Product Features and Details
Car set 2 with three InterRegio coaches of Deutsche Bahn’s IR 2184 “Nordpfeil”.
Consisting of one 2nd class coach, type Bimz 264.5, one “Bistro Café” coach with 1st class seating compartments, type ARkimbz 262.3, and one 2nd class coach, type Bimz 264.7.
■ Coach route Hannover – Frederikshavn
■ 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. It also crossed the famous Rendsburg High Bridge over the Kiel Canal. Four years after the introduction of the IR line Kassel - Flensburg, the Nordpfeil experienced its rebirth as an InterRegio service: it operated from Hannover 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 added (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 DB Class 218 locomotives in double traction after the electric locomotive had previously been detached in Hamburg-Altona. With the progress of electrification, this change of traction type could initially be moved to Neumünster from winter 1995 onward, and from summer 1996 directly to the Danish border station of Padborg.
