Line D - Working Group on Historical Local Transport Düsseldorf
| Line D - Working Group on Historical Local Transport Düsseldorf e. V. | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Dusseldorf |
| Web presence | www.linied.net |
| Reference year | 2019 |
| Board | Hans Männel Julian Zimmermann Alexander Schmitz David Zieren Fabian Mundt |
| Lines | |
| Gauge | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| tram | no passenger service |
| Light rail | no passenger service |
| bus | no passenger service |
| number of vehicles | |
| Tram cars | 1 railcar 1 sidecar (owned) |
| Omnibuses | 2 (owned) |
| other vehicles | 6 (owned) |
The association Linie D - Arbeitsgemeinschaft historical Nahverkehr Düsseldorf e. V. was founded in 1992 with the aim of documenting the history and diversity of transport companies and manufacturing companies in the Düsseldorf region and preserving them for the public.
background
The precisely defined goals are:
- the research, collection, processing, archiving and indexing of all kinds of materials on the history of local public transport in Düsseldorf , the neighboring cities and communities in accordance with the operating area of Rheinbahn AG
- creating and displaying documents, issuing publications and organizing exhibitions,
- the acquisition of own vehicles,
- the restoration and maintenance of historic vehicles,
- the construction of models and the establishment of model systems for the presentation of historical local transport in Düsseldorf ,
- the construction of a local transport museum, in which the vehicles and documents can be permanently exhibited and maintained, combined with regular use of the vehicles in the rail network of Rheinbahn AG
- maintaining contacts and working with similar institutions in other cities to fulfill the purpose of the association.
The members are involved in the working groups vehicle maintenance, archive / documentation and model making.
Another field of activity are regular city tours with historical vehicles in cooperation with Rheinbahn AG , for which "Line D" provides drivers, train attendants and city explorers.
The club's name is based on the tradition of using letters to designate long-distance lines from Düsseldorf . Line "D" used to be the line to Duisburg ( Düsseldorf-Duisburger Kleinbahn , today U79 ). The "D" is also a common abbreviation for Düsseldorf.
Web links
- www.linied.net - Official website of the Line D - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Historischer Nahverkehr Düsseldorf e. V.