Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz

The museum's DRG Class 64 locomotive, no. 64 491, May 2006

The Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz e. V. (Franconian Switzerland Steam Railway Co. Ltd.) or DFS is a German museum railway based in Ebermannstadt in Franconian Switzerland, part of northern Bavaria, Germany^[1][2].

Aims

Museum railway in the Wiesent valley

The society's aims are the:

• Setting up, operation and preservation of a museum railway on the former federal railway line from Ebermannstadt to Behringersmühle in the Wiesent valley.
• Acquisition and preservation of historic railway vehicles, especially those connected with the Ebermannstadt–Behringersmühle branch line.
• Organisation of presentations, tours, trips and exhibitions.

Operations

Since 1980 the society has also had a concession to run a railway and is an authorised railway service and railway infrastructure operator. The Franconian Switzerland Steam Railway is the oldest museum railway in Franconia, the northern region of Bavaria.

Between 1 May and 31 October the museum railway runs scheduled trains on Sundays. For the operation of the museum the DFS has a fleet comprising three steam locomotives, an accumulator railcar, four diesel locomotives and a diesel railbus as well as a number of historic passenger coaches.

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  Talbot hopper at Ebermannstadt

See also

• Royal Bavarian State Railways
• Deutsche Reichsbahn
• Deutsche Bundesbahn
• List of Bavarian locomotives and railbuses
• List of DRG locomotives and railbuses

References

1. ^ Kursbuch der deutschen Museums-Eisenbahnen 2008 (Handbook of German Museum Railways), Verlag Uhle und Kleimann, ISBN 978-3-928959-50-6, serial 251
2. ^ It is a charitable society registered with the Forchheim district court, that was founded on 16 April 1974.

Literature

• Die Museumsbahn Ebermannstadt-Behringersmühle. Hans Falkenberg Verlag, Haßfurt. ISBN 3-927332-24-0.

External links

• Official Homepage of the Franconian Switzerland Steam Railway Society
• There is an English-language discussion forum at Railways of Germany