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22.10.2025: End of season

Dear friends of the Wittenberge Historic Locomotive Shed, Autumn has unmistakably arrived and once again we have (almost) completed another season. Most recently, we held our Autumn Steam 2025 event at the beginning of October. Unfortunately, we were only able to welcome significantly fewer visitors than usual this time. There were obviously several reasons for this: Firstly, the weather was terrible. Continuous rain and wind made things difficult for us. Secondly, we were not accessible by train. This had a significant impact, as many guests from the metropolitan areas of Hamburg and Berlin usually travel to us by local and long-distance transport. But at least we were delighted to welcome a good 700 visitors. Thank you for visiting us despite the adverse conditions!
If you're thinking that you should stop by again this year, you still have this coming Saturday. That's when our museum will be open to visitors for the last time this year, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last admission at 4 p.m.).
What else is new? Something very remarkable, absolutely delightful for us and certainly quite unexpected for the railway enthusiast scene. Our diesel locomotive 118 754 has passed its general inspection in the last few days and, following extensive work on the chassis, engines, brakes and electrical and radio equipment, is now fully operational again throughout Germany. So if you see it outside its home town of Wittenberge on special assignments in the near future, please don't be surprised, but delighted. We would also love to see pictures of her in action ( info@dampflok-wittenberge.de). We will be happy to include selected pictures in our next newsletter, crediting the photographer if desired.


Fortunately, our T174 excavator is also making progress. Now that all work on its interior and bodywork has been completed, it is currently being painted in the typical green colour that some of you may remember from the GDR era. Now the new or reconditioned windows and lamps have to be installed. Finally, it will be labelled and will then hopefully be available to us again for a long time for work in the museum.



Our colleagues who look after our historical bell collection have also been busy again. They have now been able to set up another system after it had been derusted and repainted. Great work!



Dear readers, we know from various letters that many of you enjoy following what is happening here. We will therefore continue to keep you informed about new developments in and around the museum in the coming weeks and months. Stay tuned and stay with us! Thank you, and we hope to welcome you back to Wittenberge next season. The museum will be open regularly on Saturdays again from Easter Saturday, 11 April 2026. The first event next year will already take place in mid-April 2026. We will inform you in good time.overview