German Steam DVD East & West 1969-1971, Steam Traction, Motive Power, DDR, DB

German Steam DVD: East & West, 1969 \u2013 1971\n\nIn 1970, twenty-five years after the end of World War Two,\nGermany remained a divided country. \nNot only was it spilt politically between the capitalist\nWest and communist East, but the railways of each country were both following differing\npolicies. \nAlthough steam was still to be found in both East and\nWest Germany, in the latter it was gradually being replaced by diesel and\nelectric but in the former it remained still the dominant form of motive power.\nIn this programme we feature steam traction between 1969\nand 1971 in both the Federal and former Democratic Republics of Germany. \nIn the DDR Saalfeld, Gera, Neustadt (Orla), Aue and\nB\u00E4renstein are visited, featuring lineside sequences on the Gera and Leipzig\nlines from Saalfeld and elsewhere.\nThe narrow-gauge Cranzahl-Kurort Oberwiesenthal and\nWolkenstein-J\u00F6hstadt lines are also visited where trains are followed by car. \nThe former features the Neubau 2.