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01.05.2026: Season’s Greetings for May Day

Dear friends of our museum, thirty years ago, Wittenberge would still have been celebrating the ‘International Workers’ Day of Celebration for Peace and Socialism’. Today, we simply celebrate 1 May and enjoy the fine weather and cheerful atmosphere.

The atmosphere was just as lively at our recent event in mid-April, when we celebrated our traditional spring festival. On Saturday alone, we welcomed over 800 guests.






We had quite a bit on offer. Our large diesel locomotives 118 748 and 114 774 were demonstrated in operation. Many fans were delighted to be able to take a look inside the driver’s cabs and engine rooms. Our colleagues from the diesel section were on hand to provide explanations.




In addition, our museum train and the Trabi draisine were out and about on the site.





The event was a great success, even though visitor numbers on Sunday fell short of expectations due to the rainy and windy weather.

Just in time for the event, our small sales room on the ground floor of the signal box was completed. Here, the colleagues who look after our guests on the driver’s cab rides have renovated the space and made it a little more cosy.





In addition, our control centre has been further equipped. Since the last event, announcements can be made from here via the public address system throughout the museum grounds. Furthermore, this is where we provide commentary on the vehicle parades that we regularly hold during our events.



Meanwhile, preparations for the major overhaul of steam locomotive 50 3682 are progressing. We have now managed to dismantle the driver’s cab and the air and feed water pumps and store them on specially prepared transport units.







As you can see, dear visitors, things are progressing rapidly at the museum. Please do come along and have a look around at your leisure. We are open for you on Saturdays from 10 am.

We would like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to our next event on 13 and 14 June. This will be a somewhat larger affair. Not only are we celebrating our summer festival in the locomotive shed, but the Wittenberge Council will also be opening the newly renovated main station that weekend. If you’d like to arrive in style on a special train, we recommend the Magdeburg Railway Friends. Their train will consist of passenger carriages from the Deutsche Reichsbahn, hauled by a historic diesel locomotive (https://www.mebf.de/sonderfahrt-zum-eisenbahnfest-wittenberge/ ). In addition to this special train, we’re expecting further guest vehicles, which we’ll report on here shortly. overview