Harz Mountains Steam Trains and Beer

This is a beautiful spot in North East Germany. It's tucked out of the way so a 5 hour, pleasant train journey from Cologne.

Although the the revenue is from tourism the these are full size steam trains running on a fairly extensive network. An accident of fate as this was a military zone and listening post in while Germany was divided and the railway didn't get modernised.

The Route

London St Pancras -Eurostar- Brussels -ICE- Cologne -ICE- Hannover -Regional- Goslar -Regional- Wernigerode

I used pre-booked tickets and reservations for this trip. DB were offering a 59 Euro Ticket including Eurostar. As there were 6 people travelling this had to booked directly with DB by phone as couldn't book than 5 seats online.

We travelled to Cologne on the day 1 and then on to Wernigerode on day 2. We stopped for lunch at Goslar. A beautiful small town with luggage lockers at the station.

German trains serve beer in glasses, very civilised

Goslar performing clock

Cab of the regional train

Cologne Cathederal

ICE Train beer in glasses

Brocken Train Route

Wernigerode

Brocken Mountain