Please note!!!!
The museum is not yet officially open. Until the opening, we are available for individual guided tours by appointment, but we have to charge a fee of €2 per person, minimum €20, due to the effort involved. This offer is particularly intended for groups, for whom we are also happy to give a lecture on the railway history of the Eifel on request.

The opening is planned for spring 2024.

Small but beautiful - in the Jünkerath Railway Museum you will find many interesting exhibits from 150 years of railway history!

The "Small Jünkerath Railway Museum" was launched in 2008, by which time the last railwayman had long since retired from Jünkerath station. Not a single one of the more than 800 railwaymen's jobs that once existed in Jünkerath was left.

What remained, however, were many things that once characterised the work of railwaymen in Jünkerath. Uniforms, lamps, telephones, stamps, signs, ticket tongs, signal box levers, tools and other items of equipment. There were also service regulations, timetables, rosters, course books, tickets and many other documents. We have collected, refurbished and maintained all of this over many years and exhibited it in our museum.

Until 14 July 2021, the museum was located in the basement of the Iron Museum, in the street "Am Römerwall", not far from the station building, and the rooms of the museum were assigned to themes. There was a railway station room, a signal box room, etc. The rooms were completely flooded and parts of the collection destroyed by the flood disaster that hit large parts of the Eifel region on the night of 14/15 July 2021.

Despite this disaster, the consequences of which we are still dealing with, giving up was not an option. And so we found a new location at Mühlengasse 3a in Jünkerath - Glaadt and are building a new railway museum there. At the new location, we are safe from flooding, as the museum is located on the first floor of a former mill. The picture above shows the entrance, which can be reached via an outside staircase.

The new premises are very different to those in our museum on the Römerwall and we had to adapt our exhibition concept accordingly. We are not quite finished yet. The opening is planned for spring 2024. However, you can already take a virtual look at our new museum at www.eisenbahnmuseum-juenkerath.de . The pictures on the homepage show the state at the beginning of February 2023 and you can clearly see that, despite the flood-related losses and damage, we can still display numerous exhibits documenting the history of the Eifel railway.

Numerous items from more than one hundred and fifty years of Eifel railway history await you in the exhibition room. Oil cans, spanners, lamps, signal box equipment, track construction tools, uniforms, service caps and much more bear witness to the versatility of the railway professions. Our large exhibition room will be a little fuller before the opening. Some beautiful exhibits are still waiting to be presented in a suitable place. If necessary, the room can easily be converted into a lecture theatre. With the help of a screen embedded in the ceiling construction and the projector attached to the ceiling, we can present technically and content-wise sophisticated lectures to our audience.