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    The Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (German: Harzer Schmalspurbahnen or HSB) is a railway company that operates a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge network...
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    The Harz Railway or Trans-Harz Railway (German: Harzquerbahn) was formerly the main line of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (Harzer Schmalspurbahnen or...
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    (Harz Narrow Gauge Railways), colloquially known as the Harzquerbahn (Trans-Harz Railway), a narrow (metre)-gauge steam and diesel-powered railway network...
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    Stiege–Eisfelder Talmühle connecting line. All of them are now owned by the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (Harzer Schmalspurbahnen). The line follows the Selke river between...
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    summit. Mountain railways often use narrow gauge tracks to allow for tight curves in the track and reduce tunnel size and structure gauge, and hence construction...
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    Harz Railway and Selke Valley Railway form the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways railway network in the Harz mountain range of Germany. It runs from the station...
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  • extensive of those still employing steam traction is the Harz mountain group of metre-gauge lines, the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen. Other notable lines are...
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    country to transport standard gauge vehicles on broad gauge lines. They are also in use on the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways to transport limestone from the...
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  • predominant form of motive power used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn on its narrow-gauge railways. For certain duties diesel locomotives were also used, albeit these...
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  • remaining 760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) gauge railway in Bulgaria. Some industrial narrow-gauge railways and a children's railway can still be found in Belarus particularly...
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    of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways system in Germany. Running numbers 99 5901-3 and 99 5906 are in working order. The Blonay–Chamby museum railway has two...
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    NWE No. 21 (category Narrow gauge steam locomotives of Germany)
    is a narrow gauge steam locomotive that was built in 1939 for a track gauge of one metre and is still on duty with the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (HSB)...
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    DRG Class 99.22 (category Metre gauge steam locomotives)
    end was nigh, it transferred to the Harz and is in service today on the network of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (Harzer Schmalspurbahnen or HSB) between...
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    Quedlinburg (section Railway)
    branch of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways was extended to Quedlinburg from Gernrode, giving access to the historic steam narrow gauge railway, Alexisbad and...
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    Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR) in East Germany. Today the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways uses it exclusively for railway specials. Currently (2007) the vehicle is stabled...
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    Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Germany is 80. Germany was ranked fourth among national European rail systems in the 2017 European Railway Performance...
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  • The largest of these is the Harzer Schmalspurbahn (Harz Narrow Gauge Railways) network in the Harz Mountains, but the lines in Saxony and on the coast...
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    central buffer coupling that has found widespread use, especially in narrow-gauge railways. In Switzerland this type of coupling is called a central buffer...
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    NWE Nos. 6 and 7 (category Narrow gauge steam locomotives of Germany)
    service, the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways took both engines over. Locomotive 99 6101, formerly NWE 6, now in the care of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railway Society...
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    Nordhausen, Thuringia (category Towns in the Harz)
    NWE added a line, with the full network operating by 1899. The Harz Narrow Gauge Railways are maintained today by local authorities and frequented primarily...
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  • American equipment breakdown insurer Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (German: Harzer Schmalspurbahnen), a steam railway in Germany Erivan K. Haub School of...
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  • includes: Rübeland Railway (Rübelandbahn) Harz Narrow Gauge Railways Harz Railway (Harzquerbahn) Brocken Railway (Brockenbahn) Selke Valley Railway (Selketalbahn)...
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    Güntersberge (category Villages in the Harz)
    a stop on the Selke Valley Railway, part of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways network, running from Quedlinburg up the Harz range to Hasselfelde. The Bundesstraße...
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    were separated, the former continuing as an independent company. Harz Narrow Gauge Railways Hans Röper; Gerhard Zieglgänsberger (1980), Die Selketalbahn (in...
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  • Red Line subway opens in Los Angeles. February 1 – The metre gauge Harz Narrow Gauge Railways in the former East Germany are moved from federal control to...
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    Hasselfelde (category Towns in the Harz)
    is 1,941 (2021). The town has a railway station on the Selke Valley Railway, part of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (HSB). Along the road leading to...
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    this narrow gauge Harz Railway ('Harzquerbahn') was opened, followed in 1898 by the Brocken Railway (Brockenbahn), which was also narrow gauge. On 1...
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    Friedrichroda and Bad Tabarz Nordhausen in the South Harz. This tramway network run by the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways is notable because it supplements the diesel-hybrid...
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    converted by the Harz Narrow Gauge Railway Company to metre gauge. Since 26 June 2006 the line has been re-opened as part of the Selke Valley Railway. On 28 July...
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    Brocken station (category Transport in the Harz)
    the Harz, in central Germany. It lies in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and is the end point of the Brocken Railway, operated by the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways...
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