Donawitz steel works
I'm struggling to identify my precise movements on this afternoon, as my notes are sparse and I didn't have a current timetable. Often I found that by April stocks of the timetable book had sold out, with the new one coming into force in late May. No internet back then!
Anyhow, this is taken from the platform at the small halt here. The two locos in the yard appear to be 1042.545 and .517.
This place has a dark history, falling as it did in the Soviet zone of Austria, occupied from 1945-55 after which independence and neutrality for the country were agreed by the Allied powers. In the immediate aftermath of WW2 part of the works was taken over by the Soviet secret police (then NKVD), and used for torture and executions.
Donawitz steel works
I'm struggling to identify my precise movements on this afternoon, as my notes are sparse and I didn't have a current timetable. Often I found that by April stocks of the timetable book had sold out, with the new one coming into force in late May. No internet back then!
Anyhow, this is taken from the platform at the small halt here. The two locos in the yard appear to be 1042.545 and .517.
This place has a dark history, falling as it did in the Soviet zone of Austria, occupied from 1945-55 after which independence and neutrality for the country were agreed by the Allied powers. In the immediate aftermath of WW2 part of the works was taken over by the Soviet secret police (then NKVD), and used for torture and executions.