Association of traffic amateurs and museum railways

Association of traffic amateurs and museum railways V.
purpose	non-profit
Chair:	Harald Elsner
Establishment date:	November 30, 1958
Seat :	Hamburg
Website:	https://www.vvm-museumsbahn.de/

The Association of Traffic Amateurs and Museum Railways eV is a Hamburg association of rail and local transport friends.

MaK GDT of the Kiel-Schönberger Eisenbahn
in March 1974

history

This association was founded on November 30, 1958 under the name "Kleinbahn-Verein Wohldorf". The association tried in vain to set up a museum on the remaining stretch of the Alt-Rahlstedt-Volksdorf-Wohldorf electric train .

In 1968 the merger with the "Hamburg traffic amateurs" took place and was entered under the current name in the Hamburg register of associations.

The VVM has been operating the museum railway in the Baltic Sea resort of Schönberger Strand near Kiel since 1976 . A small, independent tram line has also been in operation there on the museum grounds since 1993.

In 2010 VVM and the Kleinbahnverein Wohldorf eV , newly founded in 1972, merged under the name VVM. The Kleinbahnmuseum Wohldorf is the third location of the VVM.

The railway infrastructure company "VVM Museumsbahn Betriebsgesellschaft" was founded in order to meet the legal requirements for operating a (museum) railway .

Activities and locations

Map with all the coordinates of the Activities and Locations section : OSM

Railway museum Lokschuppen Aumühle ( 53 ° 31 ′ 49.4 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 18.1 ″ E )

Operation of the Schönberger Strand museum railway on the section Schönberg Holst. - Stakendorf - Schönberger Strand on the Kiel – Schönberger Strand railway line ( 54 ° 23 ′ 36.1 ″ N , 10 ° 23 ′ 43 ″ E54.39336 10.39529 )

Operation of the Schönberger Strand tram system ( 54 ° 24 ′ 38.7 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 42.2 ″ E )

Kleinbahnmuseum Wohldorf ( 53 ° 42 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 10 ° 7 ′ 16.3 ″ E )

Club evenings, film and slide evenings in Hamburg and Kiel

Study trips (information visits to domestic and foreign transport companies and vehicle manufacturers)

traffic history research

Publication of the "Hamburger Nahverkehrs-Nachrichten" (HN) with reports on historical traffic events , public transport , brief reports on current events at the North German transport companies and their fleet of vehicles, political backgrounds and reports from the museum areas (four times a year)

Hamburg underground railcar 220

vehicles

Subway car 220

In 1971 the "Hochbahn-Wagen" of the T6 series was rescued from scrapping by members of the VVM and returned to the historical state of its year of construction in 1920 in the workshop of Hamburger Hochbahn AG . The safety devices installed in the meantime, the driving lock and dead man's button , were left as they were.

Originally, the vehicle belonged to the series of state railroad cars that were not procured by the Hochbahn, but by the Hamburg state for the opening of the Walddörferbahn . It is one of the few vehicles that was equipped with a second driver's cab. These were used during less frequented operating times on the Walddörferbahn and the branch line to Rothenburgsort.