First JT1 takes in the highlights of two days at Würzburg, a delightful medieval city in Bavaria where two major routes cross: from Vienna via Regensburg and from Italy via Munich - both to the northern ports and Scandinavia through Kassel. These routes are highly competitive so you will see many locomotives operated under open access regulations – very colourful.

Our second location is Ingolstadt, at the southern end of Die Bahn's most recently completed NBS. The city is the home of Audi cars and a lot of rail-freight!

At both locations wagonload traffic is heavy,  the stock formations and the loads varied – inspiration for modellers perhaps? Passenger traffic is not forgotten, as well as the usual ICE and EC varieties you can see the new 200kph REGIO sets used on the Ingolstadt to Nürnburg Neubaustrecke.