Rhenish Industrial Railway Museum
The Rheinische Industriebahn-Museum e. V. (RIM) was founded in 1987 in Cologne . The aim of the association is the preservation of industrial rail vehicles and the research and documentation of their history. The club's headquarters have been the former Cologne-Nippes depot since 1992 .
With around 70 locomotives of different gauge (600 mm light rail and standard gauge ) and type of traction, which were used in many different branches of industry from mining to brickworks, the RIM has one of the largest collections of this type in Germany. The focus is on the Deutz locomotives manufactured in Cologne and locomotives from the Arnold Jung locomotive factory in Kirchen- Jungenthal an der Sieg .
Railway depot Cologne-Nippes
The Cologne-Nippes railway depot was built in 1914 by the Cologne Railway Directorate and is one of the last major high-rise rail structures in the Prussian state in the Rhineland . The place name Köln-Nippes is incorrect, as the premises of the depot is in today's Cologne district of Bilderstöckchen on the border with Longerich . However, since the facility belonged to the Nippes marshalling yard , which was built between 1912 and 1914 , it was also called Nippes by the railway authorities .
Prussian steam locomotives were initially stationed at the Nippes depot . In 1936 there were six G 8 locomotives for shunting and 25 other locomotives of this type for handover and route services to Krefeld , Mönchengladbach and Duisburg . During the Second World War , Belgian and French bag locomotives came to the depot; in April 1944 there were 21 such locomotives here. From 1950 freight train steam locomotives were stationed, but diesel-powered locomotives were already available.
After a renovation between 1957 and 1959, the railway depot flourished, as all diesel multiple units from the Cologne depot were stationed here. Over the years, the railcars disappeared, with the shutdown of the VT 36 519, the railcar maintenance in the Nippes depot, and numerous diesel locomotives were stationed again.
In 1975 the then German Federal Railroad ended the stationing of steam locomotives in Cologne; The Cologne-Eifeltor steam locomotive depot was dissolved as an independent service in 1976 and became a branch of the Nippes depot. In 1982, as part of a reorganization, the plant was renamed Cologne 1, in 1984 it was home to 108 diesel locomotives from the 211, 212, 215, 260, 261, 290 series and small locomotives. In 1991 the Nippes depot was closed due to rationalization, the locomotives came to the Deutzer Feld on the right bank of the Rhine .
In 2013 a S-Bahn depot was built on the site. On November 16, 2015, construction began on a new ICE depot , which went into operation on February 23, 2018.
museum
Since 1992, part of the site has been used by the Rheinisches Industriebahn Museum, the “ Friends of Cologne Railway ” and a fire brigade association; The facility is now run by the "Eisenbahn Museum Köln eV"
In 1996, the buildings, tracks, the former coaling system and other parts of the system were placed under monument protection by the Cologne District President , and the museum was able to take over the track systems belonging to the protected property from Deutsche Bahn at the end of 2001 . They are now considered a connecting railway , for which the Federal Railway Operating Regulations no longer apply , but rather the ordinance on the construction and operation of connecting railways of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The RIM exhibition can be viewed once a month on a Sunday.
photos
Western outside area
Henschel DH 440 in the museum
literature
- Frank Glaubitz, Jörg Seidel: Rheinisches Industriebahn-Museum - The vehicles, the collection, the association, ISBN 3-929082-20-9 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 13 ″ N , 6 ° 54 ′ 59 ″ E