Technical Delays on the Theatre Train

Today we want to show and explain you a bit why the "Orient-Express-Theatre-Train" has such a long delay on the border between Slovenia and Austria, so that it arrived more than 8 hours later to Stuttgart than expected and so that we were not able to produce a new film the other day.

During the last weeks of travel from Turkey to the border to Austria the train has been using its generator-waggon to produce its own electricity. This electricity is also needed for operating all security features of the waggons during a train ride. For Austria and Germany this generator-waggon was not allowed to be used due to the possibility of magnetic interferences with the local electric train management systems. So the Austrian railway operator sent a special lokomotive with a special power supply to give enough electricity to the Turkish waggons to be properly opperated.

But as always something went wrong and nobody was able to get this power connection properly running. Without power the train was not allowed to carry on passengers so that it was decided to get hold of another Austrian passenger waggon to be put in between the lokomotive and the Turkish waggons.

After many hours of waiting time the train finally left with all passengers in the extra waggon and made its way in direction of Stuttgart, where it arrived around 3am in the morning. This you will be able to watch in another weblog in the next days...