Product Features and Details
Car set 3 with two InterRegio coaches of the IR 2184 “Nordpfeil” of Deutsche Bahn.
Consisting of one 2nd class coach, type Bimz 264.7, and one 2nd class coach, type Bimdz 268.3.
■ Coach route Hanover – 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 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 operated with 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, from winter 1995, initially be moved to Neumünster and, from summer 1996, directly to the Danish border station of Padborg.
