Bahnpark Augsburg

What is the Bahnpark Augsburg?

The Bahnpark Augsburg is a railway museum on the grounds of the former Augsburg locomotive depot. Two historic roundhouses from 1902–1906 and 1922–1924 house steam, diesel and electric locomotives spanning more than a century of European railway history.

The museum is housed in a complex recognised as a cultural monument of national significance. Visitors encounter locomotives from across Europe – an Austro-Hungarian steam engine from 1897, the royal train locomotive of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, and the legendary “Glass Train” of the 1930s.

The “Zeitreise” exhibition

The new permanent exhibition “Zeitreise. Locomotives telling European history” is being developed in the northern roundhouse. Twelve historic “ambassador locomotives” from different European countries guide visitors through some 150 years of European railway and contemporary history – from the late 19th century Vienna–Trieste line through a Europe torn by war, across the Iron Curtain, to the politically unified European Union.

The exhibition is funded by the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States (Kulturstiftung der Länder).

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