Contest Entry - Vacation - Hamburg

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Comments

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

Why no, that's not scary at all. I don't feel like it's come to take me away to hell or anything...

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I think it kind of looks like it'd take you on a trip involving intrigue, people wearing trench coats, and espionage.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Then whatever you do, don't read Dürrenmatt's "The Tunnel". >:-)

[bib-specialist.livejournal.com]

Was this from after 1933, by any chance?

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Not sure, Yes? Could be. The BPL says "Date issued: 1910-1959 (approximate)"

[yndy.livejournal.com]

You can pretty much date it from the 1930s. The company was nationalized in 1938 and became part of Deutsche Reichsban... but they were running this double-deck train on the line in the 30's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCbeck-B%C3%BCchen_Railway_Company

On 1 January 1938, the Lübeck-Büchen Railway Company was acquired by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German State Railways), which since the beginning of 1930 had held a majority of its shares. The state of Lübeck had held a majority of shares in the company since 1883. During the 1921–1923 hyperinflation, the national Ministry of Transport had acquired shares in the LBE. By 1937 the German government held about 86 percent of its shares. It justified its decision to nationalise the company on the basis of the importance of the lines that were connected by the LBE. The company was dissolved on 1 January 1938.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCbeck%E2%80%93L%C3%BCbeck-Travem%C3%BCnde_Strand_railway

The LBE, which already operated the line in the 1930s with high quality bi-level cars, also introduced the distinctive slogan "Hamburg, Lübeck, Travemünde–from the sea of houses on the sea" (Aus dem Häusermeer an die See).

I so wanted to know what it said...
Double-deck trains
Hamburg Lübeck Travemünde
from the sea and the lake houses
Lübeck Büchener railroad

Fast trains 2nd & 3rd class - without surcharge

[write-light.livejournal.com]

That's "from the sea of houses TO the sea".

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

That's a very intimidating train.