Jane I am so sorry. When we took grand daughters skiing at Somerset House for a few years. I wanted to try and daughter wouldt let me in case I fell and broke an arm. But I had somewhat dismissed this till you posted!
Are you by any chance a Chalet School reader? We went to Pertisau in summer but I always wanted to go to the Achensee in winter, if you are unable to ski.
I have pasted this from a Seefeld visitor reporting on line, as Seefeld rang a bell.
"Jenbach (next town east) station is perhaps unique in Europe if not the world in that on either side of the main (Austrian State Railway) platforms are narrow gauge lines (different gauges) belonging to different companies, both of which still use steam engines, one exclusively, (and they are believed to be the oldest working steam railway engines in the world), the other with steam trains alternating with diesel railcars. The latter has a very interesting beer wagon.
We use the all-steam one to go to Pertisau. A ticket inspector comes round the outside of the (open) carriages on the running boards, checks our tickets and then gives sweets to all the children travelling. Also notable is the number of passengers who use the intermediate stations.
The last part of the journey is by boat on Europe’s highest lake, the Achensee. Pertisau, thinly disguised, is first of . . . . the locations for the Chalet School in Elinor Brent-Dyer’s books. "
The Achensee was once in the 19th century a fashionable holiday place - my grandmother visited with her wealthy German cousins.
