Jünkerath Railway Museum
The Jünkerath Railway Museum in Jünkerath in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate , founded in 2008, is operated by the Eisenbahnfreunde Jünkerath eV association.
Jünkerath was a railway junction of the Eifel line Cologne - Trier and the branch lines Dümpelfeld - Lissendorf and Jünkerath - Losheim - Weywertz . The place was strongly influenced by the Jünkerath depot, which was closed in 1966 and which housed numerous series in the steam locomotive era, especially the 39 series .
The museum shows exhibits from over 140 years of railway history with a regional focus on the Eifel. The spectrum ranges from a large pig iron ladle car from the Jünkerath trade union and a driving axle of the steam locomotive 44 1211 to small everyday railway items such as lamps, tools, signals, telephones, Morse code devices, service regulations or train route signs .
The museum has a collection of over 100 railway service hats from several epochs of German railway history. A rarity is a plan archive in which there are several hundred historical plans for various sections of disused and still existing railway lines, in particular from the Bitburg-Prüm , Vulkaneifel , Euskirchen and Ahrweiler districts, including route and superstructure plans as well as drafts of railway structures and engineering structures ( Tunnel).
See also
literature
- Eisenbahnfreunde Jünkerath eV (Ed.): Wolfgang Kreckler, Eisenbahngeschichte des Ort Jünkerath , Trier 1995.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 24.9 " N , 6 ° 35 ′ 14.5" E