Kerzers-Kallnach Railway Museum

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kerzers-Kallnach Railway Museum
CIWL emblem WR402 07.jpg
CIWL emblem of the WR 402
Data
place Kerzers and Kallnach, SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Art
Railway vehicles / railway technology
opening 2002
management
Wymann family

The Kerzers-Kallnach Railway Museum was a privately run railway museum in Switzerland with exhibits such as locomotives , rail cars and railway technology. The museum was operated by the Wymann family. The museum site was on the one hand on Aegertenstrasse in Kerzers ( Canton of Friborg ) and on the other hand on Fabrikstrasse in Kallnach ( Canton of Bern ) on the site of a foundry. In 2014 the facility was closed.

history

In 1999, Rolf Wymann and his son Roger began collecting historic rail vehicles, including above all unique items and representatives of small series. In 2002 it was decided to make the objects accessible to the public. A collection of around one hundred vehicles from different companies and gauges was created . At the end of 2007, the operating family was faced with the situation that the industrial track at Kerzers train station, on which a large part of the exhibits originally stood, was no longer available. An alternative location in Payerne could not be realized. It was not until the summer of 2008 that the family found a partner in the foundry in Kallnach who provided a sufficiently large area with a siding . By September 2008, all vehicles had moved from Kerzers train station to Kallnach.

Since the foundry will need the site itself in the future, it was announced in 2014 that the museum would have to be closed by the end of 2017. The rolling stock was given on permanent loan to museums in Germany and the Czech Republic . As of January 2018, remnants of the collection were still in Kallnach, including the BLS ABDe 4/8 , formerly Oensingen-Balsthal-Bahn .

Exhibits

Among the exhibits is the oldest were tank cars Switzerland, Teak - Dining car WR 402 and 403 of the Oensingen-Balsthal-Bahn ( Orient Express , ex CIWL / SBB , model years 1906/1907) and a Rowanzug the Jungfrau Railway . The museum holdings were only managed and viewed in groups of at least ten people.

Vehicle fleet (selection)

  • HGe 3/3 26 (1914) SLM / MFO / BBC Landilok of the Bernese Oberland Railway (BOB).
  • ABDe 4/8 744 (1945), formerly Oensingen-Balsthal-Bahn (OeBB)
  • Be 4/4 131 (1943) SWS BBC, formerly Chemins de fer fribourgeois Gruyère – Friborg – Morat (GFM)
  • BDt 273 (1948) SWS, formerly Chemins de fer fribourgeois Gruyère – Friborg – Morat (GFM)
  • Ge 6/6 406 (1921), formerly Rhaetian Railway (RhB), now delivered to Germany, is being restored in the Meiningen repair shop.
  • Ta 2/2 (1909) SWS / MFO, formerly Vereinigte Drahtwerke Biel (DT), sold to private in 2017. Has been drawn at the Railway History Association Solothurn-Bern (BVSB) in Egolzwil LU.
  • BDe 4/4 13 (1920), formerly Orbe-Chavornay-Bahn (OC), handed over to the Buckower Kleinbahn in Brandenburg in 2017 .
  • Ce 2/4 13 (1916) formerly Birseckbahn (BEB), handed over to the Boveraclub Liberec in 2017 (permanent loan for 20 years).
  • Xe 2/2 112 (1905) formerly Birseckbahn (BEB), handed over to the Boveraclub Liberec in 2017 (permanent loan for 20 years).
  • Dining car WR 402 and 403 (1906/1907), built by Ringhoffer in Prague and in use for a long time by the SBB, most recently on the Oensingen-Balsthal Railway, transferred to Ústí nad Labem in December 2017 . In the future, it will be used in tourist trains in the German-Czech border area.

gallery

  • Driver's cab of the Rowan locomotive He 2/2 number 6

  • Drive the Rowan locomotive

  • Double motor car ABDe 4/8 No. 244

  • The oldest surviving tank car in Switzerland

Web links

Commons : Railway  Museum Kerzers-Kallnach - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The end of the Berner Zeitung will soon be March 5th, 2014
  2. ^ Off for the open-air railway museum . In: Freiburger Nachrichten . March 6, 2014. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  3. ^ Tram in the garden: The Wymann family and their collecting mania . In: Regional Diagonal Magazin . SRF. December 2, 2017. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Hp. Teutschmann: BMK - Remnants of the Kerzers / Kallnach Railway Museum - Here the ex BLS / OeBB railcar ABDe 4/8 244 parked in Kallnach on January 13, 2018 . In: bahnbilder.de . January 28, 2018. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ Railway Museum Kerzers / Kallnach, opening times ( Memento from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 30, 2010)
  6. ↑ www.bahnmuseum-kerzers.ch Bahnmuseum-Kerzers-Kalnach, our locomotives, BOB 26 ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved February 18, 2014)
  7. ↑ www.gfm-historique.ch Association GFM Historique, Fiche technique: L'automotrice Be 4/4 131 (accessed on January 3, 2014)
  8. ↑ Eisenbahn-Amateur 1 2014, News in Brief, GFM Historic, page 19
  9. ↑ behr / tk: teak dining car to the Czech Republic . In: Swiss Railway Review . No. 2 , 2018, p. 66 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 58 '38.7 "  N , 7 ° 11' 38.4"  E ; CH1903:  581387  /  202958