With me was @chrtrain
Date: 02.10.2023
Train type: BR 442 (Talent 2) 3-teilig
Vmax. train: 160 km/h
Vmax. railway: 160 km/h
Scheduled travel time: 4:14 h
Actual travel time: 4:23 h
Welcome to this journey by one of the longest regional train connections in Germany!
The RE 42, part of the network of the Franconia-Thuringen-Express, connects the franconian city Nuremberg with Leipzig in Saxony, going all the way through Thuringen. Among other things it transits the second largest city of Thuringen, which is Jena. The railway used by this train was once the usual route of ICE trains from Munich to Berlin, before the high speed railway was opened. The journey between those two cities took more than six hours back then.
On the day when the video was filmed, the RE 42 came with a three-carriage Talent 2 unit (Class 442) and was united with another five-carriage one, which went to Wurzburg as RE 20. As you can imagine, the number of seats of this 57 m short train was far away from adequat for the amount of passengers on this long reagional train service. So the train was very crowded and some people had to stand in the hallway.
Stops:
Nürnberg Hbf 0:00:47
Fürth (Bay) Hbf 0:05:32
Erlangen 0:09:16
Forchheim 0:12:16
Hirschaid
Bamberg 0:18:54
Breitengüßbach
Zapfendorf
Ebensfeld
Bad Staffelstein 0:27:07
Lichtenfels 0:29:38
Michelau
Hochstadt-Marktzeuln
Redwitz-Rodach
Küps
Neuses (b. Kronach)
Kronach 0:36:13
Gundelsdorf
Stockheim (Oberfr)
Pressig-Rothenkirchen 0:40:36
Förtschendorf
Steinbach am Wald 0:44:20
Ludwigsstadt 0:47:09
Probstzella 0:50:12
Unterloquitz
Kaulsdorf (Saale)
Breternitz
Saalfeld (Saale) 0:58:04
Rudolstadt (Schwarza)
Rudolstadt (Thür) 1:02:25
Kahla (Thür)
Jena-Göschwitz 1:10:02
Jena-Paradies 1:12:32
Camburg (Saale)
Naumburg (Saale) Hbf 1:22:48
Weißenfels 1:25:49
Leipzig Hbf 1:38:19
Have a nice trip!