Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum

Om museet

The site in southern Bochum was built between 1916 and 1918 as the Dahlhausen locomotive depot. It mainly serviced the locomotives that hauled coal away from the collieries of the Ruhr valley. With the decline of mining, the depot lost its purpose and was closed in 1969.

In 1977 the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Eisenbahngeschichte (DGEG, German Society for Railway History) set up a museum on the site. Volunteer members gradually built up one of the largest collections of historic rail vehicles in Germany. At its heart, to this day, is the roundhouse with 14 stalls and a 20-meter turntable, surrounded by a water tower, coal bunkers and other operating facilities on around 46,000 square meters.

In 2011 operation passed to the newly founded Stiftung Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum, in which the City of Bochum and the Regionalverband Ruhr (Ruhr Regional Association) are involved alongside the DGEG. Since then the museum has been modernized; a new reception building was added in 2020. The museum is an anchor point of the Route der Industriekultur (Industrial Heritage Trail).

The collection comprises more than 120 vehicles from between 1853 and 1976 – steam, electric and diesel locomotives, passenger and freight cars. Around 100 volunteers maintain the vehicles. From spring to fall, museum trains of the Ruhrtalbahn run through the Ruhr valley toward Hagen.

Højdepunkter

• Roundhouse with 14 stalls and a 20-meter turntable
• Prussian P 8 (38 2267) in operation
• The only surviving class 66 steam locomotive (66 002)
• More than 120 rail vehicles from 1853 to 1976
• Ruhrtalbahn museum trains

Permanente udstillinger

• Fahrzeugsammlung im Bahnbetriebswerk – Locomotives and cars from more than a hundred years of railway history in the roundhouse, the exhibition hall and on the outdoor grounds of the historic depot.

Grundlagt

1977

Ejer

Stiftung Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum

Entrépriser & rabatter

Card payment (EC/debit card) for admission only. Ruhrtalbahn rides and special trips are separate; children under 15 ride free when accompanied by adults.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig: ingen oplysninger
• Elevator: ingen oplysninger
• Handicaptoilet: ingen oplysninger
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops

Annual children's days; a ride on the field railway is promoted as a special experience for families (currently not in operation).

Transport & parkering

GPS address: Dr.-C.-Otto-Straße 222.

Service & spisesteder

• Museumsbutik

Leashed dogs are welcome. Museum shop.

Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje
• Private fester
• Firmaarrangementer

Op til 199 personer.

Exhibition hall with four tracks (up to 199 guests, with locomotives as a backdrop) and the Vogelsang-Saal for conferences (up to 50 people, projector).

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