Thread: Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??
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Old January 3rd 12, 08:32 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.europe
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Default Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could ithappen here...??
On 02/01/2012 20:47, wrote:
On 02/01/2012 20:18, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
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They were running steam engines well into the 1970s, were they not.

Yes, but that was true in West Germany. East Germany used steam
traction into the 1980s on goods trains.

Didn't know that. Where else in Europe, either East or West, were they
running steam in revenue service until the 80s?

Vale of Rheidol :-)

There are reports of steam in the USSR into the 1980s.

DB had "working" narrow-gauge steam in the former east until the lines
were sold off in the mid-2000s - perhaps a bit of a grey area how "real"
it was, but they were regular timetabled services with were normal
passengers as well as anoraks.

Poland never stopped using steam, with Wolsztyn passing pretty
seamlessly from working trains to using steam as a way of encouraging
tourism. There was still steam hauled freight in the early 2000s.

There is still working industrial steam in Bosnia, Kosovo and maybe Serbia.

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