Lendcanaltramway, Tramway museum in Klagenfurt, Austria
Lendcanaltramway is a museum tramway run by the Nostalgiebahnen in Kärnten association in the Lendspitz nature reserve near Klagenfurt's Europapark. Its 750-metre line, built in summer 1976, has four stops and ends at a four-track depot holding around 40 tram cars from European operators.
The museum was founded in 1976 to preserve and display tram cars from across Europe, representing different eras of public transportation history. The collection grew to include vehicles that illustrate how tram systems developed and changed over the years.
The museum's name comes from its track along the Lendkanal, and its starting point by the canal hosted a snack wagon called "Zur Tramway" in a former Stubaitalbahn trailer. At the terminus, an exhibition covered public transport in Klagenfurt. Since 2006 the disused ORF medium-wave transmitter "See" next to the "Lendcanal" stop has housed a photo exhibition, "Klagenfurt einst – Eine Zeitreise in Bildern", on local public transport and Wörthersee shipping.
The museum opens mainly during warmer months and offers rides on its own track network that visitors can experience firsthand. It is best to check opening hours ahead of your visit and allow time to explore the vehicles and exhibition areas at a relaxed pace.
From 1977, weekend summer rides were pulled by the Haflinger horse "Max", hauling closed trailers from Innsbruck's former line 4. A restored Klagenfurt summer car was also used, but its long wheelbase caused repeated derailments in the narrow "Lendbogen" curve, so it ran only sporadically.
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