Museum station

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Railway stations that are part of a railway museum as a separate exhibit for historical railway operations or as functional buildings are referred to as museum stations . These are usually buildings, but also track systems that were formerly used for rail traffic or are still used to operate a museum railway . In some cases, however, buildings are also being rededicated for this purpose.

The term is a compound from the words museum and train station . In contrast to museums or art exhibitions in the former station buildings Station Museum or Kunstbahnhof called.

Well-known museum stations

Individual evidence

  1. Development of the Seebrugg Museum Station. IG 3-Seenbahn eV, accessed on February 25, 2017 .
  2. ^ Museum train station. Cologne-Bonner Eisenbahn-Freunde eV, accessed on February 25, 2017 .
  3. ^ Museum station Brühl - Vochem. (No longer available online.) City of Brühl, archived from the original on February 25, 2017 ; Retrieved February 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bruehl.de
  4. Museum station "Anlage Mitte". Company for the operation of the forest railway Muskau mbH, accessed on February 25, 2017 .
  5. Schönberg Museum Station. Ostsee.de, accessed on March 2, 2017 .