German Steam Locomotive Museum
The German Steam Locomotive Museum (Deutsches Dampflokomotiv-Museum) or DDM is located at the foot of the famous Schiefe Ebene ramp on the Ludwig South-North Railway in Neuenmarkt, Upper Franconia. This region is in northern Bavaria, Germany. The DDM was founded in 1977.
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Facilities
The museum is in the former locomotive shed (Bahnbetriebswerk) at Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg station.[1] It comprises a 15-road roundhouse, a turntable, water cranes, a coaling facility and a Ruge coal crane in a newly built 'old fashioned' working coal yard.
History
The locomotive shed was built in 1895 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways and extended in 1923 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. Amongst others, pusher locomotives e. g. DRG Class 95s (ex-Prussian T 20s) and Class 96s (ex-Bavarian Gt 2x4/4 Mallet locomotives) were stationed there. One example of a Class 95 may be seen in the museum.
Museum Locomotives
Around 30 steam locomotives may be seen, including a Bavarian S 3/6 express engine, a Bavarian PtL 2/2 (a tiny tank engine known as the Glaskasten, literally: 'glass box', the only complete surviving member of its class), a Prussian P 8 passenger train engine and a Saxon XIV HT. Deutsche Reichsbahn locomotives represented include Class 01, 03, 44, 50, 64, and 86 engines and there are Deutsche Bundesbahn Class 10 and 23 locomotives, as well as industrial engines. In addition there is a museum-owned narrow-gauge line on the land which is worked by steam and diesel locomotives. An electric express train locomotive, the DB Class 103, may temporarily be seen in the DDM as a museum locomotive.
Photos from the DDM
Except where stated, all locomotives depicted belong to the DDM.
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DRG Class 01 locomotive 01 111
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Number 01 118, a DRG Class 01 from the Historische Eisenbahn Frankfurt at the water crane in the coal yard.
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A DB Class 10, number 10 001.
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Number 98 307, the DDM's own Glaskasten (Bavarian PtL 2/2).
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Drive of number 03 131, a DRG Class 03.
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Fahrzeughalle DDM.jpg
View inside the DDM's roundhouse.
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Numbers 38 2383, a Prussian P 8, and 78 246, a Prussian T 18.
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Number 86 283 (DRG Class 86) at the DDM in historical photo-grey livery
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93 526 (Prussian T 14.1) in the DDM workshop
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Steam-operated snow machine (Schneefräse) 979 4100 at the DDM.
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DB museum loco 103 224-2, a DB Class 103.
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Schmalspur DDM.jpg
Two working narrow-gauge steam locomotives.
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Narrow-gauge steam engine 99 1562-0, a Meyer-type engine (IV K)
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Shunting tank locomotive 80 013 (DRG Class 80), Hagans Fabriknummer 1227, 1927[2]
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A Feldbahn locomotive, number 1757, a former German Army engine from the First World War
Other Vehicles and Exhibits
Various steam locomotive parts are also displayed, such as the smokebox, wheelset and cylinder block from locomotive number 18 610 (S 3/6) as well as the sectioned boiler from a Prussian G 8. Other exhibits of railway history include a steam crane, a saloon coach from Adolf Hitler's special train that was used in 1955 by German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, on his historic visit to Moscow, a snow plough, a dining car and a historical telegraph station.
In addition there is a large model railway layout (Theme: the Schiefe Ebene).
Also from engine number 18 610 is its tender which is coupled to 18 612.
Railway Operations
The museum runs trips over the Schiefe Ebene during the summer from Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg to Marktschorgast and the Mönchshof Brewery at Kulmbach.[3] A Class 796 Uerdingen railbus is stabled at the museum for these services and steam locomotives are also employed.
See also
- History of rail transport in Germany
- Royal Bavarian State Railways
- Deutsche Reichsbahn
- Deutsche Bundesbahn
- Schiefe Ebene
References
- ↑ Kursbuch der deutschen Museums-Eisenbahnen 2008 (Handbook of German Museum Railways), Verlag Uhle und Kleimann, ISBN 978-3-928959-50-6, serial 250
- ↑ Preserved locomotives from the Maschinenfabrik Christian Hagans
- ↑ Kursbuch der deutschen Museums-Eisenbahnen 2008 (Handbook of German Museum Railways), Verlag Uhle und Kleimann, ISBN 978-3-928959-50-6, serial 250a
External links
- http://www.dampflokmuseum.de DDM home page
- http://www.mytrains.at/deutsches_dampflokomotiv_museum.htm Private site about the DDM
- Bavarian section of lokomotive-online.com
- There is an English-language discussion forum at Railways of Germany
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