Tram Museum Dresden

The Dresden Tram Museum is a collection of museum trams that used to be in regular service in the Dresden metropolitan area . Most of them are former vehicles of the Dresden tram . This transport museum is supported by the “Straßenbahnmuseum Dresden e. V. ”, whose members restored and looked after the more than 30 cars in the collection.

Entrance to the Dresden Tram Museum 2009

Excerpt from a ticket for the tram museum

history

Almost 120 years after the commissioning of the first Dresdner horse railway line founded 15 people on 2 June 1992 Straßenbahnhof Mickten the association "Tram Museum Dresden e. V. “, the aim of which is to build the museum. Initially, the collection included 19 vehicles, most of which were in need of restoration and were distributed across various depots in the city.

At the end of 1992 a cooperation agreement was signed with the Dresden transport company and the move to Coswig was completed. On January 17, 1996, another move took place in today's domicile. By the ten-year existence of the association in 2002, the number had grown to 34 vehicles and 110 members.

Location

The museum is located in the northwest of the Saxon state capital Dresden . Like the headquarters of the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe , it is located on the grounds of the Trachenberge depot. This is not in the district of the same name , but a little south of it on Trachenberger Straße. Thus, the depot and museum are located in the Pieschen district and in the statistical district of Pieschen-Nord / Trachenberge . The Historical Motor Vehicles Association of Dresdner Nahverkehr eV has been in the same building since 2011 . V. housed.

With the Railway Museum Bw Dresden-Altstadt , the Transport Museum Dresden and the Museum of the History of the Windberg Railway , there are three other museums in Dresden with rail-bound transport.

collection

MAN railcar 734 and Gotha railcar 1512 in the Tram Museum, 2016

The main part of the museum is made up of running trams that were in use in the Dresden area over the course of the 20th century and are in part considered technical monuments . They are on display at the Tram Museum and also for specials on the DVB - rail network used. Currently (as of April 2014) there are 16 multiple units and 22 sidecars in the collection. Various so-called pike wagons from the 1930s, including the big pike, are ready to drive . The oldest model is a Berolina multiple unit built in 1902 in the workshop of the Trachenberge depot with vehicle number 309, which was used for the opening run on the Plauen basic railway . Part of the collection are also three two-piece Gothawagen coatings of the types ET57 ( setup and bidirectional vehicle ), T4-62 and a three-part ET54 . Several trams from the later GDR era, such as the Tatra T4D and Tatra T6A2 types, are also on display in the museum. Furthermore, former vehicles of the Lockwitztalbahn , the Deuben freight railway and several old work cars were added to the collection. The museum also owns historical validators , stop signs and an old waiting hall . The tram museum is completed by historical writings, plans, drawings, photos and a driving simulator of the Tatra T4D.

Skyscraper on Albertplatz with the "Verkehrsbetriebe" logo

In February 2015, the museum received the “Verkehrsbetriebe” logo for the high-rise building on Albertplatz , which was the administrative headquarters of Dresden's transport company until 1997 when it moved to the Trachenberge depot.

Web links

Commons : Tram Museum Dresden - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

↑ On becoming and growing - club history on historical-kfz-ddvb.de
↑ Dresden Tram Museum: Museum vehicles ( Memento from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
^ Alfred Gey, Reiner Fäthe: The oldest museum tram in Dresden was 100 years old ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Straßenbahnmuseum Dresden e. V., 2001-2005.
Data sheets for historical trams. (PDF; 4.3 MB) DVB AG, accessed on May 17, 2015 .
↑ Holger Frenzel: Museum Ticker 3/15: Tram Museum buys “Verkehrsbetriebe”. Tram Museum Dresden eV, March 2015, accessed on May 17, 2015 .

51.086388888889 13.72925Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 11 " N , 13 ° 43 ′ 45.3" E

[1] On becoming and growing - club history on historical-kfz-ddvb.de

[Fahrzeugbestand-2] Dresden Tram Museum: Museum vehicles ( Memento from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[Berolina_309-3] Alfred Gey, Reiner Fäthe: The oldest museum tram in Dresden was 100 years old ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Straßenbahnmuseum Dresden e. V., 2001-2005.
Data sheets for historical trams. (PDF; 4.3 MB) DVB AG, accessed on May 17, 2015 .

[Verkehrsbetriebe-Schriftzug-4] Holger Frenzel: Museum Ticker 3/15: Tram Museum buys “Verkehrsbetriebe”. Tram Museum Dresden eV, March 2015, accessed on May 17, 2015 .