The Dieringhausen Railway Museum (''Eisenbahnmuseum Dieringhausen'') is a railway history museum in Dieringhausen in the district of

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.111 It is located on the site of the former

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at Dieringhausen and is a protected historical monument with of land. After railway operations had ceased on 1 May 1982, a society was founded with the aim of forming and running a museum. That same year the first museum festival was celebrated.

Installations

The site has a historical locomotive roundhouse with twelve roads and their associated

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. Even the equipment of the former steam depot can be seen. A cafeteria and bookshop have been established for visitors. The museum has a fleet of eleven

steam locomotives A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomot ...

, eleven

diesel locomotives A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed, differing mainly in the means by which mechanical power is conveyed to the driving wheels ...

, four

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and a collection of railway wagons. In early 2007 the

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tender locomotive, 8095, was sold to the ''Vulkan-Eifel-Bahn Betriebsgesellschaft mbH'', based at Gerolstein. A planned sale of the

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goods train steam locomotive, number 3610-8, fell through. So it was hired to the DRWI (see below) until its inspection licence ran out in December 2007. The

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steam engine P8 2455 "Posen" from the firm of "Länderbahnreisen / Manuel Jußen", Marburg, is also stationed at Dieringhausen. The DRWI (''Dampfbahn Rur-Wurm-Inde''), formerly based at the museum, left in early 2007 with several wagons and the steam locomotive 52 8148. Its new home is in

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References

External links

Website of the Dieringhausen Railway Museum

Website of the Prussian P8 2455 Posen

English website of the 'Society For The Preservation Of The Wiehltalbahn'
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