Expiriences with Officialdom

[jsimantov]

Thanks for the coverage Christo!

There's only one things I can't understand: how did you manage to wander around the ΜΘ and take all these shots? when poor visitors from the far south attempted to enter that mythical place in the middle to late 80's, they had to face a 1st degree questioning, sometimes police etc...

Anyway, the essential thing is that we have now a complete photographic documentation on these locomotives!

Iossif

[christo]

how did you manage to wander around the ΜΘ and take all these shots?

With a photo permit and a minder following me everywhere, my dear friend.

Photo Balkanmodels: Permit to photograph at PES Thessaloniki

Photo Balkanmodels: Permit to photograph at NES Thessaloniki.

I had far more permits including the Engine Shed Installations but I do not know if I kept them all.

christo.

[jsimantov]

Hi, I obviously know these permits, but what I meant was that somehow, very frequently everything seemed to fall under the items in paragraph 2!!!

Iossif

[christo]

to fall under the items in paragraph 2!!!

..and not only. Sometimes I would go to their offices in Dodekanisou Street and The General director, or the press officer ( who had an office next to his) will be unavailable. In such desperate moments I resorted to desperate measures " Any visits to Greece after 1976 were short (especially Christmas and Easter) so time to photograph was very precious.

Christo.

PS. Maybe I should open another topic for these matters

[jsimantov]

Not a bad idea to open a separate topic! Authorities in ex-Iron Curtain countries were systematically blamed in those years for arresting railway enthusiasts on spying charges, but, being an old enthusiast myself, I can testify that this procedure was VERY common in our country as well....

[christo]

arresting railway enthusiasts on spying charges

..plane spotters also

christo.