Last update: 13/07/1996

What's new in the Harz ?	Everything...
June 2nd 1996 - a *NEW* railbus is in service on the HSB () 1996 - new pass for the Selketalbahn"() 1995 - 3 new railbuses (), 2 "Talbot" and 1 "Fuchs" dating back to the fifties... 1995 - Mallet 99 5906 stays in the Harz (), and she is back in operating condition on the Selketalbahn... Index of the "NEWS" pages () 1995 and 1996 A chronicle of the Harz Attn. enthusiasts / railfans, this chronicle (), gives you information about the service and life of all steam locomotives and most pieces of equipment, stations, also people and organisations...	The purpose of our information pages about the Harz narrow-gauge... is to bring you everything that you always wanted to know and everything you need to prepare your next visit... () Virtual visits of the lines () General overview () Historical background () Attn. enthusiasts / railfans (others too...) including... all about the steam locomotives of "the Harz"... () The people and the organisations in the Harz () Links to other WEB sites directly related to "the Harz" Miscelaneous, incl. general information about this WEB site ()

Information pages about the Harz narrow-gauge...
Everything you wanted to know and everything you need to prepare your next visit in the Harz: timetables, planning and description of "specials", prices (fares, HSB special services), examples of excursions, hotels and other ressources for the tourism, maps (the HSB network and the answer to "but where the hell is the Harz ?"), drawings, photos images, figures incl. motive power rosters, etc... , addresses, bibliography (books, videos, articles in magazines); index of information pages, (in ).

Virtual visits of the lines...

• The Harzquerbahn
• The Selketalbahn
• The Brockenbahn

General overview

• The narrow-gauge railways of the Harz, an introduction
• Still a real network... 132km !
• Now a star...
• ... located in an exceptionnally nice area, with a 1000-years old cultural background, now preserved as a "National Park" !

Historical background

• From "the original companies" to the HSB... with 40 years of "DR" inbetween...
• The consequences of WW2
• Almost... "100% steam" until 1988...

Attn. enthusiasts / railfans (others too...)

• All the steam locomotives of the Harz
• Diesels in the Harz, locomotives and railbuses
• Passenger cars of the Harz
• Freight and service cars of the Harz
• Some technical stuff... brake systems on the Harz
• Some technical stuff... track, signalling, etc... on the Harz
• The stations of the Harz
• Running the trains in the Harz

• A chronicle of "the Harz", everything about the life of steam locomotives, diesel locomotives and railbuses, stations, etc... and people too... ()

The people and the organisations in the Harz

• After more than 40 years of "DR", the HSB
• The IG "Harzer Schmalspurbahnen e.V." support group ()
• The "Freundeskreis Selketalbahn e.V.", the "Friends of the Selketalbahn" support group ()

Links related to the Harz...

• The Fach- und Wirtschaft Hochschuhle - Harz in Wernigerode, at http://www.fh-harz.de/ proposes a "tourism oriented" folder about Wernigerode and the area (only ), including a few pages with pictures about the narrow-gauge network in the Harz, but probably its main interest resides in the information about the area, most useful for the potential visitor...
• A new server claiming that it is intended to "serve the Harz area" is being developped by Trias GmbH at http://www.dhh-3.de (only ): it already incudes data about tourism, e.g. hotels...
• Another new one is devoted to the city of Nordhausen at http://www.nordhausen.de/ (also only ).

And, as the Harz is a really wonderful area, of really TOP tourism value, no doubt other WEB sites will be created too !

Miscelaneous

• About this WEB site... ()