German Railway Association

German Railway Association V.
Basic information
Company headquarters	Bruchhausen-Vilsen
Web presence	German Railway Association
Board	Wolf-Jobst Siedler (Chairman) Dirk Lonscher (Deputy Chairman) Gunther Meckmann (Deputy Chairman)
Operations management	Eckard Thurau (EBl)
Lines
Gauge	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
railroad	1
number of vehicles
Locomotives	14th
Railcar	9
statistics
Stops	8th
Length of line network
Railway lines	7.8
Operating facilities
Depots	1
Switches	31

Bruchhausen-Vilsen-Asendorf
Route map of the museum route (2010)
Course book section (DB) :	12383
Route length:	7.8 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Top speed:	20 km / h
Legend 0.0 Bruchhausen-Vilsen Community station with VGH 0.9 Vilsen-Ort (formerly fish ponds ) 1.4 Wiehe-Kurpark 2.3 Vilser wood 3.9 Heiligenberg 4.6 Klosterheide 6.1 Working 7.8 Asendorf terminus

The German Railway Association e. V. ( DEV ) is an association based in Bruchhausen-Vilsen , whose goal is to keep a small railway and all of its facilities in working order as a living open-air museum . The Lower Saxony Small Railway Museum Bruchhausen-Vilsen has been part of the Route of Industrial Culture in the northwest since 2010 .

history

The German Railway Association e. V. (DEV) was founded in November 1964 as the "Deutscher Kleinbahn-Verein" (German Small Railway Association) with the aim of maintaining a small railway in an operational state. After two initial efforts at the Alt-Rahlstedt-Volksdorf-Wohldorf and the Steinhuder Meer-Bahn failed due to political circumstances, the still narrow-gauge section Bruchhausen-Vilsen-Heiligenberg was operated by the Grafschaft Hoya transport company , approx. 35 km south of Bremen , more luck. On July 2, 1966, the museum railroad was started with the steam locomotive "Bruchhausen" and a car. Apart from a few short-lived attempts, this was Germany's first museum railway. The whole route to Asendorf has been used since 1970.

In the meantime, the "Lower Saxony Small Railroad Museum" has developed from this. This includes the line that has been in operation since 1899, with its typical small-rail route and superstructure and the buildings that have been preserved (reception building, bus shelter, goods shed, locomotive shed). On weekends from May to September and in December, the Bruchhausen-Vilsen- Asendorf route is operated according to the schedule - mainly with steam trains. A feeder traffic on the Eystrup - Hoya - Bruchhausen - Vilsen - Syke route is also operated under the name "Hoyaer Eisenbahn" . At Bruchhausen-Vilsen train station, regular-gauge vehicles can be transferred to the narrow-gauge line using trolleys or trolleys .

In the workshop belonging to the museum, dying work techniques, such as the riveting of steam (locomotive) boilers, and the necessary tools are preserved. The operation and maintenance of vehicles and systems is largely done on a voluntary basis .

vehicles

In 2012, the vehicle collection comprised more than 100 meter and standard gauge vehicles built between 1886 and 1964, most of which were operational. Most of the vehicles are sheltered in several halls in Bruchhausen-Vilsen and Heiligenberg and can be viewed on operating days.

The meter gauge vehicles include seven steam locomotives (including the Hoya locomotive , which has been operating on this route since 1899 , the former DR 99 5633 , a Lenz Type i , a box steam locomotive from the Plettenberger Kleinbahn and a Mallet locomotive ), five diesel locomotives (including a locomotive from the former DB - Series V 29 and a diesel-electric locomotive of the Borkumer Kleinbahn ), six railcars (including a Wismar rail bus , a Wismar rail car type Frankfurt , a rail car of the Franzburger Kreisbahn and a Talbot rail car type Eifel ), 26 passenger cars, six pack and post cars and numerous freight cars and railway service vehicles.

The vehicle collection enables typical trains of the Franzburger Kreisbahnen - with Görlitzer weight brake -, the Altenaer Eisenbahn and the Kleinbahn Hoya – Syke – Asendorf to be put into operation and to run with restored equipment.

The club also owns a number of standard gauge vehicles that run regularly on the Eystrup – Syke standard gauge line, including a former V 36 , a Köf III , an Esslingen railcar with sidecar and a MaK GDT . The last cattle shed to survive in Germany is also part of the collection.

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The narrow-gauge railway of the German Railway Association (DEV)

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  Bruchhausen-Vilsen station with T2 railcars

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  T 44 railcar with car 2 at Bruchhausen-Vilsen station

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  Lok Bruchhausen, identical in construction to Lok Hoya

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  Plettenberg tram locomotive

literature

• The Museum Railway - magazine for small railway history is the official organ of the German Railway Association e. V. (DEV). ISSN  0936-4609
• Claas Rehmstedt: The vehicles of the museum railway Bruchhausen-Vilsen-Asendorf . Verlag Feld- und Schmalspurbahnen Karl Paskarb, Celle 2005. ISBN 3-938278-09-9
• Wolfram Bäumer: Overland at 20 km / h . Photo guide through the Kleinbahn Museum Bruchhausen-Vilsen . DEV-Kleinbahn-Verlag, Bruchhausen-Vilsen 1995. ISBN 3-9802233-9-6

Movie

• Susanne Mayer-Hagmann: By train through… Weserland. Germany's first museum railway was founded in 1964 in Bruchhausen-Vilsen in Lower Saxony. ARTE GEIE / SWR, Germany, 2007, 43 min. This film is the long version of the Eisenbahn-Romantik episode 649 from SWR with the title: Pioneer on the narrow gauge - Germany's oldest museum railway.

Web links

Commons : Museumseisenbahn Bruchhausen-Vilsen-Asendorf  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• museumseisenbahn.de - DEV website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Metropolitan Region Bremen-Oldenburg e. V .: Route of industrial culture in the northwest. Station 14: Lower Saxony Small Railway Museum Bruchhausen-Vilsen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.