Product Features and Details
Consisting of one 1st class coach, type Aimz 261.5, and two 2nd class coaches, type Bim 263.5.
■ Coach route Hanover – Flensburg
■ Lettered as multi-system coaches
The express train Nordpfeil – or Nordpilen in Danish – was for decades, until 1991, the classic express connection between Hamburg and northern Jutland. The route also crossed the famous Rendsburg High Bridge over the Kiel Canal. Four years after the introduction of the InterRegio line Kassel - Flensburg, the Nordpfeil experienced its rebirth as an InterRegio service: it ran from Hanover via Hamburg, Flensburg, Fredericia, Aarhus (Denmark’s second-largest city) to Frederikshavn.
This international IR train has been faithfully reproduced with multi-system coaches and the corresponding destination boards. In Denmark, the train consisted of 5 coaches (item nos. 6200289 and 6200290); up to Flensburg, three additional coaches were attached (item no. 6200288).
North of Flensburg, the IR Nordpfeil/Nordpilen was hauled by the DSB Class MZ. Up to that point, the train was pulled by double-headed DB Class 218 locomotives after the electric locomotive had previously been detached in Hamburg-Altona. As electrification progressed, this change of traction type could initially be moved from winter 1995 onward to Neumünster and, from summer 1996, directly to the Danish border station of Padborg.
