Steam locomotive Bruchhausen at Bruchhausen-Vilsen station

The railway is still in operation. It is still operational in the summer months.

Here you will find history you can touch and experience. You can travel on the historic steam trains on the eight-kilometer-long narrow-gauge line with four stations and four stops. You can find further information here: kleinbahn-museum.de/seite.

little info from the internet:


In 1899 delivered to the Hoya-Syke-Asendorf small railway, there locomotive "BRUCHHAUSEN".
In 1949 the Lower Saxony State Railway Office redesignated it as "NLEA 33" on the Hoya-Syke-Asendorf small railway, there HSA 33 "BRUCHHAUSEN".
In 1959 redesignated Hoya-Syke-Asendorfer Eisenbahn HSAE 33 "BRUCHHAUSEN".
In 1963 it was renamed Verkehrsbetriebe Grafschaft Hoya GmbH VGH 33.
In 1966, from July 2nd, the first museum railway steam locomotive in Germany was made available to the then German Kleinbahn-Verein e.V. in Bruchhausen-Vilsen, there locomotive "BRUCHHAUSEN".
1967 last day of operation on September 1st.
In 1971 it was handed over to the German Railway Association and on July 2nd it was erected as a monument at Bruchhausen-Vilsen train station.
At the beginning of 2002 it was transferred to the DEV workshop for external refurbishment.
In 2003 on May 1st it was erected again as a monument in the redesigned roundabout next to the Bruchhausen-Vilsen train station.


more online at: museumseisenbahn.de/index.php/de/fahrzeugen.html