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Denmark DSB Ma 462 in old red livery. Photo taken 13/3/78 in Odense by Carl Thalbitzer. If463@hotmail.com and http://www.geocities.com/besmirtrain

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Express diesel train set MA, ("Lyntog", lighting train), enters one of the Great Belt ferries at Nyborg Station. The train was a modified version of the German TEE train, acquired by DSB in 1963, withdrawn 1990. Note that it is only one half of the train. The Danish Lyntog was made of two half-train sets. This was necessary because the train was too long to enter the ferry in one piece, but it was also practical since the train then could go from the only city with more than a million inhabitants in Denmark, Copenhagen, to several smaller destinations in the rest of the country. Today, the MF (IC3) train sets are used the same way. Photo taken 1980 by Lars Bohn.

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A Danske Statsbaner (DSB) Class MA "Lyntog" enroute to Copenhagen main train station, November 1976. Photo by Thomas McCann (USA) (mediabymccann@att.net)

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DSB "Lyntog" power car #465 at Aarhus H, July 1987. Photo and scan by Jim Maurer (jim@specialix.com).

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DSB "Lyntog" power car 468 leads a train into Aarhus H, July 1987. Photo and scan by Jim Maurer (jim@specialix.com).

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DSB litra MA, no. 470 in Copenhagen H, October 1989. These lyntog ('lightning trains') were derived from the german VT11.5, later 601. Introduced in 1963. All these trainsets are now withdrawn from service, and some has been sold to Poland. In the early years they had a bright red livery. In the later years they were painted silver, which earned them the nickname 'the silver arrow'. Photo by Christian Larsen, email: C.Larsen@ecmwf.int Scan via Photo CD.

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DSB MA 470 at Copenhagen H in October 1989. Photo by Christian Larsen, email: C.Larsen@ecmwf.int Scan via Photo CD.

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DSB MA 466 at Århus H in October 1989. Photo by Christian Larsen, email: C.Larsen@ecmwf.int Scan via Photo CD.

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DSB MA 466 at Århus H, October 1989. Picture taken with Kodak Stretch camera. Photo by Christian Larsen, email: C.Larsen@ecmwf.int Scan via Photo CD.

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Denmark MA 466 (red livery) as the first halftrain of Sydvestjyden. Picture from Osterport, spring 1982. Photo by Jan Agersten (janage@post11.tele.dk)

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Two MA-half-trains (467 and 469) in Svanemoellen depot north of Copenhagen just before MA-service was withdrawn in january 1990. Photo by Jan Agersten (janage@post11.tele.dk)

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Two MA half-trains (467 and 469) in the central station of Copenhagen a week before the end of MA in Denmark Photo by Jan Agersten (janage@post11.tele.dk)

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DSB MA470 and MA 468 (behind). Picture from Hvidovre, 1978. Sydvestjyden for Copenhagen are meeting MY1122 with freighttrain. Photo by Jan Agersten (janage@post11.tele.dk)

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Denmark MA 464 (red livery). This MA was extraordinary put on as InterCity-train from Copenhagen to Flensburg, picture from Roskilde november 1978. Photo by Jan Agersten (janage@post11.tele.dk)

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Denmark MA lightningtrain in red colours on trial winter 1982 Photo by Jan Agersten (janage@post11.tele.dk)

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Denmark MA 461 (red livery). Lightningtrain Nordjyden are running through Tommerup with MA461 as the second halftrain a summerday in 1981. Photo by Jan Agersten (janage@post11.tele.dk)

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Denmark MA 466 and MA 469 (red livery). In nearly all the years of the existens of the MA an event that was repeating itself every afternoon was the making ready of Nordjyden and Sydvestjyden in the shed of Helgoland. This picture was taken a day in the spring of 1982. Photo by Jan Agersten (janage@post11.tele.dk)

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DSB MA. A classic site for trainspotters are the bridges over Vigerslevvej in Valby west of Copenhagen. Here lightningtrain Sydvestjyden in 1978. Photo by Jan Agersten (janage@post11.tele.dk)

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DSB MA. The bridges over Vigerslevvej in Valby west of Copenhagen. Sydvestjyden in 1978. Photo by Jan Agersten (janage@post11.tele.dk)

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Denmark, MA-lightning train. The very last Syd-Vest-Jyden outside Copenhagen, 27 january 1990. Photo by Jan Agersten (janage@post11.tele.dk)

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DSB - MA 469 (red delivery). The lightningtrain 167 Nordjyden Copenhagen - Struer and Frederikshavn are running through Taastrup with a whistle and 140km/h a summerday in 1975. Nordjyden was from 1965 to 1990 the fastest train in Denmark with a commercial speed up to 112 km/h. Photo by Jan Agersten (janage@post11.tele.dk)

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DSB Litra Ms and DSB Litra Ma 460 at the Railway Museum in Odense. Litra Ms was the first lyntog ("lightning train") in Denmark, and it was buildt in 1935, when the first bridge over Lillebælt was opend. I 1963 it was replaced by Litra Ma, whitch was derived from the german VT11.5, later 601. Litra Ma was withdrawn from service few years ago, and some of them has been sold to Poland. Originaly had Litra Ma a bright red livery, but in the later years they were painted silver, whith gave them the nickname "The Silver Arrow". Photo: Arne Unterschlak (arneu@centrum.dk)