Thielenbruch station is a terminal and former depot of Cologne Stadtbahn

Cologne Stadtbahn

The Cologne Stadtbahn is a light rail system in the German city of Cologne, including several surrounding cities...

 located in the quarter of Dellbrück in Cologne. It is the northern terminus of Stadtbahn lines 3 and 18.

Terminal

The former depot Thielenbruch for the tram network consisted of one hall from 1906 and another from 1926. The older hall was rebuilt to the terminal of the Stadtbahn lines. There are today two platforms of which each serve two tracks, so the station totally offers four tracks.

Museum

Since 1997, the hall from 1926 is used as a transport museum to document the development of tramways and Stadtbahn in the Cologne region. Its collection contains several tram cars that were used by the Cologne transport authority (Kölner Verkehrsbetriebe, KVB), among them a horse-drawn tram, an "Achtachser" (lit. eight-axler), an articulated tram with eight axles, which was the last classical tram of Cologne, yet a very common type as it was used almost throughout the entire network, as well as the prototype of the Stadtbahn car B

Stadtbahnwagen B

The Stadtbahnwagen Typ B is a light rail vehicle used by several Stadtbahn networks in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was mainly developed by Düsseldorf-based DUEWAG, who also built the majoritiy of vehicles in a consortium with Siemens and Kiepe...

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External links

• http://www.kvb-koeln.de/german/unternehmen/museum/index.html – Information of Cologne transport authority about the museum (German)
• http://www.hsk-koeln.de/german/index.html – Homepage of the association for historic trams in Cologne (which operates the museum) (German)