Koglhof Austria - The train featured in last week's picture did have one rather alarming moment during our passage along the 760 millimetre gauge line from Weiz to Ratten in Austria.
 
I had just completed my turn to have a ride on the locomotive footplate, and was now back in the train when, just after we had left the little station at Koglhof, what should we see but another passenger train approaching us on the single track!
 
Prepare to abandon ship, or train in this case.
 
It was very fortunate that we met in open countryside, where each could see the other coming, so no harm came of it.
 
We backed down to the station we had just left, where there was a passing loop.
 
Whether our driver had left the station without permission, or the stationmaster had dispatched our train in error, we never found out.
 
But it could have been nasty.
 
There are plenty of blind bends on that line.
 
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