Rembrandt (train)

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Rembrandt
Restaurant car
Observation facilitiesfrom 1991
Technical
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Electrification1500 V DC (Netherlands)
15 kV 16,7 Hz (Germany) & (Switzerland)
Route diagram (1987–2002)
Legend
 Amsterdam Centraal
Rhine
 Utrecht Centraal
Arnhem
Netherlands
Germany
border
Emmerich
 Oberhausen
Duisburg
Düsseldorf
Cologne
 Bonn
Koblenz
Mainz
Mannheim
Karlsruhe
Baden-Baden
 Freiburg
Basel Baden
Germany
Switzerland
border
Rhine
 Basel SBB
Zürich
Thalwil
Wädenswil
Pfäffikon SZ
Ziegelbrücke
Sargans
Bad Ragaz
Rhine
 Landquart
Chur
This diagram:

The Rembrandt was an express train that linked Amsterdam in the Netherlands, with Munich in Germany and later Chur in Switzerland. The train was named after the renowned Dutch painter Rembrandt.[1] For its first 16 years it was a first-class-only Trans Europ Express, becoming a two-class InterCity in 1983 and finally a EuroCity in 1987.

History

Trans Europ Express

With the completion of the

Rhein-Main in the evening. The Rembrandt conveyed through coaches for the TEE Helvetia that were exchanged in Mannheim,[3][4] thus providing an afternoon TEE service between Amsterdam and Zürich via the Rhine Valley, alongside the TEE Edelweiss which departed from Amsterdam in the morning and was routed via Brussels and Luxembourg en route to Zurich. It carried a dining car staffed by the German Sleeper and Dining Car Company (DSG).[3][5]

Route placard for the 1980–83 route

The Rembrandt was the first TEE to call in Baden-Wurtemberg's capital,

Rheinpfeil. On 27 May 1979, the exchange of coaches with the Helvetia was discontinued,[7] and the stop at Mannheim was replaced by a stop at Darmstadt.[8] On 1 June 1980, the route was shortened to Stuttgart at the southern end.[5]

The Rembrandt's last day of operation as a TEE was 28 May 1983. The following day, its southern terminus was moved farther north, to Frankfurt am Main, and the train was converted to a two-class InterCity service.[9][10] It continued to carry a full dining car. Its train number was IC 122 northbound, IC 123 southbound.[10]

EuroCity

On 31 May 1987, with the start of the

Basel.[11]

References

  1. ^ TEE, p. 22.
  2. ^ La Légende des TEE, p. 266.
  3. ^ a b c "Summer Services, 1967" (changes taking effect). Cooks Continental Timetable (February 1967 edition), p. 406. London: Thomas Cook Publishing.
  4. ^ La Légende des TEE, p. 267.
  5. ^ a b Thomas Cook International Timetable (March 1–April 5, 1980 edition), pp. 67, 556. Peterborough, UK: Thomas Cook Publishing.
  6. ^ TEE Züge in Deutschland, p. 114.
  7. ^ Das grosse TEE Buch, p. 86
  8. ^ Thomas Cook Continental Timetable (May 27 – June 30, 1979 edition), p. 67.
  9. ^ TEE Züge in Deutschland, p. 117.
  10. ^ a b Thomas Cook Continental Timetable (May 29 – June 30, 1983 edition), pp. 6, 67.
  11. ^ La Légende des TEE, p. 269.

Works cited

  • Centre for publicrelations UIC (1972). TEE (in Dutch). Paris: Union International des Chemins de Fer.
  • Hajt, Jörg (2001). Das grosse TEE Buch (in German). Bonn/Königswinter: Heel Verlag.
    ISBN 3-89365-948-X
    .
  • Mertens, Maurice; Malaspina, Jean-Pierre (2007). La Légende des Trans Europ Express (in French). Vannes: LR Presse.
    ISBN 978-29-036514-5-9
    .
  • Goette, Peter (2008). TEE-Züge in Deutschland (in German). Freiburg: EK-Verlag.
    ISBN 978-3-88255-698-8
    .

External links

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