that had been specifically built for that service. Today it is in the collection of the Nuremberg Transport Museum. Locomotive 61 001 At the end of the war, locomotive 61 001 found itself in the British Zone and was allocated to the Hanover locomotive depot. Between July 1945 and March 1946 it clocked up 40,000 kilometres in front of passenger trains. In 1947 a general inspection was completed, and on 23 October 1948 the engine was stationed in Bebra, where it was in regular service until May 1949. After a pause, it resumed work from November 1950 covering 3,000 to 10,000 kilometres per month. On 2 November 1951 the engine was badly damaged in an accident at Münster; as a result it was retired on 14 November 1952 and scrapped in 1957. Locomotive 61 002 Locomotive 61 002 remained in Dresden and was employed on passenger train duties. As a one-off it created problems for traffic operating staff. However, for the Test and Development Centre for Engineering (VES-M under Max Baumberg) it was of interest as a trial engine for speeds over 160 km/h. It was converted in 1961 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany at the workshop in Meiningen into a high-speed trials locomotive with a tender and the running number 18 201. With a new-design boiler, outer cylinders from the trials locomotive, H 45 024, and a new welded inner cylinder (the original cylinders were designed for a steam pressure of 20 bar and had too small a bore for the new, 16 bar boiler) and the carrying axle from the high-pressure locomotive, H 45 024, she attained speeds of up to 180 km/h. In 2002, number 18 201 was completely overhauled in the Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works and has since been in the possession of Dampf-Plus owned by Christian Goldschagg and Axel Zwingenberger. Stamps On 5 October 2006 the German post office, Deutsche Post, issued a charity stamp series of four stamps, which included a stamp of the Henschel-Wegmann train for 145+55 Eurocents depicting locomotive 61 001. See also There was another example of a streamlined train rake using the DRG Class 60 and the double-decker, streamlined, push-pull train on the Lübeck-Büchen railway. References External links Henschel-Wegmann Train (Blog posting) High-speed trains of Germany High-speed rail in Germany Named passenger trains of Germany German streamliner trains