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The Traditionsbetriebswerk Stassfurt (Stassfurt Heritage Locomotive Depot) is a German railway motive power depot at Stassfurt in the state of Saxony-Anhalt that was opened in 1856. Today the locomotive depot, that lies on the
Schönebeck Schönebeck (), officially Schönebeck (Elbe), is a town in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, approx. southeast of Magdeburg. For much of the twentieth century it was noted ...
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Güsten Güsten is a town in the Salzlandkreis, district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the river Wipper (Saale), Wipper, west of Bernburg. It is part of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Saale-Wipper. It ...
railway line, is operated by the society ''Eisenbahnfreunde Traditionsbahnbetriebswerk Staßfurt'' (Railway Friends of the Stassfurt Heritage Locomotive Depot). The locomotive roundhouse, with its 20m turntable, is over 100 years old and can accommodate 24 locomotives. Until 1988,
DRG Class 41 The German Class 41 steam locomotives were standard goods train engines ('' Einheitslokomotiven'') operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRB) and built from 1937 to 1941. History In the search for a new, fast, goods train locomotive, the Deu ...
and Class 50 steam locomotives were deployed from here on regular passenger, fast-stopping and freight services.


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Eisenbahnfreunde Traditionsbahnbetriebswerk Staßfurt e.V.
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