Dieringhausen Railway Museum

The Railway Museum Dieringhausen is a museum dedicated to railway history Dieringhausen, a district of Gummersbach Oberbergi country. It is located on the extensive 11,000 sqm site of the former railway operations work Dieringhausen and is a listed building.

In the museum, among others, the steam locomotive " Waldbroel " little train Bielenstein - Waldbroel, the last existing in Germany Prussian T 14 (93 230) and the last original Prussian G 10 (57 in 1841 ) issued.

The museum along with various vehicles is owned by the Hermann Haeck Foundation and operated by the IG Bw Dieringhausen, which has leased the museum.

• 3.1 Engine Vehicles
• 3.2 passenger cars
• 3.3 goods and personnel Cart

History

Bahnbetriebswerk

Before the many smaller railway lines were built around Dieringhausen, Dieringhausen was only a very insignificant little village.

With the construction of the railway Siegburg - Olpe in 1890 there were in 1893 Dieringhausen first one Lokstation. This was when the railway network grew larger in Oberbergi country, too small. Thus, the depot Dieringhausen was opened in 1905 and then developed in the years to an ever larger area. To the station premises around many service apartments, whose buildings are still preserved to a large extent today and the place Dieringhausen emerged could grow strong. By the year 1920, the railway ran in Dieringhausen still across the site. The station was located on the present-day museum site. The depot was initially affiliated to the train station and much smaller than today.

It was not until 1920, when the railway line Siegburg - Olpe was realigned ( Agger train ) in the area Dieringhausen, the railway line was moved to the hillside and a new station built Dieringhausen (about 500 m further north ). The pure since depot is accessible via a random track from the new railway station Dieringhausen from. Today, however, this is associated with extensive shunting, because after setting the freight most tracks were dismantled in the station area. The depot grew from then on to its present site. In 1941 the first unit steam locomotives of the series were 50 and 86 located in Dieringhausen. In 1944 the depot was destroyed by air raids during the war. The Lokbahnhof in Osberghausen then became the fallback depot. Already in 1945 the depot was rebuilt, however, something was different as it had been before the war.

1956 the depot Dieringhausen were then assigned to the first rail buses, then 1962 followed by the diesel locomotives of class V 100

In 1969, the steam engines were adopted in Dieringhausen, from now on diesel locomotives and railcars were in Dieringhausen only home.

On April 30, 1982, the depot was closed Dieringhausen of the German Federal Railways, because after the massive decommissioning i railway network in the country Oberbergi the need for a railway depot was no longer available here. The Cologne-based diesel locomotives V 100 series were shut from now on overnight, as today the Talent trains in the station area Dieringhausen. There is therefore also a petrol station.

Railway Museum

After the depot Dieringhausen was closed on 30 April 1982, the association " railway enthusiasts impeller Upper Mountain" founded ( EFO ) with the aim to build a railway museum in the old depot and operate. It was founded a museum -GmbH, which was financially supported by Hermann Haeck and the museum operation. Many historic vehicles were purchased (often in very poor condition ) and consuming ( at least outwardly ) reprocessed. Then the first museum was celebrated in the same year. Then Hermann Haeck acquired the site of the former railway operation work of the German Federal Railways and with the establishment of a railway museum could be started. Initially, there were also several Uerdinger railbuses in museum collections that have been adopted, among others, after the closure of the railway operations work Dieringhausen. Many of them were sold due to lack of space and not existing needs, so that today only a Uerdinger railcar remained with his sidecar in the museum.

The previously represented in the Museum Steam Railway Rur - Wurm - Inde ( DRWI ) moved the beginning of 2007 with some cars and the operable steam locomotive 52 8148 from the Railway Museum. The new home of DRWI was in Mönchengladbach. In early June 2008, the club was however forced to cease its operations and dissolve - the vehicles were sold.

Towards the end of 2008, the steam locomotive Waldbroel the defunct narrow gauge railway Bielenstein - Waldbroel official opening took place back in operation after years of costly work-up. She had been standing for years with the false name " Nümbrecht " on a monument base in the same place and was in very poor condition.

In September 2008, then the last remaining steam locomotive of series 52, the locomotive was issued 52 8116 at the railway enthusiasts Osnabrück. The locomotive was not operational, was in poor condition and was not needed. In return, the railway museum of Osnabrück railway enthusiasts received a completed worked people dare type blunderbuss.

End of October 2008 it was announced in the press that the future of the railway museum Dieringhausen is at risk because the most important patron and also a museum owner, Hermann Haeck, had died and he had not taken the railway museum in his foundation. A subsequent transfer to the Foundation was yet to come. The Sons of Hermann Haecks also dismissed the seven permanent museum staff, because they were not claims to be able to finance the GmbH. In early February, there was again a press release, the annual costs could no longer be worn. From 1 February 2009, the museum was closed. The city of Gummersbach wanted to keep it happy, but also lacked the financial resources there. Now it has been hoped that the Rhineland Regional Council would support the museum.

However, the museum was then the end of 2009 part of the Hermann- Haeck Foundation. In April 2009, the name of the Museum Association of " railway enthusiasts impeller Upper Mountain" " e community of interest and Friends of the Railway Museum Gummersbach Dieringhausen V. " was in, " IG Bw Dieringhausen " short changed. There, a new board was elected and leased by the Hermann- Haeck Foundation Museum was re-opened for visitors.

The vehicle of the Museum in the course of several so-called collection of fixes and realignments on local Bergisch vehicle types will now be thinned out since the year 2007. The non-operative DR steam locomotive 50 3610 ( Rekolok ) and the DR steam locomotive 03 2155 (light express locomotive, built in 1934, Rekolok ) were sold to Wedler & Franz Lokomotiv services in Nossen the steam locomotive 44 1681 ( oil firing ) to the SVG Railway World from Horb am Neckar. The operative Train Locomotive 52 8095 was given to the volcanic Eifel -Bahn mbH from Gerolstein. Even the operable steam locomotive P8 2455 poses of the countries rail travel / Manuel Jussen, which was stationed on November 2, 2008 and was at times train locomotive of the train of memory, left August 3, 2012, the Museum.

Since September 2010, the last existing in Germany steam locomotive Prussian series t 14, loco 93 230 (nicknamed " The Bull " ), in Dieringhausen Railway Museum. This locomotive is on permanent loan over 15 years of the Dresden Transport Museum.

Special

Germany Unique in the system is by their arrangement on three levels / floors. At the lowest level is the main part of the facility with roundhouse, turntable, cargo handling, water cranes and inspection pits. On the second level there are coal bunker and the former premises. From there, the coal was dumped over a Schüttbekohlungsanlage down into the steam locomotives which this list included directly in the lowest level. About this still follows the third level, where the tracks of the former goods station and the main lines of the car are Agger. In the former sidings today two tank cars are parked as water tanks (higher water pressure), level is for visitors to the museum, however, is not accessible.

Equipment

Center of the museum are the historic roundhouse from 1906 with eleven stalls and a modern extension ( carwash ) and the associated hub (22 meters in diameter ). At Lokbehandlungsanlagen the now disused Schüttbekohlungsanlage, a Ausschlackkanal, two water cranes are ( a working) available to visit, a lifting gantry crane, the former Sandhaus, social buildings, and various inspection pits and a Achssenke and. Of the eight long-term extension of the roundhouse from 1920 are still the back walls and parts of the central smoke extraction system available. Also available are parts of the bunkers from the Second World War, which are not accessible, however. For visitors, a cafeteria (open only during special events ), a bookstore and a signal Garden were established.

In the museum are currently eleven steam locomotives (two operational ), seven diesel locomotives ( three operational ), a Uerdinger rail bus and an electric locomotive as well as an extensive car collection.

The Wiehltalbahn GmbH uses the museum parking for their vehicles, their MAN - rail bus and its Esslinger - control car.

The vehicles, which included Hermann Haeck earlier, in the possession of Hermann Haeck Foundation, which owns the museum along with the majority of vehicle collection. Other trucks but also includes the museum association IG Bw Dieringhausen as well as various individuals, which their wagons in the museum.

Steam locomotive 93 230, Prussian T 14, on the turntable

Industrial steam locomotive 43, the oldest locomotive of the museum, in front of the roundhouse

The electric locomotive E 41 006 at the Museum

Work vehicle Klv 51 at the Museum

In the museum, inter alia, the vehicles listed below are to be visited.

Locomotives

Passenger cars

• 8 Donnerbüchsen, of which: 3 operational ( a permanent loan from the Osnabrück railway enthusiasts )
• 5 off (some of spare parts )

Goods and personnel Cart

In Dieringhausen Railway Museum is also located a comprehensive collection of all types of goods and railway company car. These include, inter alia: