CHRONOLOGY OF EXPENSES

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Driving a train costs – costs a lot of money.
Running costs for the train, for staff members, for a driver on the various national train routes, track taxes, organization, ticket booking and management, etc., are just some of the expenses. The successful maiden trip (October 29th – November 2nd 2015) from the depot in Sissach/Basel to the organizations´ headquarters in Rosenheim, including the Charity Journey to Salzburg and back, cost a total sum of approximately € 90 000.- . The long journey through 18 Countries to Jerusalem is budgeted around €1 million Euro. This is just to point out how important each donation is even if only a small one.

Over all view of expenses directly related to the El’Achai – Peace Train

2020 – Main expenses: Lining up for level 3
April – refund loan (from purchase sleeping cars)
€5000.-
March – Exp. Organisation peace pourney Jordan/Lebanon
€1100.-
 
2019 – Main expenses: Lining up for level 2
December – refund loan (from purchase sleeping cars)€6000.-
July – Expenditure summer event€1700.-
March – takeover track rental for the Peace Train
€999.-
February – refund loan (from purchase sleeping cars)€10000.-
 
2018 – Main expenses: Lining up for level 2
October – Exp. Organisation peace pourney Jordan
€2200.-
June – windows repair sleeping cars€2000.-
June – new batteries for the sleeping cars€5000.-
March – marketing, printed matter€1930.–
February – peace delegation travel in the near east€1120.-
2017 – Main expenses: preparation for the big journey
December – partial payment for the sleeping cars€16000.-
November – Expenditure production imagefilm Peace Train€3082.-
August – Exp. for carrier of the donated 140 bedded garnishes€897.-
August – Filmcrew, marketing, filming on open door day€2975.-
August – Exp. gold foil sleeping cars, communikation coach, lokomotive
(so many thanks to VonZ Marketing for promoting us with – € 1000.-)		€9128.-
July – Expenditure preparation summer event/open-door day€1900.-
July – partial payment for the sleeping cars€4000.-
June – again, expenditure travel to Bucharest€783.-
April – Expenditure travel to Bucharest for contract negotiations €1322.-
March – Expenditure travel to Bucharest for surveying sleeping cars€1539.-
February. – repayment of loan€10.000.-
2016 – Main expenses: preparation for the big journey
December – payment for the sleeping cars€19.780.-
Oktober – payment for pasting and lettering of the sleeping cars
(so many thanks to VonZ Marketing for promoting us with – € 1000.-)		€16.779.-
May – Expenditure for delegation travel in the near east€2.667.-
January to April – payments for marketing and PR material€4.631.-
January – partial payment for a sleeping car€8.700.-
2015 – Main expenses: execution of the maiden journey
Dec. – final payment to the Deutsche Bahn€6.207.-
Dec. – final payment to the SBBCHF901.-
Dec. – repayment of loan€9.999.-
Nov.– temporary payment of SBB staffCHF45.120.-
Oct. – temporary payment to Deutsche Bahn€34.880.-
Oct. – stickers for the train€2.479.-
Oct. – Corp. Ident. Uniform with embroidery for train crew€1.019.-
Oct. – labelled jackets for train personnel€469.-
June – 5 sets of magnetic tags with train label€951.-
May – insertion of donation tool€71.-