Minden Museum Railway

Its aim was to preserve historic railway vehicles and operate them on the Minden District Railway (Mindener Kreisbahn or MKB).

It was not long before the first museum train worked the line.

The museum's vehicles were initially housed in the coach hall of the MKB's old locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk) at Minden Stadt station.

At the same time during that first year, locomotives were inspected and repaired on behalf of other museum railways.

At Minden-Oberstadt station a new shed will be built, around which a large depot can be established with workshops etc.