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The Zürcher Museums-Bahn (ZMB) is a
heritage railway A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) ...
association based in the
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city of
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. It operates occasional services over the Sihltal line of the
Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn The ''Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn AG'' () – commonly abbreviated to SZU – is a public transport company and network in the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of canton of Zurich, Zurich. The network comprises the Uetliberg railway line, ...
, and preserves rolling stock, much of which formerly belonged to that operator. On the last Sunday of every month from April to October, a steam service is operated from Zurich Wiedikon station to Sihlbrugg station. The ZMB preserves a selection of former Sihltal line rolling stock, including two early steam locomotives, and a railcar and a locomotive built for the original electrification.


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List of heritage railways and funiculars in Switzerland This is a list of heritage railways in Switzerland. For convenience, the list includes any pre-World War II railway in the large sense of the term (either adhesion railway, rack railway or funicular) currently operated with at least several origi ...


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External links


The Zürcher Museums-Bahn web site
Heritage railways in Switzerland Railway lines in Switzerland Transport in the canton of Zürich {{switzerland-transport-stub