The fourth train that carried passengers was this DB railbus set (you may notice that this does not qualify as dutch either), which operated the service to Vetschau (Germany) alone, staffed with friendly, enthusiastic conductors who told a lot of stuff about the local history, of which I sadly understood next to nothing. Vetschau is only a single platform on the former Aachen-Simpelveld-Maastricht line, which has been demolished between there and Richterich (where it connected to the Aachen-Mönchengladbach mainline). Consequently, there are no facilities to allow a locomotive to get to the other side of the train, so something with cabs at both ends of the train is necessary.

The VT95 and VT98 (this one is a VT98), built by Waggonfabrik Uerdingen (today Siemens) and hence known as Uerdingers (not to be confused with Erdinger, something different altogether), have the title as the saviors of german branch line railroads. They replaced inefficient steam services and thus made lines profitable again that were close to being shut down. Of course, many of them were later shut down anyway, but the VT98 certainly delayed it. These days, the reliable old vehicles are a mainstay of german, and apparently some dutch, museum railways.

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