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Austrian Railways 1998

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V200 002 with a special from Nuremburg to Linz & Heiflau.

05 September 1998



V200 002 at Linz HBf

05 September 1998



V200 002 at Linz HBf

05 September 1998



Romanian 2-8-4 preserved by OEG as OBB 12.14 at Linz HBf

05 September 1998



Gricers in the rain near Kleinreifling

05 September 1998



12.14 at Kleinreifling

05 September 1998



Kleinreifling in the rain

05 September 1998



12.14 shunts to take water ar Kleinreifling

05 September 1998



The dining car in the special from Nuremburg. This was open from 05.00 to midnight, and the food was excellent!

05 September 1998



Tony Pirie, FUT and others keep dry

05 September 1998



Roger Scanlon and Kevin Marsh phot the loco taking water

05 September 1998



Jim

05 September 1998



12.14 takes water at Kleinreifling

05 September 1998



Preserved OBB 0-E-0 electric 1080.01 at Heiflau

05 September 1998



0-E-0 electric 1080.01 at Heiflau

05 September 1998



Heiflau between rain showers

05 September 1998



Anthony and Jim sample the bier-keller that had been set up on the platform at Heiflau

05 September 1998



4-6-4T 78.618 at Heiflau. This had arrived with another special from Vienna

05 September 1998



Denise, Anthony, Paul & Jim outside the bier -keller

05 September 1998



78.618 & 12.14 at Heiflau

05 September 1998



Jim in the rain

05 September 1998



Me pictured at a run-past en-route to Selztal. It was so wet I decided not to take my camera with me.

05 September 1998



78.618 at Selztal. The locos swapped for the section from Heiflau, with the 78 taking our train and the 12 the one from Vienna.

05 September 1998



Inside the buffet at Selztal

05 September 1998



OBB electric 1141.016 at Selztal

05 September 1998



For the run through the long tunnel through the Pyhrn Pass a vintage electric was coupled ahead of the class 12.

05 September 1998



Later in the evening in the dining car while running back to Nuremburg at 140km/h behind V200 002

05 September 1998



In the dining car

05 September 1998

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I was born in 1953 and educated at Tonbridge and Bristol University. Since then I have been employed on the Railways, most of the time in the West Midlands. From 1980 I lived in Wolverhampton, and for the last 20 years in Bridgnorth