Solingen trolleybus museum

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Henschel ÜHIIIs 59 after its restoration
A MAN SL 172 HO, identical to the car 42 owned by the museum
The MAN SG 200 HO of the trolleybus museum

The Obus-Museum Solingen is a registered association , which reconditions discarded vehicles of the Stadtwerke Solingen and makes them accessible to posterity. In addition, materials such as writings and pictures relating to the trolleybus are collected. The museum's holdings range from trolleybuses to decommissioned diesel buses to a trolleybus trailer and a tower car .

The association has around 100 members and is based on the premises of the Solingen public utilities in Solingen-Mitte. He uses storage space there to park the vehicles. The association sees itself as a traveling museum, can only be viewed by prior arrangement and therefore has no regular opening times.

history

The association was founded on July 2nd, 1999 for the purpose of taking over the Solingen trolleybus Henschel ÜHIIIs with the car number 59. In the period that followed, other vehicles were bought up or taken over by the municipal utilities. In cooperation with Stadtwerke and Wilkinson , new models of the Solingen trolley and diesel buses in H0 scale appear on a regular basis . O-Bus 42 runs in school traffic and at peak times for the municipal utilities. First and foremost, this should prevent damage to the stand . With a donation from the Solinger Tageblatt , O-Bus 5 was repainted in its old beige-green paint scheme. Before that, it wore the current SWS design, yellow and blue on a light gray background, and an advertisement for Regionale 2006 . With the help of regional funds, O-Bus 59 was restored. Thanks to the sponsorship of the Solingen company Wüsthof , O-Bus 42 received its DC electrical equipment back.

After years of negotiations, the association finally succeeded in transferring a historic TS 3 from 1973 to the museum's collection after it was sold to the Argentine city ​​of Mendoza in 1989 after it was taken out of service. It was shipped in 2014 and reached Solingen in mid-September of the same year.

In November 2015 the restored trolleybus trailer Orion WH112 was presented to the press. The vehicle was gutted in 2008, the chassis was refurbished and the interior was completed from 2010. The car sponsor is the Solingen cutlery company Emil Schmidt.

In June 2017, the restored trailer was approved for passenger traffic again.

Further negotiations also helped the museum to repatriate a TS 1 vehicle. The former Solingen wagon 10 - ex-Mendoza 80 - was loaded in Mendoza on September 19, 2019, was on the Atlantic from September 29 to its arrival in the port of Hamburg on October 30, and has been in place since the evening hours of November 5 In 2019 again at the depot in Solingen. The vehicle was loaded with numerous spare parts and is to be refurbished as a pure exhibition model without a driving function.

Museum holdings

The museum holdings include the following vehicles:

Wagon number Type First registration Retirement at SWS Status
59 ÜHIIIs 18th December 1959 February 23, 1984 ready for driving
10 TS 1 March 28, 1969 November 28, 1984 turned off, should be worked up optically
68 TS 3 June 7th 1974 5th January 1988 in work-up
42 MAN SL 172 HO December 29, 1986 2008 ready for driving
5 MAN SG 200 HO November 26, 1984 May 7, 2003 in work-up
151 Mercedes-Benz O 305 November 24, 1982 May 9, 2001 ready for driving
6th Orion WH112 1956 Junkyard until 2005 ready for driving
104 MAN -Schörling 13,168 tower car 1981 2002 ready to drive, but not street legal
179 Cable trailer 1956 ready to drive, but not street legal
161 Daimler-Benz O 322 1964 1970s Vehicle is currently not operational (outsourced)
653 Mercedes-Benz O 405 GN2 February 6, 1996 12.2014 in progress (2015–2020 Scholten Reisen, Xanten)

Knight tour

Every year between April and October, the trolleybus museum organizes trips on the second Sunday of the month with the historic ÜHIIIs, which runs through the city according to a fixed timetable. For example, it commutes between the main train station in the Ohligs district, the Wald and Merscheid districts and, with a stopover at the Graf-Wilhelm-Platz bus station, reaches the Burg district, where it is traditionally turned on the trolleybus turntable at the Burg Brücke stop. In 2018 the knight tour was carried out for the first time with the restored Orion WH112 trailer. In May, July and September, the RitterTour leads from Solingen main station via Graf-Wilhelm-Platz back to the main station. The reason for this is the excess length of the team for the turntable in Burg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report of the Solinger Morgenpost from October 20, 2014, accessed on July 20, 2015
  2. ^ Report of the Solinger Morgenpost from November 11, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2015
  3. ↑ https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/solingen/deutschland-premiere-fuer-obus-anhaenger_aid-21102311
  4. ↑ Vehicle overview on obus-museum-solingen.de , accessed on July 17, 2015