Weimar Railway Museum
The Weimar Railway Museum is a railway museum in Weimar . It is located east of the train station on the site of the former Weimar depot on Eduard-Rosenthal-Strasse and has been a technical monument of today's Free State of Thuringia since 1980 . It is home to Thuringia's largest collection of historic locomotives . Since 1995 the Thuringian Railway Association e. V. Sponsor of the museum. In 2018 the association bought the site.
Extent of the collection
Over 30 different steam , diesel and electric locomotives will be presented . The focus of the collection is on diesel and electric locomotives from the former Deutsche Reichsbahn , with all of the series that have been in use up until recently. The locomotives are only partially owned by the association; a large part is made available on loan from Deutsche Bahn AG , its subsidiaries or other railway companies.
The collection of a plurality of diesel locomotives find Series 119 , two of the series 118 and each having a series 120 , class 132 and V 36 as well as several small locomotives. The collection of electric locomotives ranges from the series E 04 and other pre-war designs such as the series E 44 , series E 18 and series E 94 to the standard locomotive types of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (series 211 , 230 , 242 , 143 , 155 and 251 ) to one Prototype of the first three-phase locomotive ( DB class 120 ) to be mass-produced worldwide , the 120 005-4 , which was taken over in autumn 2009 as a loan from DB Systemtechnik . The AEG 12X (128 001-5) , which was on permanent loan from Bombardier Transportation to the museum on February 19, 2014, is also the test three-phase current locomotive planned / built as the successor to the 120 series and still operational (as of 2019) exhibited here. In addition, two steam locomotives of the 50.35 and 52.80 series , five battery-powered tow vehicles for shunting and two SKL 25s are also on display. Various passenger , sleeping , dining and freight cars complete the collection.
Special museum offers
On the last weekend in May and at the Weimar onion market , which usually takes place on the second weekend in October each year, the association holds a large railway festival. It takes place under a certain motto. In addition to the museum vehicles based in Weimar, guest locomotives from other associations and also locomotives from the operating service of DBAG or railway companies will be presented. The association organizes special trips and offers the organization of such special trips as a service for third parties.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Thuringian Railway Association e. V. takes over the Weimar depot. February 22, 2018, accessed April 3, 2018 .
- ^ The vehicles - electric locomotives. In: thueringer-eisenbahnverein.de. TEV Thüringer Eisenbahnverein eV, accessed on October 22, 2011 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 21 ″ N , 11 ° 20 ′ 30.1 ″ E