the afternoon train waiting to leave from Aluksne behind a TY7 loco in July 1998

Centenary Festival : the train arrives at Aluksne through the centenary arch. This shows the "Soviet are" coach

Centenary Festival : Loco TY2-244 at Stameriene station, I'm not sure if this was the front or back of the train

Yours truly posing in front of the centenary train at Gulbene station

Centenary Festival : on the Soviet coach you were urged to sing the collective farm song !

Centenary Festival : Latvian TV records a group playing my favourite Latvian folk-song at Stameriena station

Centenary Festival : a station master made out of straw at Stameriena station

Centenary Festival : on the Soviet coach you could eat dry bread and swig vodka !!

the Latvian army welcomes the festival train to Aluksne in 2001

Banitis Festival 2001, each coach had a different them. The lady on the left led the community singing in the Music coach

Festival 2001 - a youth dancing exhibition at Paparde station

this the end of the narow gauge line at Gulbene !

Festival 2001 - inside the music coach

this steam loco is on long term loan from the Estonian Railway Museum, and will be used in service once restoration is compete. I think it was built by Skoda in 1950, and was used in Poland

the 1330 train to ALuksne boarding at Gulbene station in July 1998

the 1355 to Aluksne leaves Stameriena on July 16th 1994.

Market at Stameriena station during the 2001 festival

The FEstival train at Gulbene in 2001

the festival train at Aluksne in 2001

giving flowers to the driver at Paparde station during the 2001 festival