Notes

Another thing from my first tour with DSLR: A lonesome signal with some derelict tracks in Grauhof. Grauhof is a small selection of houses (way below village) near Goslar.

The first railway line from Vienenburg (north-east of Goslar) to Hildesheim (west of Goslar) didn’t lead via Goslar itself, but instead the much smaller Grauhof, possibly thanks to the huge mess Germany was politically in the 19th century. Later, a second line was built a few kilometers to the south, which finally got Goslar it’s rail connection. During the cold war, the east-west traffic in the region died nearly completely, seeing as Goslar is less than twenty kilometers away from the old Iron Curtain. Consequently, the old Grauhof line, which had been used for freight trains before, was shut down.

At some corners, however, you can still find bits and pieces, such as here. The old semaphore has lost most of it’s small parts, but I think in the autumn sun it still looked nice here.