In 1997 in Telbrake, a small Schöma shunts peat wagons alongside a public road near the works of Wichmann and Tabeling.

Looking the opposite way from the first shot just a few years later, the tracks into the yard had gone. However, the railway had not been closed down, but rerouted to avoid running alongside the street.

When returning in 2013 the picturesque railway to the moors was still in use and now a new Schöma from 2010 was in charge of line work.

For a couple of kilometres the railway runs alongside country roads before reaching the working part of the Vechtaer Moor.

On the edge of the moors, a peat works managed by Hone & Von Lehmden was operational in 1994.

By 2003 Hone & von Lehmden was reduced to a few hundered metres of track to push loaded wagons into the tipping shed.

At the same works in 2010 everything had closed down, and much of the site had been cleared, with just a few wagons remaining outside the mill. By 2013 the mill had been demolished and no signs of the peatworks now exist.

Torfwerk Gramman used a small fleet of elderly Diema locos often running 2 trains in close proximity. Seen here in 1994 with the trains entering the works with only about 3 metres between them. Not recommended practice on Network Rail!

By 2003 Gramman was still using it's railway and some of the locos had seen a new coat of paint, seen here leaving the works for another trip to the moors.

When visited again in 2006, looking into the works from the road crossing, the railway operations had ceased and much of the track removed. A couple of the locos remained on site, just visible in the distance.

Torfwerk Zubrägel shared the long running line with Gramman, and the usual loco for line work for many years was a Schöma built in 1937 seen returning slowly with a full train in 1994.

By 2003 double heading was typically the order of the day seen here coupling up at the works.

In 1994, out on the moors, derailments were frequent, and were usually resolved quickly.

A couple of years later in 1996, and operations with Torfwerk Zubrägel had changed little with hydraulic grabs loading the block peat quickly into the waiting wagons.

In 1994, Torfwerk Zubrägel operated wagons of every description, and with the poor state of the trackwork, progress was slow on the return trip.

On the western side of Vechtaer Moor, Torfwerk Zubrägel was the last company still using a railway, but by September 2012 this had closed down as well, and by 2013, although the rails were still all in place, the rails had mostly disappeared under the grass and mud.