European Railroad Discussion > Flixtrain starts new Köln-Hamburg service today

Low cost Flixtrain service between Köln and Hamburg started Mar 23rd. Seen here at Köln West, photo by my brother about 30 minutes ago.
See https://www.flixtrain.com/

...John Reay
Toronto, ON



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It sounds like they should show movies on it!

John Meixel
Longmont, CO

John, thank your brother for the image. That is cool.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Are those older coaches, rebuilt for this service, or are they new?

Bob3985 Wrote:
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> John, thank your brother for the image. That is
> cool.

Already did. My brother lives about an hour outside Cologne. He Facebook messaged the images to me this morning. At that
moment I was waiting for a GO Transit commuter train in Toronto and he was at Cologne West going to a business meeting!
I'm the railfan in the family, he's a WW2 military vehicle buff. At the top of the street he lives on is the Belgian border.
In 1944 the Panzers kept right on going at the end of the street into the Ardennes at the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge.

..jr



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march_hare Wrote:
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> Are those older coaches, rebuilt for this service,
> or are they new?


Older coaches rebuilt.

Thanks for sharing. I can't say I like Die "Farben" but Europeans tend to have a different taste when it comes to colors. I recall when I lived in Deutschland even things made from plastic were of a much different pigment then what we do here.

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com