Journal 33

Front Cover Photo: This Salzburg railcar had been sold to Stern + Hafferl and thus was eqiupped with the standard mainline couplings plus screw links. It was subsequently returned with the Burmous - Trimelkam to the SVB and was therefore also equipped with SVB tram couplingsagain. It is driven by ARG members Dr Karl Pischt (see his article on P4Photo UNCREDITED

CONTENTS

 

2               Editorial

3               Chairman’s Corner

            OBB Tariffs in 2000

4-9          Salzburg Railways: SLB, SETG & SVB

By Dr Karl Pischl

10-12   A Skiing Holiday – No Way!

John Morgan in KItzbuhel

13-15    The ill-fated Class 1012

Bill Roberts describes their development

16-20    Die Feistritztalbahn: WeizBirkfeld

Keith Barrow profiles the line and its stock

21-22    Salzburg Lokalbahn Update

            From Geoff Bird

23-24    The ARG’s “E-world”

            Editor’s conversation with Martin Oakman

24            Bombadier’s Strasbourg Trams on Test

            Gerhard Urban’s report to the ARG E-group

25-27    Krumpe’ Closure

            Gerhard Urban reports another casualty

28-31    Narrow Gauge News

From Timothy Gooddy, Geoff Bird & Gerhard Urban

31        ARG Shop Window

32-33    Westbahn Update

Geoff Bird on work in progress and objections from Seekirchen residents

34-38    News from Austria

Complied by Keith Barrow with numerous contributions from G. Urban & G. Bird

39            Strasshof MuseumProgramme 2000

The Editor’s ‘compact version’ of the Strasshof brochure

40            More on the Cl 1016s

            Geoff Bird’s supplementary report

41        MITV - advertisement

42        Model News

From Timothy Gooddy

43        Rainer’s – ROCO Austrian News 2000 -advertisement

44            Vienna for Two

Geoff Bird at Café Schottenring

Dates for your Diary

and Finally…

 

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