The turntable
The mechanism that swings a locomotive onto its road.
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The transport museum in the Johanneum on the Neumarkt is a general museum covering rail, cars, aviation and shipping with models and scaled exhibits inside a historic city-centre building, and it suits families in any weather. The railway museum is a real operational site outside the centre with full-size locomotives and limited hours, for anyone specifically interested in railways. The two do not overlap.
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This museum occupies a historic locomotive depot in the Dresden-Altstadt railway area: a roundhouse with a turntable at its centre, the arrangement by which steam locomotives were stored and swung onto whichever departure road was needed. The collection holds steam, diesel and electric locomotives and carriages, many from the history of Saxon and East German railways. What separates it from the transport museum in the old town is that the latter is a general museum of all transport with scaled exhibits, while this is a working railway site with full-size locomotives in their original setting. Volunteers run the museum, which means two things: genuine expertise from people who restore these machines themselves, and limited opening hours unlike an institutional museum. Check the schedule before going, and look for steam days when a locomotive is actually fired — they are the best of what the place offers.
The mechanism that swings a locomotive onto its road.
A locomotive actually fired, not standing still.
Zwickauer Strasse 86, 01067 Dresden