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Location notes
Germany, Bayern on the Buchloe-Memmingen main line. Nearest major city is Munich, nearest large town is Buchloe
Railway type and traffic
Single track main line, featuring EC's from Munchen~Zurich, RE's from Munchen~Memmingen and Augsburg~Hergatz. Currently hauled by DB class 218. There are also some local units.
Environment
Open countryside, straight track.
Road directions
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Turkheim (Bayern) map co-ordinates
Parking
Park on street, but beware as the road is narrow.
Public transport
Turkheim station - turn left out of station, walk parallel to railway for 20 minutes and pick a spot. Rammingen to Turkheim on foot takes approx 40mins, you can get out at Rammingen and walk back to Turkheim, photting as you go.
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Amenities
Virtually no shops that I could see, although Turkheim probably has a bar, the station bar usually seems to be closed.
Sun Compass
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Turkheim (Bayern)
Streetmap links
Turkheim (Bayern) general view map
Turkheim (Bayern) close up map
Windows Local Live Link - image quality may vary
Turkheim (Bayern)
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Turkheim (Bayern)
Googly map
Turkheim (Bayern) general view map
Turkheim (Bayern) close up map
Windows Local Live Link - image quality may vary
Turkheim (Bayern)
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Photographic notes
For Memmingen bound trains, sun is good afternoon, if you can get the 'sun' side of the track. It is possible to shoot both ways, remember that the loco hauled regional trains have DVTs.
General views - All photographs © Richard Stiles unless otherwise stated
Fig 1 -
218 460 4 at Turkheim (Bay) RE32676 11.51 Munchen - Memmingen on 13Feb10
Fig 2 -
218 489 3 Turkheim 1Aug09, RE32682 13.51 Munchen - Memmingen
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This site has been created to assist railway photographers in their travels around the country. It is based on the personal knowledge and experience. No liability can be held against the web site or its contributions for incorrect information. Trainspots will endeavour to check all information and corrections will be accepted and posted accordingly.
Advice as to the locations general environment is given as a guide on each page. This information is a GUIDE only. ALWAYS be careful with your equipment, Trainspots can not be held responsible for your personal security. Avoid leaving your property on display for all to see, be aware of your surroundings at all times. There are, sadly, people who will not think twice about trying to steal your equipment.
Trainspots DOES NOT condone trespass and none of the information on this site should be taken as a right to trespass on either railway or private land. To the best of our knowledge all locations are publicly accessible areas, where they are not contact information will be given to the appropriate authority for permission to be obtained.
The content of this site is created and intended for all age ranges but the content of sites linked from this site are not subject to the same intentions. Trainspots will attempt to check links for validity but as time passes and the site grows this will not always be possible. Broken, or indeed updates to, links should be submitted to the editor for inclusion in the updates. All links external to the Trainspots site are opened in a new browser window. Trainspots has been running now for over 10 years and there are imitation sites and guides to railfotspots. But we are a free site and we continue on the path we started out on over a decade ago to provide a useful guide to UK Railway Photographic Locations.
