A Time Of Change On Saxony’s Narrow Gauge Railways, 19903

In the top rank of Nick Lera’s acclaimed documentaries on world steam, this high quality film was made as soon as the communist regime in East Germany ended, revealing a fascinating 45 year time warp. The local economy around Oschatz still depended on SaxonMeyer locomotives hauling china clay through cobbled streets filled with the thick sulphurous smoke of brown coal sourced from 950mm opencast railways. Repeat visits in 19913 show rapid change as Germany’s western economy took hold. Orange safety suits and bright blue diesels failed to save the freight traffic, but Zittau’s two steam lines on the Czech border survive for tourism, and the film ends in the former Harz border zone with the ceremonial breach of the Brocken mountain’s own Berlintype Wall by the first train to steam to the summit in 30 years.

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