Zubrnice Railway Museum
The Railway Museum Zubrnice is a railway museum in Zubrnice in the Central Bohemian Mountains in the Czech Republic . On the site of the former Saubernitz-Tünscht train station of the Großpriesen – Wernstadt – Auscha local railway, historical local railway vehicles , safety technology and an extensive collection of trolleys are on display.
history
The museum has its origins in the idea of creating a touristic shuttle service to the Museum of Folk Architecture of the Central Bohemian Uplands, which was being built at the time. In 1988 the section Velké Březno –Zubrnice of the local railway Großpriesen – Wernstadt – Auscha, which was closed in 1978, was declared a museum railway. In 1993, individual special trips were carried out with the 423.009 locomotive with great participation by the population. Since 2016, the Usti District has financed tourist traffic on weekends and public holidays from spring to autumn.
It was not until 1996 that today's Railway Museum was built on the site of the railway station in Zubrnice, which was put into practice with a considerable collection of trolleys on the station site.
Since October 2010, the section from Velké Březno to Zubrnice of the former Großpriesen – Wernstadt – Auscha local railway has served as a feeder for the museum. For this, visitors from the Elbe Valley to Zubrnice are offered the challenging route with a 40 ‰ gradient. The operator of the museum owns a considerable number of operational “Hurvinek” railcars, with which he has recently carried out several special trips across the country. The driving days can be found on the website of the museum operator. In total, there are still tracks from Zubrnice to Lovečkovice . To what extent this section should be reactivated remains to be seen.
The museum is open from May to September every day except Mondays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., in April and October from Friday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Due to its location near the border, the museum is also easy to reach for visitors from Germany. We also recommend a visit to the Museum of Folk Architecture in Zubrnice. Moreover, the wider area also has hiking trails, hiking destinations are especially the mountain Buková hora ( zinc stone ) with the striking television stations and the natural monument Magnetovec with the stone mushroom Hřib Skalní .
Exhibits (selection)
Some of the vehicles, such as a French shunting locomotive from 1916 and all the draisines, are stored in the railway museum. The majority of the vehicles are, however, parked in the former depot in Lovosice , weatherproof .
Steam locomotives
- 433,015 , currently inoperable
- A 920 steam storage locomotive
Diesel locomotives
- T 444.0255 , locomotive for mixed service, not operational
- T 211.2010 , locomotive for shunting service, operational
Railcar
- M 131.1009, 012, 013, 145, 179, 391, 280 , Hurvínek diesel multiple unit
dare
The Zubrnice Railway Museum has several, some of them very valuable, passenger and freight cars. A detailed list can be found on the museum's website.
Other sights
In addition to the draisines, other commercial vehicles are also parked in the station. A model railway exhibition on a scale of 1:45 is set up above Levín station. In addition, the safety technology of the individual railway stations of the former Großpriesen – Wernstadt – Auscha local railway is presented in a separate room.
In addition, the Friends of the Railways took Zubrnice in recent years with their roadworthy vehicles plenty of excursions to railway celebrations, they led shuttle rides to the fair in Úštěk by, they were on special trips to the Museum in Křimov , they introduced special trips on the occasion of the town festival "100 Years of Tanvald ”, so that the museum and its association are now well known across the country.
literature
- Eisenbahnkurier 07/2006 - Focus abroad
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stáhnu si informační leták: Informační letáky: Ústecký kraj. Retrieved March 19, 2017 (Czech).
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 0.5 ″ N , 14 ° 13 ′ 7.7 ″ E