Nahverkehrsmuseum Dortmund, Railway museum in Dortmund, Germany.
The Nahverkehrsmuseum Dortmund is a railway museum housed in former locomotive sheds and wagon halls that display trams, buses, and other vehicles from different periods. The buildings themselves are part of the industrial transport history and give visitors a sense of how these vehicles were once maintained and stored.
The museum has occupied the former locomotive repair workshop Betriebswerk Mooskamp since 2001. The site is the last former RAG workshop still operating after the locomotive shop of the Prosper-Haniel colliery in Bottrop closed. The Bahnhof Mooskamp non-profit company, founded on 5 July 2007, maintains the Hansa locomotive hall and its colliery branch line. In early 2013 the Regionalverband Ruhr added the museum to the Route of Industrial Heritage.
The collection reveals how residents of Dortmund relied on trams and buses across generations, showing the continuous improvements made to public transport in this industrial city. The displayed vehicles reflect the everyday journeys people took and how their mobility changed over time.
The site is the Betriebshof Obernette, with eight hall tracks, seven storage tracks and a two-track paved stop with a waiting hall. Trams run on about 9 km of former Hoesch and coking-plant tracks; because the line is not electrified, generator wagons supply the current. The route crosses the Cöln-Mindener railway bridge and passes a roughly 50 m tunnel under the OWIIIa and U47.
Visitors can ride historical trams along original tracks of the Hansa line between Ellinghausen and Huckarde, passing through the grounds of a former coking plant. These rides offer a rare chance to experience the vehicles not just as displays but in their actual working function.
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