Radebeul traditional railway

Train of the Traditionsbahn Radebeul eV on a special trip near Bärnsdorf (2016)

Train of the Traditionsbahn Radebeul eV in Friedewald Bad (2007)

The Traditionsbahn Radebeul e. V. (TRR) is an association of railway enthusiasts based in Radebeul , Saxony . It was the first organized association in what was then the GDR that was dedicated to the operational and museum preservation of historic narrow-gauge railway vehicles. He has been the operator of the traditional trains on the Radebeul Ost – Radeburg narrow-gauge railway since 1974 .

history

The museum wagons of the Dresden Transport Museum at Radebeul Ost train station maintained by the association (2008)

The seat of the association was the historic goods floor at Radebeul Ost train station until 2017

Today's Radebeul e. V. in a group of railway enthusiasts who began collecting and processing the last remaining two-axle Saxon narrow-gauge wagons in 1967. These wagons intended for retirement had been transferred to Radebeul Ost by an employee of the wagon management department of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in order to ensure that they were preserved in a museum. The Dresden Transport Museum added these vehicles to its museum holdings and they were presented to the public for the first time in June 1968.

The railway friends finally organized themselves in a working group of the German Model Railway Association (DMV). A great success for the railway enthusiasts were the traditional journeys introduced on August 10, 1974 with the last remaining passenger coaches of the Saxon narrow-gauge railways . This was the first time there was a regular museum train service on the territory of the GDR, which from then on enjoyed great popularity.

In order to continue to ensure the traditional operation, AG 3/58 "Traditionsbahn Radebeul-Radeburg" of the DMV was founded on December 19, 1974. The vehicles used for the traditional operation remained in the DR company park, which also had any repairs and general inspections carried out. The inoperable museum vehicles set up at Radebeul Ost train station, however, were still part of the Dresden Transport Museum's inventory.

A completely new situation only arose after the political change in eastern Germany in 1989 . If the traditional trains had been well used so far, there has now been a rapid drop in passenger numbers. The working group broke away from the DMV and founded a registered association in 1990. In the 1990s, the association also tried to take over the vehicles used in the traditional business. In 1993, two locomotives were borrowed from the DR to replace the exhibits that had been sold, so that they could be placed in front of the museum train on Ladestrasse. A diesel locomotive, required for shunting operations, came from the Schmiedeberg foundry's connecting line as the first operational machine owned by the association.

In November 1993 the association hosted the first annual meeting of the Association of German Museum and Touristic Railways (VDMT).

The transport policy of Deutsche Bahn (successor to the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1994) as the owner of the Radebeul Ost – Radeburg line is not geared towards continuing to operate the narrow-gauge railways in Germany. It was therefore necessary to found an independent railway company (EVU) in 1997 . In 2000, some of the vehicles previously used in the traditional company were finally taken over. Seven passenger cars and a few freight cars as well as three steam locomotives have been owned by the Traditionsbahn Radebeul eV since then. This basic inventory was finally supplemented by further new acquisitions.

Since 2009, the traditional Radebeul railway, as the operating railway company, has been responsible for the rebuilt facilities at Wilsdruff station .

In 2015 the 50th anniversary of the traditional company was celebrated with a festival weekend. In addition to the vehicles of the association, numerous vehicles from the IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff and the museum train from the Dresden Transport Museum were used. The highlight was the simultaneous use of both steam locomotives of the traditional railway association, before the IV K No. 176 had to be shut down due to the expiry of the statutory operating periods.

Until the termination of the long-term rental agreement in 2017, the association was based in the former goods handling facility at Radebeul Ost station. Today the office is located on the site of the former Niederlößnitz power station , where a workshop for car repairs is also available.

vehicles

Locomotives
No.	Series / type	Manufacturer	Construction year	comment	photo
99 539	Saxon IV K	Saxon machine factory , Chemnitz	1899	almost in the delivery condition as IV K 132, operational
99 586	Saxon IV K	Saxon machine factory , Chemnitz	1912	almost in delivery condition as IV K 176, not operational (deadline 11/29/2015)
99 791	DR series 99.77–79	VEB Lokomotivbau Karl Marx Babelsberg	1957	in the last operational state, not operational
1	LKM V10C	VEB Lokomotivbau Karl Marx Babelsberg	1957	Acquired in 1993 by DKK Niederschmiedeberg, operational

Passenger coaches
No.	genus	Manufacturer	Construction year	comment	photo
975-103	KPw	Workshops of the K.Sächs.Sts.EB	1896	in delivery condition set as 1492K, operational
971-251	KB	Workshops of the K.Sächs.Sts.EB	1894	Refurbished by the IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff until 2015 in the delivery condition as 235K, employed in the EVU of the traditional railway and occasionally employed in special trains, property of IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff
970-302	KB4	Workshops of the K.Sächs.Sts.EB	1899	in delivery condition set as 286K, operational
970-309	KB4	Workshops of the K.Sächs.Sts.EB	1900	in delivery condition set as 325K, operational
970-316	KB4	Workshops of the K.Sächs.Sts.EB	1901	in delivery condition set as 343K, operational
970-237	KB4	Busch, Bautzen	1912	in delivery condition set as 435K, operational
970-269	KB4trp	Busch, Bautzen	1914	in the last operating condition, externally labeled as K1163 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, not operational, currently being processed (see also report on the website )
974-355	KPw4	Werdau wagon factory	1926	in the last operating state, not operational
974-354	KPw4	Werdau wagon factory	1927	in delivery condition set as K1753, operational
970-006	KA4	Linke-Hofmann-Busch , Bautzen	1930	in delivery condition set as K26, operational
970-459	KB4	Linke-Hofmann-Busch , Bautzen	1932	Property of the Dresden Transport Museum , club car of the association, not operational

Freight wagons
No.	genus	Manufacturer	Construction year	comment	photo
97-13-68	GGw	Werdau wagon factory	1910	in delivery condition set as 2114K, operational
97-13-06	GGw	Bautzen	1912	inoperable
97-21-15	OO	Busch , Bautzen	1913	Property of the Dresden Transport Museum , as of 1949 as 7.7214, operational
97-09-85	GGw	Busch , Bautzen	1916	Workshop trolley of the TRR eV, in the last state of use as an equipment trolley, not operational
97-13-06	GGwhEl	Werdau wagon factory	1918	in delivery condition set as 2361K, not operational
97-13-61	GGwhEl	Werdau wagon factory	1918	as it was in the 1950s, operational, handed over to the Schönheide Museum Railway
97-25-20	HH	Zwickau	1926	in the last operational state, not operational
97-25-52	HH	Zwickau	1926	in the state of the 1950s, operational
97-25-53	HH	Zwickau	1926	in the last state of use, operational
97-14-19	GGw	Linke-Hofmann-Busch , Werdau	1929	in the last operational state, not operational	-
97-12-48	GGw	Linke-Hofmann-Busch , Werdau	1929	Property Dresden Transport Museum , set in the delivery condition as K3447, operative