Between 1958 and 1973, Peter Gray visited Austria several times. This volume contains Peter’s remarkable colour photographs of Austria’s narrow gauge and industrial lines, still operated largely by a wide variety of steam classes, in the last few years before the country’s railways were transformed by dieselisation, decline and closures. Over subsequent decades, several of
the lines portrayed have sadly disappeared, and those which survive have been transformed by the effects of half a century of rationalisation and modernisation. Peter’s photographs are a record of a bygone era, allowing us to step back in time to anAustria now long disappeared, but captured for posterity by the lens of an accomplished photographer and enthusiast. The lines depicted in this book include the narrow gauge operations of the ÖBB and the Steiermärkische Landesbahnen, as well as the Zillertalbahn and Achenseebahn, and three contrasting industrial locations.

A companion volume, PETER GRAY’S TRAVELS Volume 1: Austria Standard Gauge covers the country’s standard gauge public lines.