Photo of the Week: Narrow-gauge Freight on the Lillafüred Forestry Railway

The D02-508 is a class Mk48 diesel-hydraulic locomotive that serves on the 76-cm-gauge Lillafüred Forest Railway (Lillafüredi Erdei Vasút). Though freight service is discontinued and only tourist excursion trains are operated on the two-line network building trains need some goods cars and therefore sometimes train enthusiasts can organize colourful photo charters with them. On this occasion the Mk48 pulled the freight and the photographers travelled in a separate train hauled by a class C50 small diesel locomotive:

At Lillafüred LÁEV station we switched loads and the C50 (road number C02-408) could be photographed with the Palace Hotel in the triangle leading to a dismantled branch line.

• More photographs of the Miskolc-Lillafüred-Garadna narrow-gauge railway are available at my homepage, benbe.hu (the link leads directly to a gallery)