Charming journey through time at 10 km/h: Bockerl ride creates a lot of enthusiasm among the visitors

Created: 08/26/2022, 20:00

Manfred Lohr from the Bockerl association gave an introduction to the children who had come together as part of the Rudelzhausen holiday programme.

© Richard Lorenz

There was a lot of nostalgia to experience in Enzelhausen: at the Bockerl ride, to which the association "Bockerl fahr zua" and the young women's association Rudelzhausen had invited.

Enzelhausen

- Last week it was not like "Hopfazupfa hint 'eisteign", but rather "All children and parents in the front wagon!" As part of the Rudelzhausen holiday program, the railway fans from "Bockerl fahr zua" and the young women's association succeeded Rudelzhausen a huge coup.

With a lot of passion and attention to detail, they made it possible for a total of around 300 interested people to take an exciting trip on the Bockerl track section that still exists between Enzelhausen and Rudelzhausen.

feeling of deceleration

Admittedly, it wasn't a particularly wild ride at a maximum speed of ten kilometers per hour – but the time just flew by for the children and their parents.

The feeling of slowing down was an extremely surprising one, as was the idea of ​​how the people of Hallertau might have fared on their journey across the hop landscape.

Posing on the diesel locomotive: (from left) Reinhard Altmann, Manfred Lohr, Bernhard Steinhauser, train driver Andreas Zablowski and Günter Schreiner.

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As Günter Schreiner explained of the railway and model building enthusiasts, the Bockerl Association had already cleaned the carriages spotlessly clean in advance and brought everything into shape without rubbing off the charming patina.

All curious people started in a green former auxiliary luggage wagon, which fortunately could also shelter there at midday, as unfortunately there was heavy rain at times.

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Where exactly did the railway route run and what did people actually experience back then in connection with the "stubborn steam locomotive", which almost lost its iron teeth on many a Hallertau mountain?

On numerous display and information boards, which had been lovingly put together by the association, data and facts could be read in the green rolling museum and historical pictures could be viewed - which was of course more exciting for the adults.

There was also great interest among the older semesters.

Günter Schreiner willingly explained everything.

© Wolfram Riedel

Manfred Lohr from the Bockerl-Verein, on the other hand, took on the brief introduction for the little ones, who had been able to embark on a charming journey through time divided into three trips.

And as it should be for such a train journey, tickets, i.e. tickets, had to be purchased beforehand – which in turn were then officially stamped by the conductor carpenter.

Jump off for safety reasons

Because the auxiliary luggage car would have been too uncomfortable to travel with, the holiday children and their parents were allowed to change to the classic red railbus control car.

Of course, it was a few years old, but it was still in good shape and was well remembered by many an older Nandlstadt resident.

The railbus drove there until the late 1960s.

The control car and the green wagon were moved by two diesel locomotives from the 1950s - one of which is even privately owned by Andreas Zablowski, who brought the train passengers safely to Rudelzhausen and back on this special day.

Lohr, who had to jump out of the moving wagon, ensured safety when the train crossed the street

to wave his signal flag in the right place at the right time – and then climb back into the compartment soaking wet.

"That's just how it used to be," Lohr explained, while a little boy quietly asked his mother because of the slow pace when the ride was finally going to start.

The numerous visitors who came to the former train station in Enzelhausen raved about the nostalgia of the past.

© Wolfram Riedel

40 minutes for four kilometers

The journey took around 40 minutes for a total of around four kilometers, from Enzelhausen to Rudelzhausen and back to the historic train station.

Just as if the Bockerl-Verein had only picked up the last hops after the work was done.

For the special friends and sponsors of the Bockerl Association, around 170 passengers, the locomotives then set out on the journey for the last time that day in the afternoon, and the Hallertauer-Bockerl song was sung happily in the wagon - as it should be belongs for real Hallertauer who miss their Bockerl.

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