Bavarian Railway Museum

The Bavarian Railway Museum (BEM ) is a railway museum in Nördlingen in 1985 on the site of the 1982 disused railway depot Nördlingen his car collection housed here. With more than one hundred original vehicles, it is the largest private railway museum in Bavaria.

History

Already in 1849 was the construction of the Ludwig South - North Railway from Lindau to Hof a workshop for the maintenance of locomotives and wagons. From this period dates back to the 1850 tract 3 of the roundhouse; the tracts 1 and 2 were followed. These two tracts were later due to the new locomotive lengths extended to the rear. The workshop buildings date from the period before 1900, as well as the layout of the railcar hall designated only as " Montirung ". The facilities were extended to 1937 continuously over time and adapted to the needs. The final extension was carried out from 1935 to 1937, when the roundhouse stalls extended and a 20 -meter hub was installed.

A major step in the history brought the air raids of World War II in the years 1944 and 1945, were destroyed as much of the depot. Were spared only tract 2 and 3 of the roundhouse next to the workshop buildings and the water tower. The facilities were not yet established in the years to 1949, partially modernized again.

In a short flowering period the plant operating lived to the allocation of diesel locomotives (V 100 and VT 98) and battery railcars ETA 150 As early as 1966 ended the scheduled spiritual home of steam locomotives. With the electrification of the railway Ries Donauwörth- Aalen and Neuoffingen -Ingolstadt many diesel locomotives were dispensable, so that in 1982 the depot was closed as a separate unit. The closures of the outgoing of Nördlingen branch lines did the rest to some semblance of tranquility in the entire station Nördlingen. 1985, the railroad board from the site was relocated and given up the operation as a branch of the Augsburg plant operation.

The BEM was founded as EC 18 528 1969 and later renamed the Railway Club Munich. The collection of vehicles was set up in Munich and was suffering from lack of space. In the fall of 1985, the Bavarian Railway Museum took over the partially disassembled equipment. Since then an attempt is made in painstaking detail, again set up a complete depot. Thus, some tracks had again re-laid and several roundhouse stalls are reattached to the turntable. In addition, two water cranes were installed. In the near future, a coal handling plant will be put into operation again.

Railway operation

Bavarian Railway Museum

The Bavarian Railway Museum performs on the track to Gunzenhausen, on the section Nördlingen - wet cheeks the way to Dombühl, as well as on the remaining section Landshut - Neuhausen of the railway line Landshut Rottenburg traffic with historical vehicles.

BayernBahn mbH

The subsidiary BayernBahn mbH ( Bavaria Rail ) operates as a railway infrastructure company which leased from Deutsche Bahn routes that lead from Nördlingen by Dombühl and to Gunzenhausen, as well as the railway line Landshut - Neuhausen; these together have a total length of 108 km. As a railway transport company offers the Bavaria Rail freight, work train and special services at (especially with museum vehicles ).

For several years, partly stately freight trains also be driven in Nördlinger area, such as Wood and wood products. This usually diesel locomotives of the series V 100 and V 60 are used, in part, but also the steam locomotives of the museum. Daily since January 2010, a freight train is traveling the section between Wassertruedingen and Gunzenhausen with a V60. This brings the train at the company Schwarzkopf, brings him to Gunzenhausen and gives him a locomotive BR 142 or BR 139, which brings him to Monheim am Rhein in the logistics center of the company Henkel. The train consists of 16 to 20 boxcars.

Exhibits

A selection of operational locomotives:

• LAG 7 FEET, 1889
• 18 478 1918
• 01 066, 1928
• 41 1150 1939
• V 60 860 1955
• V 100 1365 1963