Franconian Museum Railway

Franconian Museum Railway
(Fränkische Museums Eisenbahn)
Locomotive 52 8195 Easter Sunday 2008
Locale Bavaria
Terminus Nürnberg North East
Preserved operations
Preservation history

The Franconian Museum Railway (German: Fränkische Museums Eisenbahn) is an association whose purpose is to preserve and promote interest in historic railway vehicles. Since 1996 it has been accredited also as a railway company.

The association was established in 1985 in Nuremberg. In this industrial city it aims to preserve the memory of the steam locomotive era.

Until then there was no such institution except the Nuremberg Transport Museum. The intention was that the association would not only preserver and document steam rail memorabilia, but also maintain historically authentic stock and operate special rail journeys to capture the "atmosphere" of steam rail travel.

Museum railway

The Franconian Museum Railway runs steam trains from Nuremberg on the so-called Gräfenberger Lokalbahn (Grafenberg local line) to the town of Gräfenberg, known as the "Gateway to Franconian Switzerland", 30 kilometres away.[1] It also runs specials in Bavaria.

Railway Vehicles

The society owns the following railway vehicles:

Locomotives

Wagons

References

  1. ↑ museum.bahnen-und-busse.de as at 28 November 2008

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