The Brockenbahn, opened between
Wernigerode and Schierke in 1898 with the line from Schierke to the summit of
the Brocken opening in the following year. The Brockenbahn was conceived
as a tourist railway to enable visitors to reach the summit of the Brocken Mountain and over 100 years later the Brockenbahn continues
to be well patronised with six or seven steam hauled trains per day. Here loco No.99-5901 as it brings its train through
the woods at Konigsberg in the Hartz mountains.
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