Neustadt/Weinstrasse Railway Museum, Railway museum in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany.
The Neustadt/Weinstrasse Railway Museum occupies the largely original locomotive shed of the former Neustadt depot, built in the early days of the Palatinate Railway. Its collection focuses on vehicles of the southern German state railways, including the Palatine T 1 "Schaidt" and a T 5, a replica Crampton locomotive "Pfalz", and a 1942 steam rotary snow plough.
The DGEG, founded in 1967, rented the locomotive shed and workshop of the former Neustadt depot from the Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1972, when the site was slated for demolition. The first museum vehicles arrived in early 1972, and the collection grew to 20 exhibits after a storage building was demolished in 1976. In 1981 the vehicle collection became the Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt, and around 2000 the DGEG bought the adjacent new workshop site as an extension. The shed has been a listed monument since the 1980s.
The museum is run by volunteers of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Eisenbahngeschichte, founded in 1967, who restore and maintain the vehicles and buildings themselves. They also operate the Kuckucksbähnel, a heritage railway from Neustadt into the Palatine Forest. The museum was long called Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt and took the name Eisenbahnmuseum der Pfalz in 2025.
The museum is easy to reach on foot and allows visitors to walk around the outdoor exhibits and the historic shed. Wearing comfortable shoes is advisable, as you will spend time walking between the vehicles on display.
The museum also keeps a steam-powered rotary snow plough built in 1942, a machine rarely preserved in railway collections. It was used to clear snow from tracks, and its presence here reflects the depot's role in keeping lines open in winter.
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