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Timetable from the Marshall Plan Train during the borderland voyage

The Marshall Planzug is an exhibition train with 15 express train wagons in West Germany to promote cooperation between peoples and countries in Europe . His main job was to explain the Marshall Plan . For this purpose, this train drove in three journeys through parts of West Germany in 1950 and 1951 and made stops in 100 cities.

First route

From May 26, 1950 to July 16, 1950, the Marshall Planzug made its first trip to 30 cities in what is now Baden-Württemberg : Stuttgart, Böblingen, Ludwigsburg, Pforzheim, Karlsruhe, Bruchsal, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Weinheim, Mosbach, Heilbronn, Tauberbischofsheim, Bad Mergentheim, Crailsheim, Schwäbisch Hall, Künzelsau, Backnang, Waiblingen, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Aalen, Heidenheim, Ulm, Geislingen, Göppingen, Nürtingen, Kirchheim unter Teck, Esslingen, Eppingen, Bretten, Schorndorf.

The great Marshall Plan Train

The long journey took place from September 11, 1950 to December 21, 1950 with stops in 49 cities, mainly in what is now North Rhine-Westphalia . The starting point of the trip was again Stuttgart. Via Frankfurt he went to Bonn for the opening ceremony and then to Euskirchen, Düren, Eschweiler, Aachen, Stolberg, Rheydt, Mönchen-Gladbach, Viersen, Krefeld, Kempen, Moers, Homberg, Wesel, Dinslaken, Oberhausen, Duisburg, Mülheim, Düsseldorf, Neuss , Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Remscheid, Solingen, Leverkusen, Cologne-Deutz, Bergisch Gladbach, Siegburg, Gummersbach, Lüdenscheid, Hagen, Witten, Iserlohn, Unna, Hamm, Lünen, Dortmund, Castrop-Rauxel, Herne, Wanne-Eickel, Bochum, Hattingen (Ruhr), Gelsenkirchen, Essen, Bottrop, Gladbeck, Dorsten and Recklinghausen.

The Grenzlandfahrt

The borderland tour from February 21, 1951 to April 18, 1951 started in Baden-Baden. Via Rastatt, Bühl, Offenburg, Lahr, Emmendingen, Freiburg, Müllheim, Lörrach, Waldshut, Singen, Konstanz, Friedrichshafen and Lindau it should first go back to the home station Bad Cannstatt. The great success prompted the exhibition management to stop in six other cities on the way back to the home station, namely in Ravensburg, Bad Saulgau, Sigmaringen, Balingen, Tübingen and Reutlingen.

literature

  • Holger Wosnitza: The Marshall Planzug in the Eisenbahn-Kurier, EK-Verlag Freiburg, edition 10/2010.