Skjoldenæsholm Tram Museum

The Tramway Museum Skjoldenæsholm located on the Danish island of Zealand and is located between Ringsted and Hvalsø. It was opened in 1978 and is today the only place in Denmark, still drive on the trams.

Available are equipment and operational vehicles of the former Danish street railway companies of Aarhus (1971 decommissioned), København (1972 decommissioned) and Odense (1952 decommissioned) as well as many foreign companies such as railcars from Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Rostock and Malmö, also some trolleybuses.

The vehicle, which had to travel the furthest distance to arrive at the museum, was brought from the Australian city of Melbourne. It is a gift from the city in honor of the Danish Crown Princess Mary Donaldson, who worked there from 1996 to 2002. The shipping company Maersk Sealand took over the transport free of charge.

For driving are available:

• A 300 m long distance in meter gauge, on the vehicles from Aarhus, Flensburg and Basel are traveling and
• A 1.5 km long track with standard gauge, which uses the route of a former railway line and runs straight through a forest.

Tickets can simultaneously be used as ticket and allow an unlimited number of passenger rides on visiting.

The offer is rounded off by two exhibition halls, where many items are shown on the history of the Danish transport. The left- located from the direction of the entrance hall is an original tramcars Hall of Copenhagen, which was mined there and rebuilt at the Museum ( Valby Gamle coach house ).