Passauer Eisenbahnfreunde

Apart from one power car, all parts of the multiple unit have passed their general inspection and may therefore operate on networks owned by DB AG, ČD, Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and other companies.

This engine is equipped with remote control and automatic couplers, in order to be able to shunt with the minimum of staff.

The locomotive was bought from the DB in a pitiful state; the engine was no longer usable because important levers and armatures had been removed from the driver's cab or destroyed.

In order to maintain branch lines that the society has operated for several decades, an engineering vehicle (Rottenkraftwagen), made by the firm of Waggon Union in Berlin, was bought.

Blue liveried coaches of classes Aüe 310, ABüe 333, Büe 366 and ARmz 216 form an F-Zug long-distance express train rake from the 1950s.

The coach has been given its original ruby-red livery, but is otherwise still in its most recent state technically, with sliding windows, rubber corridor connexions and Minden-Deutz bogies.

The six-wheeler was originally procured for maintenance duties on the branch lines around Passau and is therefore converted today into a departmental wagon.

The coach is well preserved and has interior fittings including a kitchen, sleeping compartment and an office and workshop room.

Over the years the society has run a lot of special trains on branch lines in the Passau area.

In 2002 the Ilztalbahn (Passau-Freyung) and the Passau – Hauzenberg were badly damaged by the worst floods in one hundred years.

The shed was originally built by the Deutsche Bundesbahn to maintain its VT98 units and is therefore equipped with a pit, a compressed air station and associated ventilation facilities.

Shed II is located at the other end of the site and, with its two tracks and overall length of about 100 metres it offers the possibility of storing passenger coaches.

In shed II the society has its own lifting gear with a carrying capacity of 64 tonnes which is used to swap axles on vehicles.

Several society members decided in 1983 to build a model railway in H0 gauge, which is devoted to Passau and its surrounding area.

Space has been made available at Passau Hauptbahnhof for this and the layout can be viewed on public demonstration days or every Friday from 6 p.m.