This book provides a detailed description of what happens at a railway maintenance depot, past and present. It is divided into five chapters:
- The historical background: how maintenance depots were organised in the 19th and early 20th century and on the separate East and West German rail networks.
- The main features of a maintenance depot, such as water towers, loco washing bays, coal bunkers and diesel fuelling points.
- Turntables, traversers, wheel lathes, workshops, and depot heating, water and power supplies.
- Shunters, snowploughs and other maintenance vehicles.
- How steam locos are maintained and prepared for service.
Over 100 photos. 158 pages. Hardback. German text. Published 2006.