Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein

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This article is about the heritage railway in Germany. For the British society for those interested in German railways, see German Railway Society.
Bruchhausen-Vilsen–Asendorf Museum Railway
Route number: 12383
Line length: 7,8
Track gauge: 1000
Maximum speed: 20
0,0 Bruchhausen-VilsenJoint station with VGH
0,9 Vilsen-Ort (formerly Fischteiche)
1,4 Wiehe-Kurpark
2,3 Vilser Holz
3,9 Heiligenberg
4,6 Klosterheide
6,1 Arbste
7,8 Asendorfterminus

The Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein (German Railway Society) or DEV was founded in November 1964 as the Deutscher Kleinbahn-Verein ("German Kleinbahn Society"). Its purpose was the preservation of a working branch line with all its installations as a living open-air museum. The term Kleinbahn was primarily a Prussian concept that referred to light branch lines with lower traffic demands and of more lightweight construction than main lines or normal branch lines, hence the Kleinbahnen were mainly found in northern Germany.

History

File:Rollbockanlage Uebersicht.jpg
Rollbock pit at Bruchhausen-Vilsen

On 2 July 1966, museum railway services began on the narrow gauge section of line from Bruchhausen-Vilsen to Heiligenberg operated by the Verkehrsbetriebe Grafschaft Hoya, about 35 km south of Bremen, using the steam locomotive Bruchhausen and one coach. Setting aside a number of short-lived trials, this was the first museum railway in Germany.[1]

Since then the Lower Saxony Kleinbahn Museum (Niedersächsische Kleinbahn-Museum) has emerged. At weekends from May to September and in December, regular services are run on the Bruchhausen-Vilsen–Asendorf route - predominantly with steam trains. Under the name Hoyaer Eisenbahn, a connecting service is operated on the Eystrup–Hoya–Bruchhausen-Vilsen–Syke route. In Bruchhausen-Vilsen station, standard gauge vehicles may be transferred to the narrow gauge section by means of rollbocks (Rollböcken) or transporter wagons (Rollwagen).

Vehicles

File:DB V29 narrow gauge locomotive.jpg
V 29 at Bruchhausen-Vilsen

There were more than 90 vehicles in the museum's collection in 2006, both standard gauge and metre gauge, built between 1892 and 1957, the vast majority of which were operational.

Amongst them were seven steam locomotives (including the former DR 99 5633 and a Lenz-Typ i), five diesel locomotives (including the former DB Class V 29), six railbuses (including a Wismar railbus, a Wismar (Frankfurt version) and one from the Franzburger Kreisbahn, 28 passenger coaches, 6 luggage and mail vans and numerous goods wagons and works vehicles. The society even has some standard gauge vehicles.

Gallery

  • BRUCHHAUSEN Bruchhausen-Vilsen 16.10.10 (w5).JPG

    Locomotive Bruchhausen, identical to Hoya

  • BruchhausenVilsen3.jpg

    Hoya at Bruchhausen-Vilsen station with goods wagon 53

  • Bruchhausen-VilsenBuffetwagen.jpg

    Train with buffet car

  • BruchhausenVilsen4.jpg

    Coach 4

  • BruchhausenVilsen17Detail.jpg

    Coach 17: detail

  • BruchhausenVilsen17innenBuff.jpg

    Inside coach 17

  • BruchhausenVilsen2.jpg

    Railbus T44 with wagon 2 at Bruchhausen-Vilsen

  • BruchhausenVilsenTriebwagenzug.jpg

    Multiple-unit train, wagon 2 in the centre

  • BruchhausenVilsen7.jpg

    Multiple-unit train

  • BruchhausenVilsenArbeitswagen.jpg

    MOW vehicle SKL 1 Friedhelm

  • 147 GGw Bruchhausen-Vilsen 16.10.10 (w13).JPG

    Goods wagon 147

  • BruchhausenVilsenBuff.jpg

    Train with buffet car

In the workshop attached to the museum, increasingly rare skills, such as the rivetting of steam locomotive boilers, are maintained. The operation and maintenance of the vehicles and installations is mainly carried out by volunteers.

Literature

  • "Die Museums-Eisenbahn - Zeitschrift für Kleinbahn-Geschichte" ist das offizielle Organ der Vereinigungen Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein e.V. (DEV) und der Gesellschaft zur Erhaltung von Schienenfahrzeugen e.V. (GES). ISSN 0936-4609
  • Claas Rehmstedt: Die Fahrzeuge der Museums-Eisenbahn Bruchhausen-Vilsen–Asendorf. Verlag Feld- und Schmalspurbahnen Karl Paskarb, Celle 2005. ISBN 3-938278-09-9
  • Wolfram Bäumer: Mit Tempo 20 über Land. Bildführer durch das Kleinbahn Museum Bruchhausen-Vilsen. DEV-Kleinbahn-Verlag, Bruchhausen-Vilsen 1995. ISBN 3-9802233-9-6

Film

See also

References

  1. ↑ www.bahnen-und-busse.de "Die Museumseisenbahn Bruchhausen-Vilsen ist die erste Museumseisenbahn Deutschlands und wird seit 1966 vom Deutschen Eisenbahn-Verein e. V. betrieben." - extract from www.bahnen-und-busse.de (German website of museum bus and railway lines) as at 16 September 2008.

External links

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