A bit of prototype reading...

A good few months ago, Bruce (of HDLR) sent me a lovely email with book recommendations. Today I finally got around to sourcing the first book on the list - and as luck would have it managed to find a '1st edition' from 1961 from a specialist online book seller.

“Schmalspurig durch Österreich” (Narrow Gauge through Austria), by Krobot, Slezak and Sternhart, published by Verlag Slezak.

Bruce describes it as '... a magisterial ... survey of all Austrian narrow gauge railways with route maps, track plans, brief history, lots of historical b&w photos and complete stock lists with sketch drawings."

I can't wait to have a flick through it next week sat in my favourite arm chair with a good coffee and nice biscuit.