RAW Goerlitz DR | 1993
With the DR's fading individual identity onwards from re-unification came the rundown of its Goerlitz narrow gauge workshops.
However on this day in 1993 loco 99 1761-8 from Cranzahl has emerged and is put through it's paces upon the works multi-gauge test track.
RAW 'DSF' ( German-Soviet Friendship) Goerlitz succeeded the well-equipped facility Bw Schlauroth. Loosely speaking E-Bw Schlauroth, situated at the western section of the electrified Silesian Railway, became obsolete post 1945 when this important electrified route ceased to exist.
Despite such excellent facilities it appears that little opportunity to diversify prevailed, except that some standard gauge locos passed through mid '90s, so that by 1996 came full closure with all narrow gauge works transferred to Meiningen.
Many thanks to works representative Mr Winfried Meyer offering an exhaustive tour upon our arrival there unannounced.
31st March 1993
RAW Goerlitz DR | 1993
With the DR's fading individual identity onwards from re-unification came the rundown of its Goerlitz narrow gauge workshops.
However on this day in 1993 loco 99 1761-8 from Cranzahl has emerged and is put through it's paces upon the works multi-gauge test track.
RAW 'DSF' ( German-Soviet Friendship) Goerlitz succeeded the well-equipped facility Bw Schlauroth. Loosely speaking E-Bw Schlauroth, situated at the western section of the electrified Silesian Railway, became obsolete post 1945 when this important electrified route ceased to exist.
Despite such excellent facilities it appears that little opportunity to diversify prevailed, except that some standard gauge locos passed through mid '90s, so that by 1996 came full closure with all narrow gauge works transferred to Meiningen.
Many thanks to works representative Mr Winfried Meyer offering an exhaustive tour upon our arrival there unannounced.
31st March 1993