Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: dampf

We rode on the 16.29 Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Freiberg via Tharandt Steam Festival special which was double-headed by Class 50 2-10-0 3648-8 and Class 23-10 2-6-2 35 1097-1. Here we are departing from platform 1 under Dresden station's splendid overall roof. The locos are just visible at the head of our train! A fair crowd turned out to watch and film us leave. It's not often that I get asked to explain my pics but I was asked a fair question about why this image should fit into the Naturally Occurring Collages Group.This deserves a fair answer. One defintion of a collage is art that results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. On the face of it my image is of a railway station and it was taken as such. On another level the superimposed verticals, diagonals and curves of the silhouetted steelwork create an intriguing pattern. The shadowy figures "pasted' into the scene add to the effect of a collage of different shapes and angles. That was how my mind was working when I uploaded this shot - a found collage - although not necessarily when I took the picture. Perhaps an element of blur or vignetting might have taken it out of the realm of just a railway scene.

This attractive glass & metal covered staircase, dating from the 1909 rebuilding leads down from the island platform at Tharandt railway station to the subway & exit. I am reminded of the similar covered staircase at Quedlingburg station in the Harz.

Harzer Schmalspurbahnen. A visit to Wernigerode shed in the late evening after dinner and amongst the stabled & simmering 2-10-2T tanks used on the Brocken and Nordhausen services I found Mallet 0-4-4-0T 99 5902 (Arnold Jung, 1898) also in steam. HFF & have a GWE to everyone.

By the light of the silvery moon... After our one trip and dispose afternoon turn we have put Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48305 to bed on shed at Loughborough alongside 9F 92214.

We have run round, coupled up and now Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48305 stands at the north end of Leicester North station prior to working back to Loughborough. The 15.00 was our only trip but, as always, it was very enjoyable

The fireman of Burma Railways YD 2-8-2 967 has turned up the oil burner producing a tower of black smoke as the train moves off the river bridge to the east of Hnin Pale. This was on our way back northwards from Moulmein and was our second visit to the area around Hnin Pale.

This time from the train, we are approaching Steinerne-Renne station on the outskirts of Wernigerode on the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen. Class 99 2-10-2T 236 takes the steep curve with our train to the Brocken.

Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 45305 heads the 10.15 ex-Loughborough between the A46 and Birstall.

It's 07.09, still dark, still raining, and both BR Standard 2 78018 and GW Modified Hall 6990 Witherslack Hall have been lit up on this last day of the GCR's Last hurrah weekend. Other engines out today were 70013 Oliver Cromwell, 48624, 45305 and Class 31 diesel D5830.

Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 45407 heads out of Fort William with the 10.15 Jacobite service to Mallaig.

Climbing up the mountain out of Schierke on the Brocken line of the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen the train winds through thick pine forest with only occasional clearings where there is enough light for a decent on-train shot of the engine: 2-10-2T 99 7243-1.

Passing narrow gauge trains at Drei Annen Hohne station on the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen. On the left HSB Class 99-23 2-10-2T 99 7243-1 arrives from the Brocken while 99 7247-2 is taking water after arriving from Wernigerode. A third 2-10-2T was behind the camera, 99 7245-6, and this engine replaced 7247-2 before taking our train onward to Eisfelder Talmuelde.

Standing in the Down Loop at Loughborough Great Western Modified Hall 4-6-0 Witherslack Hall generates a bit of smoke. We were between trips and a few minutes later we dropped onto the dining stock to pull the 13.15 diner.

On the footplate of Great Western Railway Modified Hall 4-6-0 6990 Witherslack Hall as we climbed up the 1 in 176 gradient to Leicester North. All is well.

HSB narrow gauge 2-6-2T 99 6001 enters Alexisbad from Gernrode on the Selketalbahn past a beautiful wooden building which houses the Elysium Cafe & Restaurant. Just visible on the right is the River Selke from which the railway takes its name.

The Harz Mountains and the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen - narrow gauge (metre) steam. Staying in Wernigerode we drove to Drei Annen Hohne station and took the train south to Eisfelder Talmühle on the line to Nordhausen. We were pulled there and back by 2-10-2T 99 7245-6 and this shot was taken while taking water before the engine ran round. The engines of DR Class 99.23 are metre gauge steam locomotives, that were procured by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) in East Germany from 1954 to 1956. When they entered service they had operating numbers 99 231–99 247. Today they are numbered 99 7231–99 7247.

The day's action is over and HSB (Harzer Schmalspurbahnen) Class 99-23 2-10-2T 99 7241-5 is back on shed in Wernigerode as the sun sets behind.

This last gasp of Chinese steam is no more and as far as is known there are no other regular standard gauge steam-hauled passenger trains left in China. Or the world? The Baiyin Non-ferrous Metals Company 07.50 workers' morning train from Baiyin Town, headed by SY 2-8-2 1581 again, climbs up the valley.