Freilassing Locomotive World, Railway museum in Freilassing, Germany.
Freilassing Locomotive World is a railway museum set inside an original round engine shed in Freilassing, Bavaria. The building is arranged around a central turntable from which several tracks radiate outward, and the display includes steam locomotives and other rail vehicles from different periods.
The depot was built between 1902 and 1905 on the Munich–Salzburg line, with a twenty-road roundhouse, turntable, its own power station and workshops. Deutsche Bahn used the site until 1994; the training workshop closed in 1998 and the buildings were listed that same year. The town of Freilassing bought the site with the Deutsches Museum in 2003, and the museum opened on 2 September 2006.
The name Lokwelt, meaning locomotive world, reflects how central rail life was to this corner of Bavaria. Visitors can walk freely among the vehicles and get a sense of what daily work in a railway depot looked like.
The museum is within walking distance of Freilassing train station and is accessible by wheelchair throughout. The metal and stone hall can get cool inside, so bringing an extra layer is a good idea, particularly in colder months.
The central turntable, built in 1902, is still in working order and is sometimes operated during visits so that people can see how locomotives were repositioned by hand. This makes it one of the few surviving working turntables of its age in a German railway museum.
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