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Dear German speakers, I recently visited Koeln and saw some extrmely interesting EMUs there operating as commuter trains for the service. Unfortunately my train finding skills aren't so good and are even worse when I don't know the correct words in (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.de, FTX)
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(...) Have you not been able to find what you are searching on the (URL) Railfaneurope website> (eventhough not german website) ? (...) Didier (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Commuter trains tend to be referred to as S-Bahn (...) As Didier has mentioned, the (URL) European Railway Server> is probably the best place to look, especially as a starting point to find out what to search for. (...) I think it is a (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Indeed, that's one of the best places to start your search. I believe it's belongs to the 423, 424, 425 and 426 series, you find links to their picture galleries on this page (most have a level of subdirectories beneath them): (URL) 445 series (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Also, this site is an invaluable reference: (URL) I'm a native German speaker, and I have fond memories of my Dad and I building a little Marklin train layout. The German words are often hilarious in their pronunciation and number of syllables, and (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks Didier, I think it might be a 425. Perhaps someone could confirm this? Tim (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Oh! Thank you. Really interesting. I hope I remember enough German pronounciation to do justice to them ;) I'll also add this link to BrickWiki's train terms and German trains articles. Tim (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Tim, (...) the german word for the kind of car used in this train is "Doppelstockwagen". So (URL) find you a few more pictures. Cheers Jürgen "who likes to sit on the upper deck when going home for the weekend" (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) EMU = Triebzug mit Elektromotor EMUs = Triebzüge mit Elektromotor (For DMU replace Elektro with Diesel) (...) Nahverkehrszüge or Regionalzüge (Also words like Nahverkehr, Regionalverkehr and Regionalbahn can help you finding more in German on (...) (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Dear all, Thank you everyone who has responded. I've begun building a 425 series and hope to have some pictures of it for you soon. I got so much information that I have begin adding to the German trains section of Brickwiki (...) (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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