Danish Railway Museum
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The Danish Railway Museum ( Danish Danmarks Jernbanemuseum ) is located in Odense . It is the largest railway museum in Scandinavia with an exhibition area of 10,000 m². The museum is organized as a foundation .
Geographical location
The museum is housed in the former depot of the DSB just north of the main train station in Odense, Dannebrogsgade . Here it uses a roundhouse with ancillary buildings and a large outdoor area as an outdoor facility. The Railway Museum also has locations in Copenhagen, at the DSB headquarters, and in Randers (since 2014).
history
The museum was created from a collection of objects that DSB employees had already kept in the years before 1900. In 1904 A. L. Ohmeyer began to collect comprehensive pictures, photographs, books and other documents on the Danish railways and made them publicly available in 1915 at the Industrial Association in Copenhagen . From the budget year 1918/19, a small amount for a railway museum was included in the budget law as part of the funds for the DSB. The Danish Railway Museum therefore does not have an exact year of foundation. From 1931 the museum was housed in the attic of the DSB headquarters in the Sølvgade barracks in Copenhagen. It was only from this year that historical vehicles began to be collected. The first was the Gamle Ole (B 45) shunting engine from 1869, built for Jysk-Fyenske Jernbaner . Other vehicles were added. Since these could not be accommodated in the attic of the main railway administration, they first had to be placed across the country in various locomotive sheds .
From 1965 the idea matured to use the large roundhouse of the railway depot in Odense as a location for the museum, which was only built in 1954 for the DSB and the North Funen private railways . The museum took over part of it in 1975, another part from 1988 and finally completely in the following years.
exhibition
Roundhouse
The roundhouse has 21 tracks, 19 of which are used to display vehicles and two of which serve the museum's own workshop. About 50 locomotives and railroad cars from all epochs of Danish railway history are on display. These include the oldest surviving locomotive in Denmark, H 40, from 1868, a class E steam locomotive from 1950, the largest steam locomotive ever made in Denmark, a class MY (II) diesel locomotive , a wagon of a S-Bahn train from Copenhagen from the 1930s and a type MA express railcar from the 1950s. A replica of the first steam locomotive, Odin , from 1846, which ran on the Copenhagen – Roskilde route , is also shown.
Several saloon cars of the Danish royal family are on display on tracks 13-15. These are in detail:
- Schleswig king carriage from 1854 for King Frederik VII.
- Salon car S 1 from 1871 for King Christian IX.
- S 8 saloon car , also for King Christian IX, King Friedrich VIII and King Christian X.
- Salon car S 1 , for King Christian X., King Frederik IX. and Queen Margrethe II.
The first double-decker passenger cars used in the capital at the end of the 19th century can also be seen .
An extensive collection shows numerous models of rail ferries from all eras. In the exhibition segment “compartment of dreams”, international train journeys from Denmark to the south in the 1970s are presented: on the one hand, the journey in the sleeping car of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CWL), on the other hand by Interrail .
In the gallery in the roundhouse, individual themes are presented in their historical dimensions from 1847 to 1997. The crossings of the Great and Little Belt , safety and rail accidents take up a lot of space .
Outdoor area
In the "Dronning Louises Station" ( Queen Louise Railway Station ), an area designed as a platform with a roof, historical vehicles are exhibited alternately. From here, during the school holidays, a shuttle train hauled by a steam locomotive travels on a short section of track in the open-air site. In the outdoor area there is also a fully functional water crane and a coaling system to supply the steam locomotives.
Library / archive
There is also a library with specialist literature on railways at home and abroad as well as an extensive collection of timetables . These are only accessible by prior agreement.
Dealing with museum holdings
According to more recent plans of the museum, half of the approximately 300 historical railway vehicles stored are to be scrapped for cost reasons, including the R 946 . It is to be used as a spare parts dispenser for the R 963 three-cylinder locomotive built in Denmark . In addition, only the most important vehicles from each era should remain in the museum's collection. The maintenance of every existing series should be refrained from. The vehicles scrapped or otherwise handed in by 2019 are listed in a letter from the museum.
Worth knowing
Almost all of the labels and explanations for the exhibits are in three languages: Danish , English and German .
In summer, a garden railway does its laps in the open-air area. In winter, their vehicles can commute on a short section of track in the roundhouse. The museum also maintains a museum train for trips on the DSB network.
literature
- Danmarks Jernbanemuseum: Welcome to the Danish Railway Museum . [Guide booklet]. OO, no year [2019].
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Danmarks Jernbanemuseum: Willkommen , p. [2]
- ↑ Danmarks Jernbanemuseum: Willkommen , p. [2f]
- ↑ Danmarks Jernbanemuseum: Willkommen , p. [4f]
- ↑ Danmarks Jernbanemuseum: Willkommen , p. [3]
- ↑ Danmarks Jernbanemuseum: Willkommen , p. [4]
- ↑ a b c Danmarks Jernbanemuseum: Willkommen , p. [7]
- ↑ Danmarks Jernbanemuseum: Willkommen , p. [6]
- ↑ Danmarks Jernbanemuseum: Willkommen , p. [8]
- ^ Sune Jørgensen: Historiske jernbanetog shall scraps: - Det er synd. In: TV 2 / Fyn. December 3, 2017, accessed October 30, 2018 (Danish).
- ↑ Udskilt 2013–2018: 140 enheder. (PDF) In: jernbanemuseet.dk. Retrieved October 16, 2019 (Danish, (list is available)).
- ↑ Danmarks Jernbanemuseum: Willkommen , pp. [4, 5, 8]