By joining the Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein e.V. as a member you can help us to keep alive the witnesses of the branch line history for the future. Please get membership information from the DEV station office.

As a member you will receive four annual issues of our magazine "Die Museums-Eisenbahn". Furthermore you will have free rides with our museum railroad from Bruchhausen-Vilsen to Asendorf and you are entitled for discounted tickets at many German museum railroads. We allways need practical help to keep our trains running. Ask for details!

Picture: DEV Diesel Engine V1 (build by Krupp in 1941)

The DEV station office is your primary information source if you have questions regarding normal train rides, reservations for groups or booking of special train rides.

Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein e.V.
P.O. Box 1106
D-27300 Bruchhausen-Vilsen
Germany

  Phone:   +49 4252 / 9300 - 21  DEV station office, monday to friday 9.00 to 11.00 o'clock (CET)
           +49 4252 / 9300 - 34  DEV ticket office, on operation days of the museum railroad only
  FAX:     +49 4252 / 9300 - 12
  E-Mail:  
  Public relations contact:
           

You and your group would like to have an individual visit to the First Museum Railway of Germany? Then fix your own timetable.

The Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein gives you the opportunity to hire special trains on our narrow gauge museum railway Bruchhausen-Vilsen -- Heiligenberg -- Asendorf. You can choose a steam train with historic coaches (3rd class, wooden chairs), a diesel train or a motorcar.

You can fix the timetable by yourself, ask for details at the DEV station office.

Picture: DEV Motorcar T44

Picture: Motorcar T2

We do offer additional train rides on the standard gauge line "Hoyaer Eisenbahn" Eystrup -- Hoya/Weser -- Bruchhausen-Vilsen -- Heiligenfelde with the motorcar T2 (build in 1956). Please ask for details.

The museum-shop at Bruchhausen-Vilsen station offers all kind of railroad-literature, model-railroads and gifts. Open only on operation days of the museum railroad. The Shop will be opened one hour before departure of the first train.

Picture: Museum-Shop at Bruchhausen-Vilsen

TourismusService Bruchhausen-Vilsen (follow this link for information in german language)
Bahnhof 2
D-27305 Bruchhausen-Vilsen
Germany
  Phone:   +49 4252 / 93 00 50
  FAX:     +49 4252 / 93 00 53

• Internet: www.bruchhausen-vilsen.de
• email: info@bruchhausen-vilsen.de

Mittelweser-Touristik GmbH
Lange Straße 18
D-31582 Nienburg/Weser
Germany
  Phone:   05021 / 91763-0
  FAX:     05021 / 91763-40

• Internet: www.mittelweser-tourismus.de
• email: info@mittelweser-tourismus.de