A Passengers View of the Harz Mountain Railways - Nordhausen Nord to Wernigerode Hochschule Harz

In this video we see the Harz Railway between Nordhausen Nord and Wernigerode - Hochschule Harz from a passenger’s point of view. We start off on the balcony of the first coach immediately behind the locomotive for the first part of the video, next we take a look around the depot at Wernigerode Hochschule, finally we board a train back to Nordhausen Nord in very wet and windy conditions.
The Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (German: Harzer Schmalspurbahnen or HSB) is a railway company operating a metre gauge (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) network in the Harz mountains, located in Central Germany (formerly East Germany). The company was formed after the Second World War with the merger of the Gernrode-Harzgerode Railway Company and the Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railway Company, the entire network fell within the Soviet Zone of Occupation, later East Germany. After the compulsory acquisition of the line in 1949, the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn ran it until 1993.
On 1 February 1993 the private railway company Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH (HSB) took over the rolling stock and the daily running of the system from the Deutsche Reichsbahn, since then it has acted as both the railway operating company (EVU) and railway infrastructure company (EIU). HSB owns about 140 kilometres (86 miles) of track, connecting the principal towns of Wernigerode, Nordhausen and Quedlinburg. Much of the network is steeply graded and picturesque, with the most popular destination being the Brocken, the highest mountain in the region. The company runs a significant number of its trains with steam haulage, mostly employing 1950s vintage 2-10-2 tank locomotives, hauling traditional open-platform bogie carriages. The company is mainly owned by the various local authorities whose territories it serves.
On the day of our visit to the line we were booked to travel from Nordhausen to the Brocken, sadly Mother Nature stepped in to change our literary with winds rumoured to be well over 100mph preventing trains from running to the Brocken, instead we could either travel to Wernigerode or to Wernigerode - Hochschule Harz for a works visit. In this video we travel between Nordhausen and Wernigerode - Hochschule Harz.

To book your own trip, please click on this link –
www.hsb-wr.de/

For more information about the railway, please click on any of these links -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harz_Railway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harz_Narrow_Gauge_Railways
https://csrail.org/harz/2015/9/30/history-and-background-on-the-harzer-schmalspurbahnen-gmbh

This visit was part of a rail tour arranged by the “Railway Touring Company” - if it’s something you’d like to know more about, please clock on this link - https://www.railwaytouring.net/europe

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