European Trains and Trams: East German Narrow Gauge Steam-Part Two
- ISBN-10
- 1719162565
- ISBN-13
- 9781719162562
- Pages
- 42
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-06-14
- Author
- Don Benn
Description
This little photo album is the second of a series of booklets covering trains and trams in Europe and is self published via Createspace. I was accompanied on all trips, often by one of my brothers and sometimes by like minded colleagues from work. I made five trips to the German Democratic Republic ; in 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981 and 1983. It was an interesting place to visit and could be very cheap if west marks were exchanged for east marks on the black market. Hotels had to be booked in advance via Berolina Travel and persistence could result in being allowed to stay in hotels in the smaller towns such as the excellent Wilderman at Annaberg -Bucholz, where free enterprise was evident long before unification. These trips included visits to all nine of the remaining narrow gauge lines. The first booklet in this series 'East German Narrow Gauge Lines-Part One' includes photographs from five of those lines, taken in May 1981 and May 1983. This booklet, Part Two, covers all nine of the lines with pictures taken by my faithful Pentax KX 35 mm camera using Kodak colour slide film which has stood the test of time very well. I only visited some lines once but others on a number of occasions and the Harz System every time we went to the DDR. This resulted in a large number of images and so another booklet, Part Three, will be produced concentrating on the Harz lines. I briefly revisited the two Ostsee lines in 1999 and a couple of shots are included.
