Minden Museum Railway
The Museums-Eisenbahn Minden (MEM) is a railway association that operates tourist traffic with restored trains on routes of the Mindener Kreisbahnen and the Verkehrsgesellschaft Landkreis Osnabrück . In the summer months there is a timetable. On special occasions, MEM trains are also used on routes operated by other railway companies.
History of the Minden Museum Railway
In 1977 the Minden Museum Railway Association (MEM) was founded from the Minden and Preussisch Oldendorfer working groups of the Weserbergland Steam Railway (DEW), which organized special trips with historic vehicles on the WKB and MKB routes from 1974. The aim was to preserve historic railway vehicles and show them in operation. Soon the first museum train with a diesel locomotive was sent on the line. There is a vehicle hall each at the two locations in Minden and Preußisch Oldendorf . From 1991 to 2002 the Rahden – Uchte route was also used before the group there separated from the MEM and renamed the Rahden-Uchte e. V. became independent. Some of the vehicles used there became the property of the new club.
stretch
The first activities were developed from Minden Stadt train station before the move to Minden Oberstadt train station . Here the routes to Uchte and Hille forked, in the other direction over the Weser you could drive to Kleinenbremen to the visitor mine. Since the end of 2015, the route to Kleinenbremen has been closed due to its poor condition and can only be used up to Nammen. This has now been lifted, since 2018 there have been trips to Kleinenbremen again and there a combination option with the visitor mine.
vehicles
The first steam locomotive from DEW came to MEM as early as the founding year, the "Mevissen 4". In the following years the number of steam locomotives was continuously expanded, so in the same year the steam locomotives "Alice Heye" and the Prussian T 13 "Stettin 7906" (formerly 92 638) from VEB Erfurter Industriebahn were added. In 1981 the steam locomotive 89 6237 was acquired, in 1991 the steam locomotive 86 744 followed and since 2000 the T 11 "Hannover 7512" has been steaming in front of the Prussian train of the MEM.
MEM currently has five steam locomotives (one operational), six diesel locomotives (four operational) and two railcars (one operational).
There are also around 20 passenger cars that are used as a Prussian train with former Prussian branch cars on the Minden routes and as a small train with former small railroad cars on the Wittlager route.
There are also some freight cars.
| Locomotive number (MEM) | design type | Manufacturer / year of construction | With MEM since | Location | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steam locomotives: | ||||||
| 7512 HANNOVER ( pr.T 11 ) | 1'C n2t | UNION, Koenigsberg 1908 | 2000 | parked in Minden | ||
| 7906 STETTIN ( pr. T 13 ) | D n2t | UNION, Koenigsberg 1912 | 1977 | parked in Minden | ||
| 7348 KATTOWITZ ( pr.T 9.3 ) | 1'C n2t | Hohenzollern , Düsseldorf 1907 | 2004 | in reconstruction for Minden | ||
| 86 744 | 1'D1 'h2t | Orenstein & Koppel , Berlin 1942 | 1991 | Sold | ||
| 89 6237 | C n2t | Linke-Hofmann , Breslau 1924 | 1981 | parked in Pr. Oldendorf | ||
| Mevissen 4 | C h2t | Krupp , Essen 1952 | 1977 | 2017 sold to LWL-Industriemuseum for Zeche Zollern | ||
| Alice Heye | B n2t | Hohenzollern, Düsseldorf 1910 | 1977 | parked in Pr. Oldendorf | ||
| Diesel locomotives: | ||||||
| DL 2 | Axis arrangement C | MaK , Kiel 1958 | 1997 | operational, Pr. Oldendorf | ||
| V 3 | Wheel arrangement B | Windhoff , Rheine 1946 | 1988 | operational, Minden | ||
| V 4 | Wheel arrangement B | Jung , Jungenthal 1934 | 1994 | operational, Pr. Oldendorf | ||
| V 5 | Wheel arrangement B | Deutz , Cologne 1936 | 1977 | in work-up, Minden | ||
| Shunting tractor 1 | Wheel arrangement B | Windhoff, Rheine 1938 | 1984 | operational, Minden | ||
| Breuer locomotive engine | Wheel arrangement B | Breuer, Frankfurt 1954 | 1999 | in work-up, Minden | ||
| Diesel railcar: | ||||||
| T 1 | Axis arrangement A1 | Wismar wagon factory in 1933 | 1978 | operational, Pr. Oldendorf | ||
| T 2 | Axis arrangement A1 | Waggon construction Dessau 1937 | 2014 | operational, Minden | ||
| T 5 | Axis arrangement A1 | Wismar wagon factory in 1934 | 2014 | parked, Pr. Oldendorf, owner: Preußisch Oldendorfer Kleinbahn-Museum | ||
Clock of the museum railway in Minden-Oberstadt station
MEM locomotives and wagons in front of the vehicle hall in Minden-Oberstadt station
The MEM steam locomotive T11 "Hannover 7512" catching water in the Minden-Oberstadt station
See also
literature
- Ingrid Schütte, Werner Schütte: The Mindener Kreisbahnen . 2nd edition, Uhle & Kleimann, Lübbecke 1990, pp. 268-269, ISBN 3-922657-77-X .
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 6: North Rhine-Westphalia. Northeastern part . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-88255-664-1 , p. 23 .
- Building and Art Monuments of Westphalia, Volume 50: City of Minden , edited by Fred Kaspar and Ulf Dietrich Korn, Part V: Minden outside the city walls , Part volume 2, pp. 1721–1744, Ed. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Klartext Verlag, Essen 1998 , ISBN 3-88474-635-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Westfälische: Museums Eisenbahn no longer steams to Kleinenbremen. Accessed on March 13, 2017, edition of January 4, 2016
- ↑ Mindener Museumeisenbahn: New: 2018 again to Kleinenbremen , accessed on April 7, 2018.