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Because the line followed a section of the valley of the Selke, a small river, it was also nicknamed the Selke Valley Railway (Selketalbahn). Another pet name was the Anhalt Harz Railway (Anhaltische Harzbahn). In 1896, a second railway company that wanted to build a narrow gauge railway through the Harz was entered into the commercial register.
The line begins at the HSB's narrow gauge station in Nordhausen (Nordhausen Nord). It lies in northwest of and parallel to the standard gauge railway station. After passing the link line to the Nordhausen Tramway that joins it from the right, the railway bends towards the north and runs for 7 km to the station of Niedersachswerfen Ost almost parallel to the standard gauge line from Nordhausen ...
Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums: National Railway Museum, York; Locomotion, Shildon
A Union Pacific Big Boy locomotive, which was built by the American Locomotive Company in 1941. This is a list of locomotives including notable locomotives that are preserved in museums or in heritage railways. For a list of locomotive types or models, please see List of locomotive classes. A list of locomotive classes that have a corresponding ...
The engines of DR Class 99.23 are metre gauge tank locomotives, that were procured by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) in East Germany from 1954 to 1956. When they entered service they had operating numbers 99 231–99 247. Today they are numbered 99 7231–99 7247.
Experimental locomotive «MIDI-Locomotive» Be 3/5: 12201 1919 1 0 75 1177 1963 Experimental locomotive «Slow Berta» Be 4/6: 12301 1919 1 0 75 1570 1963 Experimental locomotive «Doryphore» Be 4/6: 12302 1919 1 0 75 1415 1965 Experimental locomotive Ce 4/4: 13501-13502 1905 2 2 60 257 1968 Experimental locomotives «Eva» and «Marianne» Ce 6/6
On the other hand, the line never became important for passenger traffic, since most express trains bypassed the Harz. Near Ellrich the line crosses the modern border between Lower Saxony and Thuringia, which was the Inner German border from 1945 to 1990. The line was operated with freight trains during the existence of East Germany. Passenger ...
The classes are numbered according to the locomotive classification of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, which had been adopted by Deutsche Bahn in 1994. Since 2007, classifications for all German railway companies are centrally issued by the Federal Railway Office in line with UIC classification rules .