Museum Buurtspoorweg

Museum Buurtspoorweg
7853 steam locomotive with a passenger train
Route length:	7.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Haaksbergen – Boekelo
Legend from Groenlo 22.7 Haaksbergen (Hbg) 25.8 Stepelo loading point (since 2001) 26.4 Hagmolenbeek 27.1 Koninklijke Nederlandse Zoutindustrie ( Anst , 1919–1958) 27.8 Zoutindustrie (Zie) 28.8 Boekelerbeek 29.5 Boekelo (Bko) 29.6 Texoprint (Anst, until 2002) 30.0 Teesinkbeek Northern end of the route since the A35 was built (1975) A35 Usselo Twekkelo Enschede Rembrandtlaan to Enschede Noord / Zuid today's southern end of the route AkzoNobel (Anst) Twentekanaal Hengelosche Bad- en Zweminrichting Connection to the Zutphen – Glanerbeek railway line 36.0 Hengelo GOLS

The Stichting Museum Buurtspoorweg (MBS) operates a museum railway between Haaksbergen and Boekelo in the Netherlands . The association was founded in 1967 and since June 23, 1989 has been the first railway company besides NS to have a railway concession.

history

A group of tram enthusiasts founded the Comité Vrienden van het Trammuseum (CvTM) in 1964. After the suspension of passenger traffic on the Ahaus-Enscheder Railway (AEE) line, the CvTM acquired its first vehicle in 1966 with its T 10 railcar. The siding of the former gasworks at the AEE terminus in Enschede Zuid was used for accommodation. In the following year the CvTM was converted into a foundation and renamed the “Stichting Museum Buurtspoorweg”. It was planned to set up a museum line on the AEE line from Enschede to the state border at Broekheurne , which was closed in the same year , in order to maintain the local branch line atmosphere . In the following years, other small and branch line vehicles , mainly from Germany, were taken over, including a steam locomotive and a Wismar rail bus from the Delmenhorst-Harpstedter Eisenbahn . From May 10, 1969, these vehicles made individual journeys on the section between Enschede and Broekheurne. However, the route was finally shut down and canceled by the new owner NS in 1970.

Since then, the MBS's museum trips have been running on the local railway, built by GOLS in 1884/85 , between the Enschede Noord and Haaksbergen stations. The route was used regularly from 1971; Until 1973 the goods traffic of the NS ran parallel here. The operational center of the museum railway was gradually moved from Enschede to Haaksbergen.

With the construction of the A35 motorway in 1974, the route between Boekelo and Usselo was interrupted. Since then, the museum trains have been running on the remnant section between Haaksbergen and Boekelo, which is no longer connected to the Nazi network.

The Haaksbergen station building

The Haaksbergen station was gradually expanded in the following years and turned into a local railway museum ; In addition to the restoration of the reception building from 1884, the locomotive shed and workshop were built, the track system was greatly expanded (including a turntable acquired from Goor ) and a water tower was built according to old plans. In Boekelo, the corrugated iron hall originally set up to accommodate the vehicles was replaced by an exhibition building and other items from the historic railway operations such as a bell were installed. A drilling tower for salt extraction is a reminder of the history of the place, and a train station was built a few kilometers south on the former site of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Zoutindustrie (Royal Netherlands Salt Industry). The loading point at Stepelo is a completely new building, reminiscent of earlier similarly designed loading points along the local railways.

future

Plans had been in place to extend the railway line from Boekelo in the direction of Hengelo since the 1990s . This is also a former GOLS line, but it was dismantled during the Second World War. However, part of the line in the urban area of ​​Hengelo is still in operation as a siding , which is why only a relatively short new line would have to be built in addition to the necessary bridge over the A35. Due to a lack of finances and protests from residents, the project is not being pursued any further.

Picture gallery

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  Steam locomotive 2

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  Steam locomotive 7853 moving in Boekelo

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  Steam locomotive 4 in Haaksbergen station

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  Steam locomotive 5 - TWE 152 (ELNA 5) in Boekelo

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  Steam locomotive 6 in front of the Haaksbergen engine shed

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  Diesel locomotive 451 with freight train

literature

• Gijs Brefeld, Ben Heerink, Jeroen Lieverdink and Martijn Thush (eds.): Stichting Museum Buurtspoorweg, Museum Gids . Haaksbergen 2001
• Evert Heusinkveld, Ludger Kenning: AAE. Ahaus-Alstätter Railway . Sideway documentation, Volume 7. Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn 1993, pp. 34f., ISBN 3-927587-16-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. on this: Evert Heusinkveld, Ludger Kenning: AAE. Ahaus-Alstätter Railway . Branch line documentation, p. 34f
2. ↑ Guus Ferree: German veterans in the Dutch exile . In: railway magazine . No. 9 , 2017, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 52 .

Web links

Commons : Museum Buurtspoorweg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the MBS

Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 30.7 "  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 21.7"  E