Bavarian Localbahn Society

The society runs the Localbahn Museum in Bayerisch Eisenstein[1] and a locomotive shed in Landshut.

The round shed with its seven tracks as well as the two-tracked long house contain steam engines, electric and diesel locomotives, passenger coaches as well as goods wagons from 1890 to 1949.

[3] The Bavarian Localbahn Society emerged from a working group of the German Railway History Company (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Eisenbahngeschichte or DGEG), that ran steam train services between 1969 and 1975 on the private Tegernsee Railway (Tegernsee-Bahn).

Because the operating licence for the locomotive (TAG 7) ran out and neither DGEG nor the Tegernsee Railway wanted to take on the cost of the general inspection, the Bavarian Localbahn Society was founded.

On September 11, 2005, the BLV celebrated its 30 years of existence with both a Class 70 and the TAG 7 steam engines operating.

Part of the locomotive shed housing the BLV's Localbahn Museum at Bayrisch Eisenstein in Bavaria, Germany
The BLV steam train headed by locomotive no. 70 083
169 005 in Fürth