Turkey, the country that straddles Europe and Asia, reflects this
in the mix of cultures from both continents to be found there. The
western and southern coastal areas are the most familiar to Western
holidaymakers but the interior, Black Sea coast and east of the
country are less visited. As Western railway enthusiasts found less
and less to attract them in Europe they discovered that Turkey had
steam locomotives aplenty, reflecting the fact that this was a
country that had embraced Western industrialisation and
modernisation ahead of most other Middle Eastern countries. This,
and the shifting alliances Turkey had embraced, was also reflected
in the variety of countries that had built the steam locomotives.
Examples could be found from builders in Germany, Sweden, France,
the United States and the United Kingdom. These varied from ancient
specimens of Prussian State railway design to modern ten coupled
designs built after the Second World War. Finding and photographing
trains presented certain problems. Train services in this large
country could be sparse, timekeeping notoriously unreliable and the
roads, very often of dirt, hazardous. However, if these problems
could be endured the landscape offered fantastic photographic
opportunities.
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