Steam locomotive 85.13 of the Imperial-Royal Austrian State Railways.

■ Elaborate printing with fine decorative lines
■ Detailed design of the control system
■ Model with many separately applied plug-in parts

Once the major railway lines had largely been completed and the benefits to the developed economic regions became apparent, it soon became clear that more remote areas were being left behind. In response, efforts were made to open up these regions through the construction of “secondary railways”. These simpler branch lines connected countless small towns and villages to the wider railway network, bringing them access to the outside world.