

VERY NICE PICTURE FROM FERROSTAL – ESSLINGEN AA71 PANO!!!
I HAD NOT SEEN BEFORE. I THINK IT HAS MOVED AND MODEL. BUT I HAVE NOT SEEN ANYWHERE ELSE EXCEPT WEBSITE CHRISTO. (MOTIVE POWER - SOLD OUT MODELS)
CHRISTO MAYBE KNOWS ABOUT IT.
FOLLOWING ONE PHOTO A FERROSTAL – ESSLINGEN AA81+P155+AA72 FROM 6 - FEB -1983 IN SFENDALI STATION. PHOTOS BY ARTEMIS CLONOS
BEST REGARDS TASOS

Athens, July 1, 1977 photo: Gerard van Vliet http://www.flickr.com/photos/spoorvliet ... 151161474/

Advertising the interior luxury for its time.


christo.