German Steam Locomotive Museum, Railway museum in Neuenmarkt, Germany.
The German Steam Locomotive Museum is a railway museum in Neuenmarkt at Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg railway depot, featuring a large roundhouse. The locomotive shed holds around 30 steam locomotives and includes a turntable and water cranes for servicing the machines.
The depot opened in 1895 under the Royal Bavarian State Railways and was enlarged by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1923; Class 95 and Class 96 pusher locomotives were stationed here for the Schiefe Ebene. After steam working ended in Franconia before the mid-1970s the shed was to be demolished, but builder Günter Knauß acquired and restored locomotives, and the museum opened on 22 July 1977. A Zweckverband of Upper Franconia, Kulmbach district and Neuenmarkt took it over in 1984.
The museum displays locomotives from different periods of German railway history, arranged within the roundhouse. Visitors can observe the varying designs and technical developments of these machines as they walk through.
The museum is open year-round, but operating hours vary by season. Plan enough time to walk through the entire roundhouse and observe the many details of the displayed machines.
The museum owns a 600 mm narrow-gauge line on its grounds, worked by steam and diesel locomotives. A Class 796 Uerdingen railbus is stabled here for summer trips over the Schiefe Ebene to Marktschorgast and the Mönchshof brewery in Kulmbach. In spring 1995 a VT 95 railbus of the DDM travelled five days from Neuenmarkt via Küstrin, Danzig and Elbing to Königsberg and back.
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