Subject: Re: Steinstuecken and the ghost counter enclave<br/>
Date: Jul 18, 2001 @ 20:06<br/>
Author: David Birch (&quot;David Birch&quot; &lt;dbirch@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-623831668">I&#39;d be interested to know how maintenance work was carried out on the <br/>
railway line which ran through Steinstücken. Was the short section <br/>
through West Berlin territory shown on Peter&#39;s map maintained by East <br/>
German workers of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, or were staff brought from <br/>
West Berlin? I assume it was the latter!<br/>
<br/>
On the subject of railway track maintenance in the GDR close to the <br/>
border with the West, I&#39;ve uploaded an interesting picture to the <br/>
files area at this link:<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/files/buchen_grenze.jpg">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/files/buchen_grenze.jpg</a><br/>
<br/>
It&#39;s from a book entitled &quot;Die innerdeutsche Grenze und ihre <br/>
Auswirkungen auf den Schienenverkehr&quot; by Hans-Joachim Fricke, <br/>
published in 1980 by Ritzau KG. It shows the main Hamburg-Berlin <br/>
railway line at the border near Büchen. The photo was taken in<br/>
1979 <br/>
from just on the Western side of the frontier and shows 3 East German <br/>
railway workers being guarded by 2 GDR border soldiers. Note that the <br/>
guard on the left appears to be on the &quot;west&quot; side of the GDR border <br/>
post - presumably that wasn&#39;t marking the exact border?<br/>
<br/>
David Birch</div>