Here is a list of provisional railtour dates for the Lausitzer Dampflokclub for 2018. As far as I am aware, some of these have yet been advertised, let alone bookings opened, so please therefore treat this list in the spirit it is intended – purely to help you with as much advance warning as possible over what they are trying to do. I do not want the LDC on the receiving end of any negativity if these plans do not come to fruition in the hoped-for way.
The group is currently engaged in fundraising to repair their steam loco 23 1019 after damage sustained at Chemnitz. Should you wish to book on any of these, you will be helping them in this aim, when indeed bookings open.
17th March 2018
V60 diesel: 07:30 Cottbus to Schwarze Pumpe power station area and Cottbus Sold out
24th March 2018
Class 232 Cottbus to Dresden for 50 3648 (steam) forward to Hradec Kralove. Link.
7th April 2018
52 8079 (steam): Cottbus – Elsterwerda – Dresden for the Dampfloktreffen event, and return.
14th April 2018
V100: Cottbus – Niederfinow and return.
28th April 2018
52 8079 (steam): Cottbus – Guben – Wolsztyn for the Dampflok-Parade.
5th May 2018
03 2155 (steam): Cottbus – Wroclaw and return.
10th May 2018
Class 772 “pig taxi” DMU – or V100+stock “bei Bedarf” (if necessary): Cottbus – Weisswasser for a trip on the Bad Muskau Waldeisenbahn (not currently advertised – TBC)
19th May 2018
Class 143 Cottbus to Dresden for 50 3648 (steam) forward to Mlada Boleslav
26th May 2018
18 201 (steam) – Cottbus – Elsterwerda – Dresden Hbf – Bad Schandau and return (not currently advertised – TBC)
9th June 2018
03 2155 (steam) – Cottbus – Forst – Wroclaw and return (not currently advertised – TBC)
10th June 2018
03 2155 (steam) – Cottbus – Görlitz and return
23rd June 2018
35 1097 (steam) – Cottbus – Görlitz – Liberec – Tanvald – Harrachov and return
30th June 2018
Class 772 “pig taxi” DMU: Cottbus – Calau – Senftenberg – Schwarzkollm and return
7th July 2018
143 559: Cottbus – Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin Hohenschönhausen – Ostseebad Binz (optional trip to Lauterbach with 86 1333 (steam) then on the “Rasender Roland” narrow gauge steam line)
15th July 2018
V60: Cottbus – Calau – Senftenberg – Schwarzkollm and return
11th August 2018
Class 772 “pig taxi” DMU: Cottbus – Finsterwalde and return
11th August 2018
01 509 (steam): Cottbus – Lübben – Berlin Lichtenberg – Berlin Gesendbrunnen – Warnemunde and return for Hanse Sail 2018
1st September 2018
18 201 (steam) last working before withdrawal from traffic for major overhaul: Cottbus – Falkenberg – Halle (Saale) to Meiningen for Dampfloktagen and return (not yet advertised – TBC)
1st September 2018
Class 143 electric: Cottbus – Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin Stadtbahn – Potsdam Hbf – Wittenberge for Brandenbergtag and return (not yet advertised – TBC)
29th September 2018
52 8131 (steam): Cottbus – Elsterwerda – Coswig – Meissen and return (not yet advertised – TBC)
6th October 2018
“Class 245 diesel” (may mean Class 285 on previous form): Cottbus – Falkenberg – Wittenberg – Dessau – Wernigerode for a trip up the Brocken with a narrow gauge steam loco (not yet advertised – TBC)
3rd November 2018
V100 diesel loco: Cottbus – Senftenberg – Pulsnitz for the Pfefferkuchenmarkt and return (not yet advertised – TBC)
1st December 2018
03 2155 (steam): Cottbus – Görlitz – Wroclaw and return (not yet advertised – TBC)
8th December 2018
“Class 245 diesel” (may mean Class 285 on previous form): Cottbus – Falkenberg – Wittenberg – Dessau – Quedlinberg for Christmas market or optional Christmas journey on the Harzer Schmalspurbahn (not yet advertised – TBC)
15th December 2018
52 8079 (steam): Cottbus – Görlitz and return (not yet advertised – TBC)
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