European Rail - East German Trains - Dresden - 06th August 1991

We now spend some time at Dresden Station in the Former East Germany where we see plenty of diesel and electric hauled trains.

[@naan-oyobizniz3168]

Back when trains would cause your eardrums to tear apart! Lovely old times.

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Yes that's the one thing I remember , all that noise!

[@AndreiTupolev]

Wonderful quality footage, some real classic traction there. Those Class 118s look particularly immaculate.

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Thank you, It certainly isn't the same these days. Always loved the loco of those former Eastern Bloc locos, just something about them!

[@josefsaller8230]

Schöne Erinnerungen an eine längst untergegangen Eisenbahnweilt...😢😢😢😢 Daumen hoch 👍🏻 für das zeigen!

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Vielen Dank und das ist mit Abstand mein beliebtestes Video! Ich bin auf jeden Fall froh, dass ich es geschafft habe, so viel zu sehen wie damals!

[@vchiu9560]

Französicher Eisenbahnfan hier. Tolle Video einer Verschwundenen Aera. Heute haben die Triebfahrzeuge mehrere Personenzüge ersetzt. French railway fan here. Excellent video from a bygone age. Most trains were Loco-hauled whereas today , many are EMU or DMU.

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Vielen Dank aus Neuseeland, und ich hoffe, Sie haben einige meiner anderen Sachen genossen!

[@jontownsend8090]

Just found this footage, absolutely priceless. Thanks for uploading. I was only a young lad at the time, so couldn't just leave my parents to go exploring like I can now.

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

You are most welcome and this is by far my most viewed video on my channel! I hope you have checked out some of my other stuff!

[@Isochest]

Brilliant now vintage footage from right at the end of the Warsaw pact! A joy to watch.

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Thank you. I am glad I was able to visit when I did! Keep an eye out for some more of my European stuff which I must get around to uploading!

[@j.rudolf]

Das waren schöne Zeiten !👍👍👍

[@MrTeinnorHD]

It's like walking in a video game after finishing it.

[@TRSPomerania]

Awesome priceless footage! Thank you very much for sharing, cheers from Poland!

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

No worries. Keep a look out as plenty more to come from around Europe!

[@efbeVideo]

Fantastic footage! A great view on the daily operations at Dresden Hbf at that time. Unfortunately I took only pictures that time and wasn't capturing anything on Video - so thank you for sharing this clip! Thumbs up!

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Glad you enjoyed , I mostly only took video over that period although still plenty of photos! I hope you are enjoying some of my other stuff and I still have plenty of European stuff to upload!

[@paulhambleton8932]

Fine thanks

[@beateinwerfer1]

I was only 6 years old and lived in dresden. Tanks for sharing it!

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Glad you enjoyed it and no doubt there has been plenty of changes since then!

[@johnmulrine730]

Interesting video, the star here must be 118 203-9, one of the former fiber-glass fronted locos and around this time it should had been withdrawn in Zittau, so whether they pulled it back into service as an exception because by 1992 it was moved to Museumseisenbahn Paderborn

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Thanks for that info John as don't really know much about European Railways! Maybe it was ready to head to the museum and they needed to use it first!

[@maryreid4273]

Thank you, this is really interesting! :)

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Thanks, Mary, I hope you have found some of my other stuff interesting as well!

[@1970Landei]

Wow such a great footage and even in a very good quality. Nice 👌

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Thank you very much. I hope you have checked out some of my other stuff and I have just added another couple of German related clips as well!

[@1970Landei]

@@paekokstationmaster5032 yeah they are great, thx for sharing them 😁

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

@@1970Landei thank you very much. Still more to come!

[@romansvehla7352]

6,58 loko MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA. By ŠKODA Plzen .

[@Steffen0885]

Das ist Nostalgie 😍

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Thank you

[@jensfdl6859]

Gratulations👍DR Loved! BR 118 😊Thang You!

[@Spectrumline101]

Sehr schöne Impressionen der Deutschen Reichsbahn in Dresden..

[@Luzinoforma]

It's realy Cool video Greetings form Poland

[@gulnarakotlarova5052]

👍👌💯

[@Kohlenstoffkarbid]

The double deck train at 5:10 is a very rarely seen and today completely non existent type. Not much pictures left of these. First time i found a video of these, which is not a toy or model train. It is a Doppelstock-Gliederzug of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. It has the doors between the cars in seperate modules. Its worth to make it a seperate video, since more people are searching for it while i found it just accidently.

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Having a closer look I see they are very unusual in have a shared bogie between the coaches which I hadn't noticed before. I didn't realize that they were very rare so thank you for you info!

[@Watcher1867]

There where several types of those "Gliederzüge". The one here is the last built form. Former ones had their doors within the wagon as later built single cars had/have, too. The older ones where connected by 3-axle-bogies while these ones have 2-axle-bogies and wagons "hanging" between them.

[@00Zy99]

This video is 99% East Germany.... ....and 1% Coca Cola

[@EpicThe112]

If You want to compare all of these locomotives the former East Germany V100 DR243 Families former Soviet Union 2TE109 DR132 Czechoslovakia DR230 CZ371/372 into West Germany equivalents they're DB BR261 363 DB BR218 DR BR132 DR BR243 DB BR111 & 141 DB BR184 15kv 16.7hz Germany 3kv DC Belgium 1.5kv DC Southern France Netherlands 25kv 50hz Northern France.

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Thank you for that. I just like how big and business-like they look and sound.

[@EpicThe112]

@@paekokstationmaster5032 You mean the DR BR132 DB BR232? That can run to Belgium from Aachen Netherlands on the Duisburg Oberhausen-Arnhem Railway

[@nathanh.5373]

Better times...

[@yogiaol]

The first train with the green wagons seems to be bulgarian BDZ.

[@martinbitter4162]

I think Czech CSD

[@hugo473fs]

DR 132

[@randomstuff5434]

So what was the political situation in the DDR at this particular date like? Did the East Germans know that they were about to be reunified? Were there still the oppressive laws that restricted their movement and freedom of speech etc?

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

This was after the 'iron curtain" and the Berlin wall had come down!

[@peterlesko2867]

Whish I could drive DB180

[@monsterkatze4579]

you mean DR 230

[@professorjamesmoriarty5191]

That first loco sounds like a constipated valenta.

[@talwachterdd6730]

Oh ja , das waren schöne Zeiten ! man konnte sich auf dem Hauptbahnhof nicht sattsehen: Rangierbetrieb ohne ende und richtige "umsetzerfahrten" mit Rangierbefehl auf das Gleisvorfeld... Heute ist auf dem Hauptbahnhof nichts mehr derartiges los: ein Toter Bahnhof mit langweiligen Ein- und Aus/durchfahrten ohne jeden dazugehörigen Betrieb im Bahnhof. Man sieht gar nicht mher das Züge rangiert werden ,was traurig macht..

[@paekokstationmaster5032]

Ja, leider ist das heutzutage in den meisten Ländern so, wobei die meisten Züge entweder aus festen Zügen oder aus DMUs bestehen. Ich habe es damals wirklich genossen, durch Europa zu reisen, da die meisten Züge noch mit der Lok gezogen wurden! Ich habe es wirklich geliebt, diese ehemaligen DR-Loks besonders zu sehen und zu hören!

[@juancasidis4387]

​@@paekokstationmaster5032long live GDR