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Some more photos from Basel for today.

 

 

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Basel 6th Aug 88 C10227

 

 

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Basel 6th Aug 88 C10234

 

 

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Basel Re44ii 11302 6th Aug 88 C10236

 

 

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Basel SNCF BB20200 class 20212 6th Aug 88 C10241

 

 

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Basel RBDe4/4 2104 6th Aug 88 C10259

 

 

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Amsteg Silenen today, with an odd one left over from Bellinzona.

 

 

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Amsteg Silenen Re6/6 northbound 8th Aug 88 C10445

 

 

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Amsteg Silenen Re6/6 11688 northbound freight 8th Aug 88 C10447

 

 

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Amsteg Silenen Re6/6 11623 EC Hermann Hess Stuttgart to Milano 8th Aug 88 C10455

 

 

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Amsteg Silenen RBe4/4 1468 Luzern to Airolo 8th Aug 88 C10457

 

 

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Bellinzona 30th July 88 C9771

 

 

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We are back at Arth Goldau again today.

 

 

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Arth Goldau Ae3/5i 10679 5th Aug 88 C10134

 

 

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Arth Goldau Ae6/6 11520 Shunting coach for extra train on SOB 5th Aug 88 C10198

 

 

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Arth Goldau 5th Aug 88 C10210

 

 

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Arth Goldau Ae6/6 northbound freight 5th Aug 88 C10222

 

 

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Arth Goldau BTRe4/4 91 pushing, train to Luzern 7th Aug 88 C10430

 

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I've been continuing to work on sorting out photos for this thread, the latest are from Germany in 1992.

 

So we'll leave Switzerland for a while and visit the narrow gauge railways in the Harz.

 

Today's photos are of Alexisbad, on the Selketalbahn, which runs from Gernrode to Eisfelder Talmuhle.  Alexisbad is the junction for the line to Harzgerode.

 

 

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Alexisbad 99 7240 Harzgerode to Eisfelder Talmuhle 7th Aug 82 C17560

 

 

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Alexisbad 99 7232 Eisfelder Talmuhle to Harzgerode 7th Aug 92 C17565

 

 

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Alexisbad 99 7232 Eisfelder Talmuhle to Harzgerode 7th Aug 92 C17569

 

 

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Alexisbad 99 7232 Eisfelder Talmuhle to Harzgerode 7th Aug 92 C17570

 

 

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Alexisbad 99 7232 Eisfelder Talmuhle to Harzgerode 7th Aug 92 C17572

 

 

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The Selketal Bahn again today, this time at the northern terminus, Gernrode.  There is also a standard gauge line through Gernrode, from Quedlingburg to Frose.

 

It was a very hot day when I visited, with the temperature well into the 30s.

 

All the railway staff were in the station building playing cards.

 

 

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Gernrode 99 6102 9th Aug 92 C17707

 

 

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Gernrode 99 7232 9th Aug 92 C17709

 

 

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Gernrode 199 870 9th Aug 92 C17711

 

 

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Gernrode 9th Aug 92 C17717

 

 

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Gernrode 9th Aug 92 C17722

 

 

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David,

 

Interesting pics from the Harz, amazing how the rolling stock and infrastructure looks quite tatty when compared with todays HSB. One of my regrets is that I never made it to the Harz before the Wall came down. Only made it as far as East Berlin.

 

Not sure if you are aware but the standard gauge line from Gernrode to Quedlingburg has since been converted to metre gauge and is now operated by the HSB.

 

Many thanks for more excellent pictures. Please keep them coming!!

 

Keith

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David,

 

Interesting pics from the Harz, amazing how the rolling stock and infrastructure looks quite tatty when compared with todays HSB. One of my regrets is that I never made it to the Harz before the Wall came down. Only made it as far as East Berlin.

 

Not sure if you are aware but the standard gauge line from Gernrode to Quedlingburg has since been converted to metre gauge and is now operated by the HSB.

 

Many thanks for more excellent pictures. Please keep them coming!!

 

Keith

 

 

Many thanks for the comments.  I'd forgotten about the line to Quedlingburg being converted to metre gauge.  I have about 250 - 300 photos around the Harz from 1992.

 

I also had a look at part of the Harzquerbahn in 1991, it looked even tattier then.  Some of the 1991 photos are in this thread, quite a bit earlier on.

 

Even in 1992 I remember groups of children clustering around my car when I parked it in a village, they had seen very few British Cars and were fascinated by it being right hand drive.

 

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Was in Austria the last time by car in 2012 - and you wouldn't believe it - in upper Austria (Salzkammergut),  I got even a comment by an adult that the steering wheel is on the wrong side. And he was not joking... :mosking: 

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Photos at Harzgerode today.

 

Harzgerode is at the end of the branch from Alexisbad on the Selketal Bahn.

 

 

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Harzgerode 997232 7th Aug 92 C17573

 

 

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Harzgerode 997232 7th Aug 92 C17574

 

 

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Harzgerode 997232 Harzgerode to Eisfelder Talmuhle 7th Aug 92 C17575

 

 

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Harzgerode 997232 Harzgerode to Eisfelder Talmuhle 7th Aug 92 C17579

 

 

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Harzgerode 7th Aug 92 C17585

 

 

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Was in Austria the last time by car in 2012 - and you wouldn't believe it - in upper Austria (Salzkammergut),  I got even a comment by an adult that the steering wheel is on the wrong side. And he was not joking... :mosking:

Pity my poor mother who was asked to step out to be berated by East German traffic police after our car was pulled over for being 2kph over the speed limit in 1978.  Picture their embarrassment when she returned to the passenger seat and I drove off!

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A look at Stiege today.

 

At Stiege the line from Gernrode divides into two, one line goes to the terminus at Hasselfelde, the other goes to Eisfelder Talmuhle, connecting with the Harzquerbahn.

 

Stiege is noteworthy in having a reversing loop which allows trains to travel from Gernrode to Eisfelder Talmuhle without reversing.  The whole train is simply run round the loop and back through the station for a second time.

 

 

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Stiege view west with reversing loop 7th Aug 92 C17547

 

 

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Stiege 7th Aug 92 C17549

 

 

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Stiege 7th Aug 92 C17550

 

 

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Stiege 99 7232 Eisfelder Talmuhle to Harzgerode 7th Aug 92 C17555

 

 

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Stiege 99 7232 Eisfelder Talmuhle to Harzgerode 7th Aug 92 C17556

 

 

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Today we move to the southern end of the Harzquerbahn, at Nordhausen.  

 

For a change we'll have a few photos of the standard gauge there.

 

 

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Nordhausen 202 245 7th Aug 92 C17500

 

 

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Nordhausen 7th Aug 92 C17504

 

 

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Nordhausen 142 007 7th Aug 92 C17526

 

 

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Nordhausen 346 428 7th Aug 92 C17528

 

 

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Nordhausen 204 820 7th Aug 92 C17530

 

 

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Drei Annen Hohne today with more photos of the metre gauge Harz trains.

 

 

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Drei Annen Hohne 99 7244 adding coaches to Wernigerode to Nordhausen train 6th Aug 92 C17465

 

 

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Drei Annen Hohne 6th Aug 92 C17477

 

 

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Drei Annen Hohne 199 877 Wernigerode to Nordhausen 8th Aug 92 C17625

 

 

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Drei Annen Hohne 99 7239 Wernigerode to Nordhausen 8th Aug 92 C17632

 

 

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Drei Annen Hohne 99 7239 Wernigerode to Nordhausen 8th Aug 92 C17633

 

 

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More from Drei Annen Hohne today.

 

 

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Drei Annen Hohne 99 7244 shunting through coaches Brocken to Gernrode 6th Aug 92 C17464

 

 

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Drei Annen Hohne 199 870 Wernigerode to Brocken6th Aug 92 C17466

 

 

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Drei Annen Hohne 99 7241 Wernigerode to Nordhausen 6th Aug 92 C17471

 

 

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Drei Annen Hohne 99 7241 Wernigerode to Nordhausen and 99 7222 6th Aug 92 C17473

 

 

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Drei Annen Hohne 99 7245 Wernigerode to Brocken 6th Aug 92 C17880

 

 

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Some photos taken from the Brocken for today.  The line had only re opened in the autumn of 1991, so in 1992 it was very busy, the trains were packed and the timetable was not working too well on the day I was there.

 

 

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Brocken HSB 99 7245 6th Aug 92 C17439

 

 

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Brocken old border fence and the raiIway6th Aug 92 C17443

 

 

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Brocken 6th Aug 92 C17446

 

 

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Brocken 6th Aug 92 C17447

 

 

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Brocken 997245 6th Aug 92 C17448

 

 

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Eisfelder Talmuhle today.

 

This is the junction for the lines to Wernigerode and Gernrode when heading north from Nordhausen.

 

 

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Eisfelder Talmuhle 99 7234 7th Aug 92 C17534

 

 

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Eisfelder Talmuhle 99 7234 Eisfeldr Talmuhle to Harzgerode 7th Aug 92 C17538

 

 

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Eisfelder Talmuhle 99 7234 Eisfeldr Talmuhle to Harzgerode 7th Aug 92 C17540

 

 

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Eisfelder Talmuhle 99 7234 Eisfeldr Talmuhle to Harzgerode 7th Aug 92 C17541

 

 

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Eisfelder Talmuhle 99 7234 Eisfeldr Talmuhle to Harzgerode 7th Aug 92 C17542

 

 

David

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Photos from Hasselfelde today, at the end of the line through Stiege.

 

The train was a special working from Wernigerode for an American party.

 

 

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Hasselfelde NWE 21 special train 7th Aug 92 C17596

 

 

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Hasselfelde NWE 21 special train 7th Aug 92 C17599

 

 

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Hasselfelde 7th Aug 92 C17600

 

 

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Hasselfelde 7th Aug 92 C17601

 

 

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Hasselfelde NWE 21 special train 7th Aug 92 C17604

 

 

David

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Still in the Harz, this time some photos of the station and yard at Benneckenstein and one of the disused trackbed at Braunlage.

 

 

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Benneckenstein 9th Aug 92 C17726

 

 

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Benneckenstein 9th Aug 92 C17727

 

 

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Benneckenstein 9th Aug 92 C17728

 

 

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Benneckenstein 99 7238 Wernigerode to Nordhausen 9th Aug 92 C17730

 

 

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Braunlage trackbed of mineral extension of SHE 10th Aug 92 C17895

 

 

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Yes, I also saw some transporter wagons in real life at Innertkirchen, Switzerland, last year. Stacked up and looking like they'd been out of use for a while, I think they might only be used occasionally for traffic connected with the hydro power plants there (the original purpose of the MIB line from Meiringen I believe).

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