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    Germany: At Niebull, RDC Class 247 and DB Class 218 diesel locos are seen on car shuttle trains



    Germany: At Niebull, RDC Class 247 and DB Class 218 diesel locos are seen on car shuttle trains

    Germany: At Niebull, RDC Class 247 and DB Class 218 locos are seen on car shuttle trains. RDC Vectron loco no.247 908 arrives on a car shuttle from Westerland and DB locos nos.218 366 & 218 379 are seen departing on a westbound car shuttle to Westerland. Clip recorded 6 May 2024.
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    Niebüll is a town in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated near the North Sea coast and the border with Denmark, approx. 35 km northwest of Husum.
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    The Niebüll–Westerland car train service is a car transport train service in the district of Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein . The trains run between Niebüll and Westerland on the island of Sylt via the Hindenburgdamm . Unlike the car train, only a short distance of 39 kilometers is covered. The journey on the car train is the only way to get directly to Sylt by car from the German mainland.

    The operators are DB Fernverkehr AG under the brand “Sylt Shuttle” and the Railroad Development Corporation , which began regular operations on October 18, 2016 with its subsidiary RDC Deutschland under the brand “Autozug Sylt” as the second car transport provider.
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    In October 2016, RDC (Railroad Development Corporation) commenced operating RDC Autozug Sylt car shuttle services from Niebüll to Westerland after securing a 10-year access agreement. Services were initially hauled by a Transdev Class 251 while using BTE car-carrier wagons. In November 2017, RDC bought two Siemens Vectron Class 247 diesel locomotives for its RDC Autozug Sylt car shuttle operations.
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    The DB Class 218 (before 1968 the DB Class V 164) are a class of 4-axle, diesel-hydraulic locomotives acquired by the Deutsche Bundesbahn for use on main and secondary lines for both passenger and freight trains.

    The class represents the final major revision of the DB V 160 family of locomotives; having the preferred features of the antecedent locomotives, including a hydrodynamic brake, and a single engine providing electrical train heating via a generator as well as tractive power. The class were also the most numerous of the family, providing the backbone of the Deutsche Bundesbahn’s main-line diesel locomotive traction from the 1970s up to the reunification of Germany.

    Despite being displaced from many workings by DMUs, electrification, and inherited DR Class 130s, as of 2009 a significant number of the class still remain active throughout Germany.
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